Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Do Androids dream of Opportunistic Applications?

THE next to come urban scenario will be pervasively equipped with a huge of road side hotspots and Wi-Fi access points enabling profiled and mobile users to access the desired contents with some logical or functional scope. Today, the most part of the mobile computing services are rigidly server-centric: imagine that Alice meets Bob and wants to share some content with him. With a traditional a...

Scientific Issues concerning Androids Scientific Issues concerning Androids

In the development of humanoids, both the appearance and behavior of the robots are significant issues. However, designing the robot’s appearance, especially to give it a humanoid one, was always a role of industrial designers. To tackle the problem of appearance and behavior, two approaches are necessary: one from robotics and the other from cognitive science. The approach from robotics tries ...

Constructing Sentient Androids

Generally the simplistic distinction between a humanoid robot, a computerized machine capable of replicating a variety of complex human functions automatically, and an android is one of appearance; an android is meant to look and act like a human being even to the extent of being indistinguishable. While one day a yottaflop (10 bits per second) hyper-supercomputer could have a sufficient hologr...

Semantic reasoning on mobile devices: Do Androids dream of efficient reasoners?

The massive spread of mobile computing in our daily lives has attracted a huge community of mobile application (apps) developers. These developers can take advantage of the benefits of semantic technologies (such as knowledge sharing and reusing, and knowledge decoupling) to enhance their applications. Moreover, the use of semantic reasoners would enable them to create more intelligent applicat...