In this essay I will explore an understanding of the potential moral agency of robots, arguing that the key characteristics of physical embodiment, adaptive learning, empathy in action, and a teleology toward the good are the primary necessary components for a machine to become a moral agent. In this context, other possible options will be rejected as necessary for moral agency, including simpl...

The HAL 9000 computer, the inimitable star of the classic Kubrick and Clarke film "2001: A Space Odyssey," displayed image understanding capabilities vastly beyond today’s computer systems. HAL could not only instantly recognize who he was interacting with, but also he could lip read, judge aesthetics of visual sketches, recognize emotions subtly expressed by scientists on board the ship, and r...

An ab initio study of the mono-and difluorides of krypton. Results from ab initio calculations at the CCSD͑T͒ level of theory are presented for krypton monofluoride ͑KrF͒, krypton monofluoride cation (KrF ϩ), linear, ground-state krypton difluoride (KrF 2), the triplet state of krypton difluoride, and the krypton–fluorine van der Waals complex (Kr–F 2). These are the first calculations demonstratin...

Acta Semiotica Estica is an annually published peer-reviewed Estonian-language journal of semiotics based in Tartu, that has been since 2001. This article gives a brief overview the history and development journal.

Americans age 12 or older experienced approximately 24.2 million violent and property victimizations in 2001 according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Overall criminal victimizations included about 18.3 million property crimes (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and theft), 5.7 million violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), and abo...

At the First IFAC Workshop on Periodic Systems (Como, Italy, 2001), a state of the art survey of computational methods for periodic systems has been presented (Varga and Van Dooren, 2001). This contribution continues this survey by presenting the main achievements in this field since 2001. Besides many foreseen developments mentioned in 2001 as open problems, important new developments took pla...

US wind power generation has grown significantly over the last decades, in line with number and average size of operating turbines. However, density declined, both measured terms output per rotor swept area as well spacing area. To study this effect, we present a decomposition data for period 2001--2021 examine how changes input system efficiency affected density. Here, refers to amount availab...