Which Courts Should Try Persons Accused of Terrorism?

Which symbol grounding problem should we try to solve?

Floridi and Taddeo propose a condition of “zero semantic commitment” for solutions to the grounding problem, and a solution to it. I argue briefly that their condition cannot be fulfilled, not even by their own solution. After a look at Luc Steel’s very different competing suggestion, I suggest that we need to re-think what the problem is and what role the ‘goals’ in a system play in formulatin...

Bring Me Sunshine : Which parts of the business climate should public policy try to fix ?

This paper offers guidance to perplexed policymakers on how to draw practical lessons from the large and often confusing literature on the business climate and its role in economic development. We use the analogy of a doctor treating a patient, who must draw together information from the patient's subjective reports, from clinical studies of average patient responses to treatment, and from the ...

Legal Interrogation of Persons Accused or Suspected of Crime

Which Should We Try First? Ranking Information Resources through Query Classification

Users seeking information in distributed environments of large numbers of disparate information resources are often burdened with the task of repeating their queries for each and every resource. Invariably, some of the searched resources are more productive (yield more useful documents) than others, and it would undoubtedly be useful to try these resources first. If the environment is federated...

Careers. At least we should try.

LOOKING BACK over the years it is fairly obvious that there has been little or no career guidance in medicine. Apart from the odd chat with a senior often not much senior to the young graduate himself nothing was readily available to the newly qualified doctor about future prospects in the great variety of medical fields prospects, that is, of training needs facilities or vacancies. Yet little ...