Marsh mallow grows in Britain

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

Rift grows in GM debate

Although first generation genetically modified crops are now the norm in many parts of the world, researchers have failed to convince the public of their benefits and lack of environmental damage in other regions, including Europe. In spite of increasing hopes for the potential in GM crops, particularly in the wake of this year's hike in foodstuff prices, Britain's Prince Charles mounted a stro...

Introductory Essay of COIN@MALLOW'009

The COIN (Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms) workshop series began in 2005 with a single satellite workshop at AAMAS in Utrecht [1]. Since then two meetings have been organized each year, with one typically attached to AAMAS and the other to another major conference in a different continent from AAMAS [2], [3], [4]. This year, exceptionally, a third event is being held in supp...

Introductory Essay of MALLOW-AWESOME'009

Following the success of the previous edition held in Durham in 2007, MALLOW-AWESOME’009 wants to stimulate discussion among researchers working on Agents, Web Services, and Ontologies, in order to help the identification and the definition of Methodologies for integrating them. The realisation of distributed, open, dynamic, and heterogeneous software systems is, in fact, a challenge that invol...

Bioethics Grows Up

W hen I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could not assume that any of my students had ever read anything by a bioethicist or about bioethics. The key institutions ...