Between Reality and Society: Lee Kuohsiu’s Far Away from Home

A Home Away from Home

Someday, many people hope, humans will travel to Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has plans for a mission to the planet in the 2030s, and entrepreneur Elon Musk says his SpaceX company can do it by 2024. If people succeed in setting up an outpost on Mars, they’ll need to build someplace for astronauts to live, sleep, and work. But hauling building materials acro...

A home away from home: the patient-centered health home.

Not Far Away from Home: A Relational Distance-Based Approach to Understanding Images of Houses

Augmenting vision systems with high-level knowledge and reasoning can improve lower-level vision processes, such as object detection, with richer and more structured information. In this paper we tackle the problem of delimiting conceptual elements of street views based on spatial relations between lowerlevel components, e.g. the element ‘house’ is composed of windows and a door in a spatial ar...

Living With “Man’s Fate” Away From Home

Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the dominant culture and medical system were foreign to him. Here, he gives an account of his physical...

Optimal IR: How Far Away?

There exists a gap between what a human user wants in mind and what (s)he could get from the information retrieval (IR) systems by his/her queries. We say an IR system is perfect if it could always provide the users with what they want in their minds if available in corpus, and optimal if it could present to the users what it finds in an optimal way. In this paper, we empirically study how far ...