tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique  

Ingvar Johansson

Computer images are “emergent wholes” in relation to their pixels. This may seem to suggest that there cannot be any valid formal inference rule connecting such images with their constituents. However, there is one; one that applies to many kinds of emerg... see more

Raymundo Morado, Francisco Hernández-Quiroz

Turing machines as a model of intelligence can be motivated under some assumptions, both mathematical and philosophical. Some of these are about the possibility, the necessity, and the limits of representing problem solving by mechanical means. The assump... see more

W. A. Cameron

In language, humans describe their world and can construct a narrative of their own becoming. But the concepts within which the emergence of linguistic man may be described are, themselves, contingent on thee accidents of that emergence. The human world i... see more

Mark S. Dougherty, Sofi Hemgren Dougherty, Jerker Westin

This paper explores certain issues concerning the Turing test; non-termination, asymmetry and the need for a control experiment. A standard diagonalisation argument to show the non-computability of AI is extended to yields a socalled “April fool Turing te... see more

Jenny Eriksson Lundström, Stefan Karlsson

Today's powerful computers have increasingly more resources available, which can be used for incorporating more sophisticated AI into home applications like computer games. The perhaps obvious way of using AI to enhance the experience of a game is to make... see more

Lars-Erik Janlert

Information technology warps information space, but there are limits to the availability of information. Information distance is introduced to begin investigate the shape of information space, which is very much needed. The concept of availability profile... see more

Teresa Numerico

We can find the first anticipation of the World Wide Web hypertextual structure in Bush paper of 1945, where he described a “selection” and storage machine called the Memex, capable of keeping the useful information of a user and connecting it to other re... see more

Stefania Bandini, Gianluca Colombo, Alessandro Mosca, Matteo Palmonari

Pervasive Computing systems are characterized by possibly mobile components distributed in the environment and are devoted to collect, process and manage information in order to support users in different kind of activities. High-level correlation of info... see more

Colin T. A. Schmidt

Attaching the robotic body to the artificial brain (the computer) is a poor way of going about constructing autonomous mentality. It represents nothing more than an extension of the brain and succumbs to using experience as a confirmation of the scientist... see more

Saul Traiger

This paper explores the the justificatory status of etestimony, the electronic transmission of testimony through such electronic media as e-mail, the web, instant messaging, and file-sharing. I argue that e-testimony introduces complexities in justificati... see more

Jordi Vallverdú

AI is a multidisciplinary activity that involves specialists from several fields, and we can say that the aim of science, and AI science, is solving problems. AI and computer sciences are been creating a new kind of making science, that we can call in sil... see more

Gérard Battail

The conservation of genetic information through the ages can not be explained unless one assumes the existence of genomic error-correcting codes, our main hypothesis. Shielding by phenotypic membranes does not protect the genomes against radiations and th... see more

Emanuele Bardone, Lorenzo Magnani

Recently the impressive growth of the Web, and the Internet in general, has been considered as a promise that may both challenge and boost our representation of democratic institutions. It is well known that modern democracies are based on the possibility... see more

Dan L. Burk, Tarleton Gillespie

Digital rights management technology, or DRM, provides self-enforcing technical exclusion from pre-determined uses of informational works. Such technical exclusion may supplement or even supplant intellectual property laws. The deployment of DRM has been ... see more

Stig Larsson

Product development efficiency and effectiveness is depending on a process being well executed. The actions of individuals included in the processes are influenced by the ethical and moral orientations that have been selected by each individual, whether t... see more

Laura Pana

We discuss the thesis that the implementation of a moral code in the behaviour of artificial intelligent systems needs a specific form of human and artificial intelligence, not just an abstract intelligence. We present intelligence as a system with an int... see more

Christian Cote

We propose a methodology to model the information structure for its extraction from any medical text. We experiment this extraction in a corpus that represents the information system of a specific professional activity in the hospital pharmacy. the inform... see more

Pascale Sébillot

One relevant way to structure the domain of lexical knowledge (e.g. relations between lexical units) acquisition from corpora is to oppose numerical versus symbolic techniques. Numerical approaches of acquisition exploit the frequential aspect of data, ha... see more

Huma Shah

Artificial linguistic Internet computer entity, A.L.I.C.E. is considered head and shoulders above other artificial conversational entities, an ACE in digitaland. Three times winner of Loebner’s annual instantiation of Turing’s Test for machine intelligenc... see more

Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Kieron O’Hara

There are increasing efforts directed at providing formal frameworks to consolidate the widening net of terms and relations used in medical practice. While there are many reasons for this, the need for standardisation of protocol and terminology is critic... see more

Corinna Bath

The dichotomy of the technical and the social is strongly gendered in western thought. Therefore, potential dissolutions of the socio-technical divide have always been a source of hope from a feminist point of view. The starting point of this contribution... see more

Christina Björkman, Lena Trojer

The epistemological basis for computer science (CS), on which research and education as well as development of applications are founded, are fundamental for its production of knowledge. In this paper we raise the issue of how gender research developed wit... see more

Bertil Rolf

Is it possible to supply strong empirical evidence for or against the efficacy of reasoning software? There is a paradox concerning tests of reasoning software. On the one hand, acceptance of such software is slow although overwhelming arguments speak for... see more