U niversity professors have seasons that, in certain neighborhoods in the vicinity of large research campuses such as where I live, loom even larger than those dictated by our planet's journey around the sun. Right now we are deeply entrenched in the one I call hunting seasonjob hunting, that is. It starts ramping up in early fall with a surge in postings for faculty positions and pilgrimages ...

My vintage cadillac sweeps through wrought iron gates and makes its way down the grand tree-lined avenue, a canopy of cool green above, with just a glimpse of golden stone in the distance. Then suddenly the building is revealed – a stunning Victorian Gothic façade, heavy oak doors, soaring towers and intricate gargoyles, all bathed in summer sunshine. I drive on past the original Jacobean Wing ...

Our primary medical training is second to none in the world and we leave our Alma Mater very well equipped medically, butwith no training in the administration of these services or of our personal life unless we have had an outside hobby which has filled this gap in our education. The College of General Practitioners has realized that this gap exists and over the years has been building up a se...

“O homes were very decorative, full of...pattern... color....The people used this as a means of brightening their life,” said Jacob Lawrence, attributing his love of vibrant color design to his youth in Harlem (1). When asked if anyone in his family was artistically inclined, he would say no, “It’s only in retrospect that I realized I was surrounded by art. You’d walk Seventh Avenue and look in...

In January 2017, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily barring entry of immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries to the United States. I am a U.S. citizen and do not belong to any of the banned countries. I was raised as a Muslim, but now identify as an atheist. In fact, many of my Muslim friends and family members who know about my apostasy think of me as a traitor and...

the sepah-salar complex, including the mosque and the school, has a set of qajar era architectural art including tile-work, painting, inscription, stucco, woodwork and carpentry. the complex was made and endowed by hossein khan, known as sepah-salar (1241-1298 a.h/ 1825- 1882 a.d). he employed the best and the most famous artists and architectures of his era using his own asset. the inscription...

Libraries are a permanent feature in the cultural history of the world. The earliest, being collections of clay tablets, date back to 2600 BC (1 ). Library buildings were features in early town planning, in towns such as the Hellenistic Pergamum in Anatolia (today’s Turkey) and Alexandria in Egypt (third to first centuries BC), both collections being widely famous in the ancient world. It is sa...

Mark Weiser described ubiquitous computing as, “invisible, everywhere computing that does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere.”[11] The EasyLiving project at Microsoft Research is focused on those aspects of ubiquitous computing that are relevant to smart environments, including work in distributed computing, geometric world modeling, computer vision, an...

When everyday objects become equipped with computation and sensors, it will be important to explore interaction techniques that rely on natural actions. We show examples of how non-accidental simultaneous movement of “smart” objects can be exploited as implicit interaction. Applications include implicit access control when opening a door and an automatic packing list creator. This principle of ...