From: VideoLectures on Tue, Dec 14 2010 9:55 AM

English: Dr Türk pointed to the main challenges to democracy today. He opened by saying that in recent decades democracy has become the preferred form of governance, and that this process is likely to continue in the future. Democracy is an expression of deep aspirations of people to live in fre...

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From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 11 2010 8:52 AM

Professor Noam Chomsky reflected on: His early personal exposure to anarchism and activism through people we wouldn’t today call ‘intellectuals’, but the insight of ‘everyday people’ The crushing of liberation ventures by “fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracies” and the “miraculous sympathy...

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From: VideoLectures on Thu, Dec 09 2010 9:18 AM

Principles from nature-inspired selforganization can help to attack the massive scalability challenges in future internet infrastructures. We researched into ant-like mechanisms for clustering semantic information. We outline algorithms to store related information within clusters to facilitate e...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Dec 09 2010 9:18 AM

While the question in the title has remained unanswered for thousands of years, it is perhaps easier to address the apparently similar question: "What is intelligence for?" We take a pragmatic approach to intelligent behavior, and we examine systems that can pursue goals in their environment, us...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Dec 09 2010 9:18 AM

The Social Semantic Desktop, defines a user’s personal information environment as a source and end-point of the Semantic Web: Knowledge workers comprehensively express their information and data with respect to their own conceptualizations. This covers the aspects of social semantics and meta-da...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Dec 09 2010 9:18 AM

Emergent semantics refers to a set of principles and techniques analyzing the evolution of decentralized semantic structures in large scale distributed information systems. Emergent semantics approaches model the semantics of a distributed system as an ensemble of relationships between syntactic ...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Dec 08 2010 7:15 AM

English: Over the past few decades information design has been in transition—moving from the creation of mainly paper-based communications to today’s mix of paper and electronic artifacts. Information designers’ repertoire must now include visual and verbal strategies for the Web. This shift in m...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 04 2010 9:47 PM

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In the last few years, how robots operate in the world has advanced considerably. Examples include the autonomous vehicles in the DARPA Grand Challenges and Urban Challenge, the considerable work in robot mapping, and the growing interest in home and service robots. However, these example techno...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 04 2010 9:46 PM

In the last few years, how robots operate in the world has advanced considerably. Examples include the autonomous vehicles in the DARPA Grand Challenges and Urban Challenge, the considerable work in robot mapping, and the growing interest in home and service robots. However, these example techno...

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