US plans for weapons labs 'have ignored alternatives'

Why have Pneumocystis carinii trophozoites been ignored?

Does Java Have Alternatives?

At first sight, Java’s position as the de-facto standard for portable software distributed across the Internet seems virtually unassailable. Interestingly enough, however, it is surprisingly simple to provide alternatives to the Java platform, using the plug-in mechanism supported by the major commercial World Wide Web browsers. We are currently developing a comprehensive infrastructure for mob...

US rethinks forestry plans

A raging inferno consumed more than 160,000 acres of national forest north of Los Angeles earlier this month, causing extensive property damage and killing two firefighters before it was eventually snuffed. Fighting these so-called megafires that burn on public lands is the purview of the National Forest Service, and on August 14 th , Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture,...

Situated Agents Can Have Plans

Much of our everyday activity is not made up of solving isolated problems with single clear-cut goals, but rather dedicated to the ongoing maintenance of many goals or policies such as eating when hungry and maintaining a comfortable personal space. Furthermore, in many complex, dynamic worlds, an agent must maintain many goals at the same time and be able to act quickly and flexibly, because s...

Electoral College Alternatives and US Presidential Elections

The President of the United States is chosen directly by the Electoral College, although indirectly the citizens select the President. Different states currently employ two systems of electoral-vote allocation under the Electoral College framework: the widely adopted winner-take-all system and the system adopted by Maine and Nebraska. The properties of these two systems are analyzed against the...