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This paper explores principles governing the rational ba... agent's beliefs, goals, actions, and intentions. Such pr... specifications for artificial agents, and approximate a ... action (as philosophers use the term). By making explici... under which

The intelligent use of space
David KirshE-mail The Corresponding Author
Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 9209 ...
Available online 6 April 2000.
... tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.

On distinguishing epistemic from pragmatic action
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University of California, San Diego, USA
... be incorporated into theories of acti

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Computer support for creativity
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An academic scientist’s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, ... recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins by the names ... having conversations consisting of sentences up to five ... The team says this shows dolphins have a language not en... from our o

As a group, scientists are not widely admired for their ... small extent, this derives from their insistence on the ... boogeyman of basic composition classes. Nevertheless, th... defenders: Two experts in scientific style recently took... debate the

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

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Tim Godwin, the Scotland Yard acting commissioner, said ... management team at Scotland Yard discussed shutting down... networking site "a few times" as rumours about further r...

A trip on the 'Loch Carron', travelling up the Firth of ... of Kintyre, Oban, Tiree and the Outer Hebrides.
The film-maker believed this service provided by the 'Lo ...

Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were brought on to St Helena from slaving voyages intercepted by the British Navy. About one-third died shortly after and were buried on the island in unmarked graves.

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Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
Josephine Ross with some fascinating anecdotal accounts ...

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A few days ago Colleen Theisen who helps with outreach a ...
When I real

Selecting k smallest or largest elements
Another fundamental selection problem is that of selecti ...

Represents the active selection, which is a highlighted ... and/or other elements in the document on which a user or... carry out some action.

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw...
Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ...
And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ...
“Most buildings today are dumb,” says EnOcean Chairm ...
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Self-Referential Aptitude Test
by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ...
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ...
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