Behind Gershwin's Eyes

What’s behind meaning?

The paper addresses the main questions to be dealt with by any semantic theory which is committed to provide an explanation of how meaning is possible. On one side the paper argues that the resources provided by the development of mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, cognitive psychology, and general linguistics in the 20th Century, however indispensable to investigate the structur...

behind the scenes of surrogacy

Evolving eyes.

Despite the incredible diversity among extant eyes, laws of physics constrain how light can be collected resulting in only eight known optical systems in animal eyes. Surprisingly, all animal eyes share a common molecular strategy using opsin for catching photons, but there are a diverse collection of mechanisms with proteins unrelated to each other used to focus light for vision. However, opsi...

Eyes East

Last November I visited Japan for the first time and was lucky enough to visit individual labs at four different universities. As I talked with my hosts and their students I was struck by the differences between the scientific cultures of Japan and the United States. At its best, American science is all about the triumph of excellence in the land of opportunity, with 27-year-old assistant profe...

Sentimental Eyes!

A closer look at how users perform search is needed in order to best design a more efficient next generation sentiment search engine and understand fundamental behaviours involved in online review/opinion search processes. The paper proposes utilizing personalized search, eye tracking and sentiment analysis for better understanding of end-user behavioural characteristics while making a judgemen...