ShapeShifting TV denotes an approach to interactive television programmes that can adapt during delivery to the preferences of the active viewers. ShapeShifting TV is based on a declarative language called Narrative Structure Language (NSL) and is accompanied by a set of genre and production independent authoring and delivery tools. ShapeShifting TV was validated via a number of productions. A ...

According to the World Health Organization reporting office, approximately 52 million human beings died in 1996, including 17 million from infectious diseases, 14 million from cardiovascular conditions, and 6 million from cancer. In 1990 also, there were 17 million deaths by infection. Today, compared to 10 years ago, we have fewer respiratory and diarrheal diseases, less measles, but more tube...

The standard model of fundamental interactions is remarkably successful, but it leaves an unfinished agenda. Several major questions seem ripe for exploration in the near future. I anticipate that the coming decade will be a Golden Age of discovery in fundamental physics. Based on an invited talk at SUSY07, Karlsruhe, July 2007. This paper follows the talk closely.