Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual
worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life
create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend ...

" It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can
be turned in two directions. Turn it one way andyou lock resources away, even from those
they belong to. Turn it the otherway and you release resources and give people back to ...

The enterprise to understand the nature of mind and intelligence has been with us for a long
time. It belongs not to us alone, who are gathered at this conference, nor even to science
alone. It is one of the truly great mysteries and the weight of scholarship devoted to it over ...

Abstract The development of information processing systems, especially if these consist of
concurrent processes, is a very complicated task. In fact, modern computer systems are the
most complicated structures mankind has ever built in its history: Modern microprocessors ...

Abstract Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its history with the majority of people
now living in cities. Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of
innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also its main source of crime, pollution, and ...

Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about planned
events. It focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events
and the meanings attached to them, the dynamic processes shaping events and why ...

This book is an accessible introduction to complexity theory and cryptology, two closely
related areas in theoretical computer science. Based on courses taught at Heinrich-Heine-
Universität Düsseldorf and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena since 1996, this textbook is ...

Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and
leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and
programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a ...

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and
driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and
military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell ...