In-development assessment of speech synthesis is inevitable in industrial contexts. However, there is a strong need to minimize expenditure. Therefore, we present an evaluation procedure which involves considerably less time than other evaluations and may be carried out under laboratory conditions. Furthermore, we compare groups of raters which differ with respect to their competence concerning...

This paper considers the survivability requirement for production operating systems that underlie typical information systems. Since economic incentives give competitive advantages to imperfect and therefore insecure software, it seems inevitable to consider retrofitting some form of security to existing systems. This approach has long been anathema in the security community. We outline the pra...

Concomitantly with recent advances in speech coding, recognition and production, parallel computer systems are now commonplace delivenng raw computing power measured in hundreds of MIPS and Megaflops. It seems inevitable that within the next decade or so, gigaflop parallel processors will be achievable at modest cost. Indeed, gigaflops per cubic foot is now becoming a standard of measure for pa...

Other psychologists, for example E. Durbin and John Bowlby, believe that aggression is characteristic of man by nature. It gives rise to sublimation projection when a person turns their dissatisfaction into prejudice hatred other races, religions, nations or ideologies