ARE WE INTERESTING TO EACH OTHER?

We are very much like each other

QCD : how we can help each other

A brief summary is given of the outstanding issues in experimental work on the strong interaction at collider experiments. I focus particularly on those areas where more than one collider can address the same issue. (Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version; see www.iop.org)

Moral Arguments in the Debate over Nanotechnologies: Are We Talking Past Each Other?

How are we to understand the fact that the philosophical debate over nanotechnologies has been reduced to a clash of seemingly preprogrammed arguments and counterarguments that paralyzes all rational discussion of the ultimate ethical question of social acceptability in matters of nanotechnological development? With this issue as its starting point, the study reported on here, intended to furth...

Why we understand each other: the role of the context

This short paper addresses the problem of mutual understanding from an anthropomorphic point of view, highlighting the underlying basic mechanisms and principles. Then the paper extends the considerations form people to organizations showing that, when two organizations communicate for cooperation, a message usually transports only a fraction of the required knowledge. The greater part of knowl...

Are We Really Discovering “Interesting” Knowledge From Data?

This paper is a critical review of the literature on discovering comprehensible, interesting knowledge (or patterns) from data. The motivation for this review is that the majority of the literature focuses only on the problem of maximizing the accuracy of the discovered patterns, ignoring other important pattern-quality criteria that are user-oriented, such as comprehensibility and interestingn...