'Becoming a Different Me': Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and Transatlantic Sexual Stereotypes

Give me FREEDOM or...

Set Me Free , Give Me Degrees of Freedom

Computers and electronic products in general put heavy constraints on human-product interaction. These products demand people to adapt to their way of functioning instead of the other way around. In this paper we try to offer methods to free man from these constraints. To this aim we analyse the existing situation, and point to an approach we use in product design where man as a whole is taken ...

Axiomatisations of Weak Equivalences for De Simone Languages

Aceto, Bloom and Vaandrager proposed in ABV92] a procedure for generating a complete axiomatisation of strong bisimulation for process languages in the GSOS format. However, the choice operator +, which the procedure uses, as well as other auxiliary GSOS operators, which it introduces to obtain a nite axiomatisation, do not preserve many of weak equivalences. We propose a modiication of this pr...

Concreteness and Contraception: Beauvoir’s Second Sex and the Affordable Care Act

In this paper, I analyze Simone de Beauvoir’s goals for women expressed in The Second Sex and compare these goals to the opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Though the contraceptive mandate advances Beauvoir’s goal of concrete equality by supporting economic independence and recognizing women’s sexual freedom, there are social and political limitations to t...

Board Simone

Consolidated Enterprise IT solutions have proven to enhance business efficiency when significant fractions of local computing activities are migrating away from desktop PCs and departmental servers and are being integrated and packaged on the Web into “the computing cloud.” Whether referred to Grid, Utility or Cloud Computing, the idea is basically the same: instead of investing in and maintain...