Clark Dunham, Sometime Editor of the Burlington Hawk-Eye

Hawk-Eye: Augmented reality in sports broadcasting and officiating

Hawk-Eye is the camera based ball-tracking system that enables players to challenge line-calling decisions on the courts of major tennis events such as Wimbledon. Paul McIlroy uncovers the machine vision technology behind the verdict on the big screen. He describes how the International Tennis Federation tested and accredited the system as an officiating aid and the technical challenges overcom...

PSYCHIATRIC MANAGEMENT OF PAIN (M CLARK, SECTION EDITOR) Chronic Pain and Suicide: Understanding the Association

Chronic pain conditions are associated with an elevated risk for suicide. Of particular importance is the question of why pain conditions might be linked to increased suicide risk. We discuss the association between chronic pain and psychological pain, particularly in the context of depression, and the use of suicide as an attempt to escape from what is perceived as unbearable suffering. We als...

Somebody, Sometime, Somewhere, Something

The success of the Web and of portable devices has made popular the idea that any information could be made available to anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Other paradigms are taking off within the ubiquitous computing solutions. This invited paper identifies some of these paradigms, focusing on the more innovative ones in terms of information services. In particular, broadcast-based and location-...

Letter of the Editor

Extending DL-Lite Sometime in the Future

Many types of temporalised description logics (DLs) have been suggested and investigated in the past 15 years. We refer the reader to the survey papers and monograph [9, 14, 3, 16], where the history of the development of both interval and point-based temporal extensions of DLs is discussed in full detail. Temporal operators can be applied in various ways in order to introduce a temporal dimens...