Sense, Orientation, and World Creation

The Creation of Necessity: Making Sense of Cartesian Modality

دکارت در نوشته‌های کلامی خود، دو فرضیه‌ی گیج‌کنندۀ به ‌هم ‌پیوسته را به ‌پیش می‌برد: فرضیۀ1) خداوند آزادانه حقایق ازلی را می‌آفریند (یعنی آموزۀ خلقت)؛ فرضیۀ2) حقایق ازلی بالضروره صادق­اند. بنا به فرضیۀ نخست، خداوند آزادانه برمی‌گزیند که کدام قضایا ضروری باشد، کدام محتمل و کدام ممکن. اما آموزۀ خلقت دکارت قبول فرضیۀ دوم را دشوار می‌سازد، زیرا مستلزم آن است که خداوند می‌توانسته است ‌ــ با ایجاد مج...

Walt Disney World: Marxism and Myth Creation

Brane-World Creation and Black Holes

An inflating brane-world can be created from “nothing” together with its Anti-de Sitter (AdS) bulk. The resulting space-time has compact spatial sections bounded by the brane. During inflation, the continuum of KK modes is separated from the massless zero mode by the gap m = (3/2)H, where H is the Hubble rate. We consider the analog of the Nariai solution and argue that it describes pair produc...

Sense and Sensibility in a Pervasive World

The increasing popularity of location based social services such as Facebook Places, Foursquare and Google Latitude, solicits a new trend in fusing social networking with real world sensing. The availability of a wide range of sensing technologies in our everyday environment presents an opportunity to further enrich social networking systems with fine-grained real-world sensing. However, the in...

Towards Real World Object Orientation

Creating physical user interfaces is by no means an easy task. It involves efforts from many areas like HCI, design, engineering and application developers. However, writing programs that use physical devices is often hindered by the gap between them and the programming environment that developers are used to. We suggest to simplify programming and working with devices like small embedded syste...