Wisdom lies in extraction of good from new and old. Wisdom alone produces a society of wise men unable to leave their caves. Technology alone produces a society ruled by cold, despotic facts. A proper combination of wisdom and technology can produce the good life. That requires recognition of our ambivalence toward technology, a move away from our superspecialization of technologists and nontec...

This paper is an attempt to look at friluftsliv through the glasses of the experience society and some of the experience theory adapted from the experience economy. Identifying the basic experiences, slow, flow and peak experiences as central to friluftsliv and identifying that today’s society is constituted by several generations differing in their values and world views, this paper proposes a...

The database theory community, centered around the PODS (Principles of Database Systems) conference has had a long-term interest in logic as a way to represent “data, ” “information,” and “knowledge” (take your pick on the term it boils down to facts or atoms and rules, usually Horn clauses). The approach of this community has been “slow and steady,” preferring to build up carefully from simple...

Building a web-scale knowledge graph, which captures information about entities and the relationships between them, represents a formidable challenge. While many largescale information extraction systems operate on web corpora, the candidate facts they produce are noisy and incomplete. To remove noise and infer missing information in the knowledge graph, we propose knowledge graph identificatio...

In this work, we leverage the linear algebraic structure of distributed word representations to automatically extend knowledge bases and allow a machine to learn new facts about the world. Our goal is to extract structured facts from corpora in a simpler manner, without applying classifiers or patterns, and using only the co-occurrence statistics of words. We demonstrate that the linear algebra...

Disjunctive deductive databases (DDDBs) can capture indeenite information, i.e., imprecise or partial knowledge, of the real world. In this paper we present a method for horizontally fragmenting a DDDB based on the minimal-model forest approach. A minimal-model forest of a DDDB D is a collection of minimal-model trees of D such that each tree represents a set of facts that is disjoint from the ...

Geographic regions (henceforth, regions for short) are spatially extended pieces of (near) earth surface that share some aspect of similarity across their extents. The most fundamental aspect of similarity shared within a region is "locational similarity"-proximity. But regions nearly always share common thematic content or activity too. That is, regions are defined not just spatially but accor...

introduction: a keratocystic odontogenic tumor is a benign intra-bone mass originating from dental lamina or its residue. it represents 2–11% of jaw cysts, and has a slow but aggressive growth. the evaluation of molecular characteristics, immunohistochemistry, and genetic expression currently have no established classification regarding the evolution and pathophysiologic pattern of these lesion...