"I hate Communism." So what?

I hate you! Disinhibition with virtual partners

This paper presents a descriptive lexical analysis of spontaneous conversations between users and the 2005 Loebner prize winning chatterbot, Jabberwacky. The study was motivated in part by the suspicion that evidence in support of the Media Equation, especially in the field of conversational agents, was supported by incomplete data; too often omitted in its purview is the occurrence of unsavour...

So what ’ s so special about spatial ?

Geospatial information can act as a thread that can be used to integrate information from heterogeneous sources. It does so by exploiting common location information components that often exist across different domains. As such it has the potential to be a valuable resource in the implementation of the Semantic Web. This paper examines the challenges of adding a geospatial component to the Web,...

The converged appliance: "I love it... but I hate it"

The last decade has seen convergence marketed as one response to the challenge of users having to juggle an increasingly wide array of digital services, technologies and media. Key to this view is the assumption that by converging computer devices, and digital media, the value of technology for end users can be maximised whilst the overheads involved in purchasing, maintaining and orchestrating...

Software Analytics: So What?

In thIs specIal issue of IEEE Software , we invited submissions that reflected the benefits (and drawbacks) of software analytics. The response was overwhelming. Software analytics is an area of explosive growth, and we had so many excellent submissions that we had to split this special issue into two volumes—you'll see even more content in the September/Octo-ber issue. We divided the articles ...

I S the Imagery Debate over ? I F so , What Was It about ?