The Reality Helmet is a wearable device providing a novel form of interactive experience, in which the user’s vision and hearing is completely shielded off from the world. Video and sounds are sampled by the Helmet from the surrounding environment, but through computer processing sounds are presented to the wearer as vision and sights are turned into a soundscape. The result is a radical transf...

In this document, we explore the Philosophy of Data (PoD) and its roots amongst other disciplines. The Philosophy of Data seeks to understand the nature of data through experimental philosophy. In order to understand the many different ontologies of data, information, and knowledge out there, this paper will describe part of the problem space in terms of other disciplines and make an argument f...

Mobile applications, commonly known as apps, have become a significant line of business for IS commerce. There is an App for that! With this slogan Apple suggests that there is app out there for many uses and indeed for every circumstance within our everyday life. However, there is a lack of knowledge of what business models prevail in successfully developing and capitalizing an app. This paper...

In science we routinely assume that whatever theory we may have about them, facts themselves are things that are—out there in the world to be observed. However, it has become rather standard for historians and philosophers to assert instead that “facts” are human constructs understandable only in a particular historical or societal context. They note that scientists typically argue over very di...

The purpose of this article is to make precise some of the results we have reported in talks in Bedlevo (Sep. 2000) and Krakow (July 2001). We have pointed out there that for any algebra having a PBW-type basis, it is possible to construct a ⋆-product. At the conference this has also been made pertinent by J. Wess in his talk and R. Twarock also uses Bergman’s Diamond Lemma . On the other hand,...

Guillermo Calvo is one of the most influential economists in the field of international macroeconomics of the past 30 years. He has produced seminal articles in every area of macroeconomics and international economics that he has worked on, including his early classic articles on capacity utilization and time inconsistency, his 1980’s works on efficiency wages, price stickiness, and policy cred...

This panel focuses on the industrial vision for the future of computer architecture research. The field of computer architecture is in critical need for focus, perhaps now more than ever. The underlying technology is presenting significant roadblocks for next generation designs. The applications that the world wants seem to be out of synch with mainstream research. The potential impact of our w...

Right after its introduction, GSM security was reviewed in a mostly theoretical way, uncovering some major security issues. However, the costs and complexity of the required hardware prohibited most people from exploiting these weaknesses in practice and GSM became one of the most successful technologies ever introduced. However, there is an enormous amount of mobile enabled equipment out there...

140 For those of us who’ve been told that we’ve got a bit of a heart problem, don’t think it’s the end of the world. Don’t think it’s the end of the world – it’s not the end of the world. So, you’ve got a heart problem – so what! You live with it, and try and cope with the situation. But don’t make yourself any worse by saying ‘oh dear, I’ve got a crook heart, I can’t get out there and mow the ...

There is a multitude of licenses out there for a software developer to choose from, but a lot of programmers would prefer to not have to have a legal degree in order to understand them and would rather just have their code out in the public being used. This paper examines a few of the more popular and common software licenses available and compares their conditions from the perspective that a d...