A course in robotics is being piloted this semester at Purchase College/State University of New York. It was designed for its particular audience: upper-level students in the mathematics/computer science major and in the new media major as well as any other student who have satisfied the programming pre-requisite, possibly through general education courses. However, the general ideas motivating...

Some individuals have a greater capacity than others to carry out sophisticated information processing about emotions and emotion-relevant stimuli and to use this information as a guide to thinking and behavior. The authors have termed this set of abilities emotional intelligence (EI). Since the introduction of the concept, however, a schism has developed in which some researchers focus on EI a...