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Month: February 2013

  • Call: 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2013)

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    10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2013) 26-28 August 2013, Coral Beach Conference Hotel and Resort Paphos, Cyprus http://mobiwis2013.cs.ucy.ac.cy CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) aims to advance the state of the art in scientific and practical research on mobile Web and information systems. It provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and the public sector in an effort to disseminate latest research results and to share knowledge and experiences regarding tools, techniques, technologies, models, and methodologies that lead to better information and service provisioning in the mobile…

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  • We’re falling in love with our phones

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    [From The Huffington Post; see also “Artificial Artificial Intelligence (And Flirting Via Committee)” also at The Huffington Post] We’re Falling In Love With Our Phones Bianca Bosker, Executive Tech Editor, The Huffington Post Posted: 01/15/2013 Siri: humble assistant — and close friend? A survey of 1,000 cell phone owners commissioned by Nuance, a provider of voice recognition software, suggests that people are developing closer relationships with the virtual assistants on their smartphones. In the past decade, we’ve embraced software as a service. Will software as soulmate be next?…

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  • Call: Rethinking ‘Nature’ – Special issue of Teoria

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    «Teoria», 1/2014 Ripensare la ‘natura’/ Rethinking ‘Nature’ Guest Editor: Flavia Monceri Call for papers: The notion of nature is one of the most recurring, and perhaps questioned notions, in Western philosophy and the social sciences. Although its definition was never obvious, nature currently seems in need of a more radical rethinking, also due to the increasing relevance of research fields that compel to its revision. This is just the goal of the present issue of «Teoria», by means of collecting contribution coming not only from philosophical but also social, psychological, literary and artistic sciences, at the aim to provide a…

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  • Popular Science is building the telepresent robotic boss of the future

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    [From Popular Science, where the story includes an additional image and two videos] [Image: The Digital Embodiment Of Editor In Chief Jacob Ward Big on “tele-” but not so much on “presence.” Dan Nosowitz] Popular Science Is Building The Telepresent Robotic Boss Of The Future To overcome the physical distance between our New York offices and our editor in chief–who lives and works on the West Coast–Popular Science is exploring the cutting edge of telepresence technologies. By Clay Dillow Posted 01.28.2013 Earth circa 1993 was a radically different place. In roughly two decades, technology has completely reorganized our lives, our…

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