The goal of this column this time was to address major scientific issues and propose novel scientific methods for doing the same thing under different names. However, it turned ou...
Research on virtual environments has provided insights into the experience of presence (or being there) and copresence (being there together). Several dimensions of this experienc...
Various formally valid counterexamples have been adduced against the Humean dictum that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is." There are formal rebuttals--s...
This paper is talks about the critical role that Jim Gray played in the creation of the WorldWide Telescope software. Contrary to what you might think it wasn't his database ...
Major computer companies and government agencies are adopting Web Services (WS) technology. Web services must ensure interoperability and security, and be reliable and trustworthy...