New directions in nanoscience: new challenges for surface analysis

Tactile Sensing: New Directions, New Challenges

Over the past three decades, tactile sensing has developed into a sophisticated technology. There has been a longstanding and widely held expectation that tactile sensors would have a major impact on industrial robotics and automation. However, this promise has not been realized, and few, if any, tactile sensors can be found in factorybased applications. Has this technology failed to deliver it...

PLS: New Directions, New Challenges, and New Understandings

New directions in research bring new clinical challenges.

Charles H. Dankmeyer Jr, CPO Sputnik! On October 4th, 1957, Russia launched the first satellite into successful space orbit. I was 13 years old and remember how that event rocked America. Between playing ball and riding bicycles, my friends and I were enjoying the pleasure of watching the older boys hot rod their old Fords and Chevys. Listening to the sweet sounds of Hollywood pipes sing their ...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: New Challenges and Directions

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is the interdisciplinary field that investigates how to devise educational systems that provide instruction tailored to the needs of individual learners, as many good teachers do. Research in this field has successfully delivered techniques and systems that provide adaptive support for student problem solving in a variety of domains. There are, however, other ...

New Directions in Psycho-Analysis

Contemporary psycho-analysis owes a very great deal to the ideas formulated by Mrs. Klein. To mark the occasion of her seventieth birthday, the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis published a special edition containing a collection of essays written by her colleagues and pupils and dedicated to her. This collection, published in 1952, revised, augmented by several new essays including two ...