We propose a surveillance framework (SECRETS : SECure Real-time ElecTronic Surveillance) that is a practical solution to safeguarding sensitive physical facilities like command and control centers, missile storage facilities of a military base, traffic controller units of airports and other high-volume public areas by providing controlled secure distribution of live multimedia data recorded on-...

P tell stories. All over the world, and probably for as long as they have existed, people invent characters and recount their ,ctitious exploits. This apparent frivolity is no small matter in human affairs. If one were to tally the number of hours and resources spent in enjoying ,ction in all its forms—story-telling, pretend play, myths and legends, fairy tales, novels, short stories, epic poem...

As World Wide Web transforms into Web 2.0 in the era of media convergence and becomes a full-fledged computing platform serving Web applications to end users, users' online activities become distinctly performative in nature, in that they perform activities that allow them to form electronic texts by mobilizing the resources offered by online works. Second Life, as an open-source platform that ...

An experiment is described in which reporters captured realworld news stories as semantically structured representations of journalistic events and narratives, and preliminary results from the experiment are discussed. The experiment was conducted using the Structured Stories prototype platform, which provides a library of abstractions of journalistic events grounded in frame semantics. Realwor...

We describe a prototype of a story generator that uses a multiagent system and a planner to simulate and generate stories. The objective is to develop a system that is able to produce a wide range of stories by changing its configuration options and the domain knowledge. The resulting prototype is a proof of concept that integrates the simplest pieces that are necessary to generate the stories.

The Way to Self-knowledge From the Unseen The Wonder of the Brain Kundalini for the New Age Introduction There are few subjects relating to spiritual development so critically important and yet so incompletely understood as Yoga. Although the interest in Yoga that started in the West during the 1960's has abated to some degree, the teaching of the various forms of the discipline has become well...

Deploying Evolutionary Computation (EC) solutions to real-world problems involves a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from framing the business problems and implementing the solutions to the final deployment of the solutions to the field. However, issues related to these activities are not commonly discussed in a typical EC course curriculum. Meanwhile, although the values of applied researc...

Technology, especially multimedia technology, is changing the way we tell stories. We are all familiar with letters, articles, and books, but new Internet technology has led to two novel forms of storytelling that we call micro stories and mega stories. Micro stories are the short bits of text and images that we use to tell our friends about our daily life, what we had for lunch, and the funny ...

Mobile and Web 2.0 technology have the very real potential to democratize the creation and sharing of multimedia content in developing communities, even beyond the levels currently seen in community radio and television. In this article, we report the andings of an exercise to test this potential in partnership with a Budikote village in southern India. We show how a system called StoryBank sup...