Editorial: Happy Reading!

Happy reading ! Interview with Patrick Grossetete IPv 6 Product Manager for Cisco Systems IOS Technologies segment Editorial IST - 2001 - 32063

IPv6, the IETF-designed protocol set dubbed the 'next generation' of IP, is designed as an update of the current version, IPv4, which it is said is beginning to show its age. Much of the vaunted improvement over IPv4 is attributable to the simple fact that IPv6 offers a virtually infinite number of Internet addresses from approximately 200 million assignable IPv4 addresses to countless trillion...

Guest Editorial: Reading literature and literature reviews

Most scholars would probably agree that literature reviews are key building blocks of good research articles in Library and Information science (LIS). Yet current practices in conducting these reviews may not necessarily be conducive to innovative research because they emphasize the science of the process rather than the art. At the beginning of the 21st century, the act of doing a literature r...

Editorial: Bridging Reading Aloud and Speech Production

The study of how people can speak or read started from the beginning of the modern era of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics (e.g., Lichteim, 1885; Huey, 1898) and continues to this day. However, the two lines of research—speech production and reading aloud—have followed two separate and parallel paths: While they both concern language production, they seldom meet. Both have produced detail...

Editorial: Short Term Memory, Morphology, and Reading

Happy Chatbot, Happy User

We compare our own embodied conversational agent (ECA) scheme, BotCom, with seven other complex Internet-based ECAs according to recentlypublished information about them, and highlight some important attributes that have received little attention in the construction of realistic ECAs. BotCom incorporates the use of emotions, humor and complex information services. We cover issues that are likel...