Honestly Speaking, How Close are We to HAL 9000?

Autonomic Administration: HAL 9000 Meets Gene Roddenberry

Keynote address: the HAL 9000 computer and the vision of 2001: a space odyssey

Highly Autonomous Systems Workshop

symposia in 1997 honoring the fictional birth year of the HAL-9000 computer. The other two were held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Illinois at Urbana, which is also the fictional birthplace of HAL. Our meeting was distinguished by reports on actual ongoing work toward building intelligent spacecraft. Representing government were attendees from the Nati...

Inequality, Lobbying, and Resource Allocation

This paper describes how wealth inequality may distort public resource allocation. A government seeks to allocate limited resources to productive sectors, but sectoral productivity is privately known by agents with vested interests in those sectors. They lobby the government for preferential treatment. The government—even if it honestly seeks to maximize economic efficiency—may be confounded by...

بررسی عوامل خطر ناراحتی‌های اسکلتی-عضلانی با روش‌های HAL- TLV، SIو OCRA و مقایسه روش‌ها با یکدیگر

Background and Objective: Most of employees in the developing countries are exposed to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to performing repetitive manual activities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders by HAL-TLV, SI and OCRA methods and comparison with others. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive study conducted on 147 workers...