What would it be like to be IBM’s computer, Watson?

What definition of information would be emancipatory one?

Background and Aim: Human-information interaction, either in every day life or in research approaches, depends on pre-assumptions about “what information is”. Sometimes this pre-assumptions become axiomtic in a way that we must return to primary concerns about them to explore new social phenomenas. Information as an object is one of pre-assumptions. In this paper, the mentioned pre-assumptions ...

What Would You like to Be When You Grow Up?

Genetic background of Brugada syndrome is more complex than what we would like it to be!

Brugada syndrome (BrS) has been named after the description of the disease made by the Brugada brothers in 1992. BrS is clinically characterized by arrhythmic events, in particular ventricular fibrillation, resulting in syncope and sudden cardiac arrest mainly in middle-aged men. The ECG shows a peculiar down-sloping elevation of the ST segment in the right pre-cordial ECG leads with inversion ...

Would It Be Possible to Have Two Corresponding Authors for One Article?

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، دی 1398،       آیا می‌توان دو نویسنده مسئول برای یک مقاله داشت؟   Would It Be Possible to Have Two Corresponding Authors for One Article?     محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   اخیراً در کارگاه مقاله نویسی که برای اعضاء هیئت علمی یکی از دانشگاه‌های علوم پزشکی کشور برگزار کردم، سؤال یکی از شرکت کنندگان این بود که " آیا...

What would a Wittgensteinian computational linguistics be like

The paper tries to relate Wittgenstein’s later writings about language with the history and content of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular, its sub-area normally called Computational Linguistics, or Natural Language Processing. It argues that the shift, since 1990, from rule-driven approaches to computational language and logic, associated with traditional AI and the linguistics of ...