We have proposed Meta-Museum as a new knowledge sharing environment where experts and novices can communicate with each other with agent support. Museum exhibitions are thought to be well organized representations of the expert knowledge of curators, but they are just one example of structures of knowledge among many possibilities, given to museum visitors in a one-sided way. Therefore, traditi...

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Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, USA, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. After completing her Biology degree Boston a Fulbright Scholarship National Museum Natural Sciences, Spain, PhD with Jonathan Losos Harvard worked as post-doc Craig Moritz The Australian University then Sheila Patek Duke USA. She joined Department Bio...

Abstract Precious cultural assets of East Asia are found worldwide and hold many important art-historical meanings, for example Buddhist statues. In this study, we conducted wood identification Japanese Chinese statues owned by the Museum Fine Arts, Boston, USA. From eight sculptures one sculpture, 15 samples were collected. The anatomical features these scrutinized using synchrotron X-ray micr...

Can machines think? Alan Turing's decades-old question still influences artificial intelligence because of the simple test he proposed in his article in Mind. In this article, AI Magazine collects presentations about the first round of the classic Turing Test of machine intelligence, held November 8, 1991 at The Computer Museum, Boston. summarizes some of the difficult issues during the plannin...

Bembidion (Lymnaeum) nigropiceum (Marsham) (=puritanum Hayward), a European species introduced into Massachusetts but presumed not to have become established, has been rediscovered during the Boston Harbor Islands All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory undertaken by the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the National Park Service. A summary is presented of treatment of this species in North America. Da...

In the Children's Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, there is a huge dinosaur's bone. Beneath are three notices? 'This is a dinosaur's bone' 'Touch it' 'Now you can say you have touched a dinosaur's bone' It is with the same feeling of awe that we may take a look at another fascinating old horror?death, as it is presented to us in this wideranging book. In the first of three sections, A. Keith Ma...

Insects of the family Dermestidae are common insect pests of museums and other sites where historical artifacts are displayed and stored. Trogoderma variabile (Ballion), the warehouse beetle, is a member of this family, and though it is more commonly associated with processed and finished stored food products, it can be found in museums. There are aspects relating to monitoring and control of T...

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