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Infectious Agents and Autophagy: Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose

Sometimes You Need a Little Intelligence, Sometimes You Need a Lot

Over the last fifteen years, we have built over a dozen different applications in many domains where the user can define behaviors by demonstration. In some of these, the system uses sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms so that complex behavior can be inferred from a few examples. In other systems, the user must provide the full specification, and the examples are primarily use...

Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn – Success Factors in Reward-Based Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has enabled various entrepreneurs, artists and other individuals and organisations to bring projects to life. Despite all success stories, 63% of all projects initiated on the biggest crowdfunding platform kickstarter.com and 46% of all projects initiated on the biggest German crowdfunding platform startnext.com, do not raise enough money to be realised. This study investigates whi...

Object detection and basic-level categorization: sometimes you know it is there before you know what it is.

A tight temporal coupling between object detection (is an object there?) and object categorization (what kind of object is it?) has recently been reported (Grill-Spector & Kanwisher, 2005), suggesting that image segmentation into different objects and categorization of those objects at the basic level may be the very same mechanism. In the present work, we decoupled the time course of detection...

Speed Reading: You Can't Always Get What You Want, but Can You Sometimes Get What You Need?