This paper describes recent work on a largescale, distributed audio installation entitled Ordnance Survey. It explores problems associated with presenting an overview of large, complex data sets in real-time. This is accomplished through the creation of a spatially separate audio-visual environment in a manner that aims to provide an immersive experience of disparate events in a single locality...

There is a recent trend of using controlled natural language (CNL) interfaces to provide more intuitive ways for entering abstract knowledge constructs [3]. This can reduce the complexity of knowledge formulation, which can lead to wider user involvement in ontology authoring and improved efficiency of the knowledge engineering process. However, CNL-based tools for ontology engineering focus so...

This is a Project Michelson study report. The author analyzes 17 Chinese Communist dramatic films and compares them with traditional Chinese literature and drama and with Chinese films produced in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The dominant themes discussed are 1. The Feudalistic Family 2. Liberation of Women 3. Liberation of Youth 4. Reactionary Figures 5. Revolutionary Figures 6. Antiindividualism 7. ...