In this position paper, we propose a different paradigm for using speech to interact with computers: speech for content creation. We survey the literature in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), sentiment detection, and opinion mining to argue that the time has come to use mobile devices to create content on-the-fly. We examine recent work in user modelling and...

If the field of Artificial Life ("ALife") is successful, we will be forced to confront some difficult moral and philosophical issues which we might otherwise have been able to avoid. The ability to create new life forms as well as destroy existing ones will place a greater responsibility upon us. In addition, the existence of living systems within computer-simulated environments will present so...

Regenerative and reparatory medicine is one of the most attractive therapeutic options of the coming years, and the power to replace entire damaged organic structures or organs is, in our opinion, the most innovative possibility in this field. In relation to the creation of bioartificial organs in particular, hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys, ovaries, intestines, pancreas and corneas have already...

T here is no denying that the recent papal encyclical, Laudato si’, represents a sea change in official Catholic social teaching.1 For one thing, it is addressed not simply to the bishops nor even to each member of the Catholic Church but to “every person living on this planet” (§3); for another, it speaks from the perspective of the global South and names the debts owed by the North to the Sou...

addicts emerging not from the traditional milieu changes. As pharmaceutical companies gained of the urban underclass but from the white control over research and the subsequent suburban middle-classes, and from the 1980s marketing of drug therapies, the faith in science with the disastrous spread of HIV/AIDS, gave increasingly meant a faith in pharmaceutical impetus to new non-medical movements...

the “human mud” is one of the motifs of the poetry attributed to khayyam. the imagery, concepts and philosophical thoughts about the human being's origin (creation, death, life after death) form the essence of this poetry. are the khayyam's quatrains about creation original and new? or do they have a precedent in the ancient world poetry? why does the iranian literary criticism claim that this ...