Clever COVID-19, Clever Citizens-98: Critical and Creative Reflections from Tehran, Toronto, and Sydney

CLEVER MATERIAL FOR CLEVER SENSORS Spider Mechanoreceptors

The importance of sensory information for the guidance of animal behavior is reflected by a fascinating wealth of sensory organs. These exhibit an enormous variety due to different evolutionary potentials and needs of individual species. All sensory organs and their neuronal pathways have to be tuned to the reception and perception of the biologically relevant stimulus patterns as they occur in...

Clever pigeons and another hypothesis

In general terms, Macphail's effort to reestablish the field of comparative psychology of intelligence is most praiseworthy. His book Brain and Intelligence in Vertebrates (Macphail1982) is no doubt a landmark in this previously derelict area. In recent years it has been our own objective, partly inspired by his book, to demonstrate that pigeons are more intelligent than generally 688 thought. ...

Clever searching for evidence.

Leading clever people.

In an economy driven by ideas and intellectual know-how, top executives recognize the importance of employing smart, highly creative people. But if clever people have one defining characteristic, it's that they do not want to be led. So what is a leader to do? The authors conducted more than 100 interviews with leaders and their clever people at major organizations such as PricewaterhouseCooper...

Clever Pac-man

In this paper we show how combining fuzzy sets and reinforcement learning a winning agent can be created for the popular Pac-man game. Key elements are the classification of the state into a few fuzzy classes that makes the problem manageable. Pac-man policy is defined in terms of fuzzy actions that are defuzzified to produce the actual Pac-man move. A few heuristics allow making the Pac-man st...