What Should You Always Look for When You See a Congenital Abnormality?

What You See is Not Always What You Sign

A fundamental aspect of computer systems is that displaying and signing a digital document are separate and unlinked processes. In addition, the same digital document can be displayed differently on different systems. As a consequence it is difficult to determine what exactly has been signed, both from the signer’s and the verifier’s point of view. This paper discusses how confusion about the m...

What should you do when you misinform the laboratory results?

The author had an opportunity to address, in a classroom discussion, one of his student’s questions on what a physician should do if he/she misinforms a patient about laboratory results. This question then became a discussion topic in the classroom. The two main answers from this discussion were: 1. Most of the students tried to convince the patient of the necessity of re-examination and asked ...

What you see is what you need.

We studied the role of attention and task demands for implicit change detection. Subjects engaged in an object sorting task performed in a virtual reality environment, where we changed the properties of an object while the subject was manipulating it. The task assures that subjects are looking at the changed object immediately before and after the change. Our results demonstrate that in this si...

What you see/what you get.

What You See Is What You Get

This paper corrects three widely held misunderstandings about Maxent when used in common sense reasoning: That it is language dependent; That it produces objective facts; That it subsumes, and so is at least as untenable as, the paradox-ridden Principle of Insufficient Reason.