The Tempest (2020) by Creation Theatre: Live in your Living Room

What your body and your living room tell my agent

This paper proposes a class of software agent architectures capable of playing some of beneficial roles embodiment accomplishes in living beings. These are component based architectures including sensors, actuators, emotion eliciting mechanisms and action control mechanisms. These architectures through their yellow pages and log services, which maintain updated information about the agent body ...

Preface Workshop Future TV: Adaptive instruction in your living room

The integration of engaging TV style content with the individualization and ‘intelligent’ content management offered by techniques from AI has the potential to provide learning environments that are both highly motivating and educationally sound. This paper describes why the area of language learning would be a particularly appropriate domain for interactive educational television to focus on. ...

Redeveloping the Canadian operating room for 2020.

I this issue, Birch and colleagues assess the feasibility of introducing advanced minimally invasive surgery (MIS) into surgical practice. This thoughtful summary of the obstacles perceived by surgeons to limit introduction of advanced MIS identifies the priority to commit to an appropriate training model for surgeons and their teams. Indeed, many of our surgical colleagues have shown altruism ...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

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