Robotics is changing. The amount of software available (and needed) is growing. For better or worse, the glue that holds that software together, the middleware, has a big impact on its viability. YARP is a middleware for robotics, with over a decade’s continuous use on various humanoid robots. YARP was designed to help code survive changes, to easily experiment with new code and integrate with ...

Commentaries by Derrfuss and Mar (Derrfuss, J., Mar, R., 2009. Lost in localization: the need for a universal coordinate database. Neuroimage.) and Nielsen (Nielsen, F.A., 2009. Lost in localization: a solution with neuroinformatics 2.0? Neuroimage.) outline the need for a universal coordinate database and some possible approaches to creating one. I highlight the issue of minimal or maximal dat...

How does the dimension of time contribute to the constitution of society? This is a significant issue in the realm of social ontology. In this paper, the author attempts to engage a dialogue between Buddhist Middle Way philosophy and sociological theory in order to have a better understanding of the emptiness of time as well as society, and thereby reconsider the dependent co-arising of both ti...

This paper presents the argument that the use of wikis in a learning environment involves a different way of thinking, learning and knowing than perhaps many practitioners are familiar with. In particular, wikis foster collaborative, egalitarian learning that is designed to foster group interaction instead of just individual performance. Moreover, wiki based learning involves community ideals a...