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From the beginning, the world of game-playing by machine has been fortunate in attracting contributions from the leading names of computer science. Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, Claude Shannon, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, John McCarthy, Alan Newell, Herb Simon and Ken Thompson all come to mind, and each reader will wish to add to this list. Recently, the Journal has saluted both Claude Shannon and Herb Simon. Ken’s retirement from Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs to the start-up Entrisphere is also a good moment for reflection

Sustainability marketing: a global perspektive : a book review

Book review: Sustainability Marketing - A Global Perspective, Frank-Martin Belz, Ken Peattie, 2nd ed. Wiley, Chichester, West Sussex (2012). p. 336, ISBN 978-1-119-96619-7 (paperback) Frank-Martin Belz is Professor at the Technische Universität München (TUM School of Management). His research focuses on sustainability innovation and sustainability marketing. Ken Peattie is Professor at Cardiff Business School and his research interests include social marketing, corporate social responsibility, business ethics and education for sustainable development. Frank-Martin Belz and Ken Peattie are two experts with long-term research and teaching experience in sustainability marketing

The Legacy of Ken Wilson

This is a brief account of the legacy of Ken Wilson in statistical physics, high energy physics, computing and education.Comment: Written version of a talk given at the Ken Wilson Memorial Session, StatPhys 25, Seoul, July 2013. To appear in the conference proceedings in J. Stat. Mec

Ken Loach : eine Arbeitsbibliographie

Inhalt: I. Loach über Loach / Interviews II. Bücher / Artikel Die Fernseharbeiten und -auftritte sowie Sendungen über Loach III. Die Film

Ken Arvidson - 1938-2011

in memoriam - Kenneth Owen Arvidson was a local man and, one is driven to suspect, knew everyone and everything of the wider Waikato region. Born in Hamilton, Ken became a member of the English Department at Waikato University in 1974 where we were lucky enough to keep him for 28 years and more. He maintained his interest and connections with the scholarly business of the university during his retirement and will be sadly missed by friends and colleagues throughout New Zealand and beyond

Human Dignity, Humiliation, and Torture

Modern human rights instruments ground human rights in the concept of human dignity, without providing an underlying theory of human dignity. This paper examines the central importance of human dignity, understood as not humiliating people, in traditional Jewish ethics. It employs this conception of human dignity to examine and criticize U.S. use of humiliation tactics and torture in the interrogation of terrorism suspects

Knowledge Enhanced Notes (KEN)

To aid the creation and through-life support of large complex engineering products, organisations are placing a greater emphasis on constructing complete and accurate records of design activities. Current documentary approaches are not sufficient to capture activities and decisions in their entirety and can lead to organisations revisiting and in some cases reworking design decisions in order to understand previous design episodes. This paper presents an overview of the challenges in creating accurate, re-usable records of synchronous design activities, enhancing the through-life support of engineering products, followed by the development of an information capture software system to address these challenges. The main objectives for the development of the Knowledge Enhanced Notes system are described followed by the techniques chosen to address the objectives, and finally a description of a use-case for the system. Whilst the focus of the KEN System was to aid the creation and through-life support of large complex engineering products through constructing complete and accurate records of design activities, the system is entirely generic in its application to synchronous activities

Construction vs. Development: Polarizing Models of Human Gestation

This essay argues that the polarization of our public debate over embryo-destructive research may be due, to a large extent, not to different valuations of individual human life but to different conceptions of the process of gestation, with one group treating the process as a making or construction and the other treating it as a development. These two incompatible models of reproduction are shown to explain the various positions commonly encountered in this debate over the treatment of embryos, and to a significant degree those encountered in the debate over abortion as well. Finally, the historical, theoretical, and intuitive strengths of each model are examined

The Total Artificial Heart and the Dilemma of Deactivation

It is widely believed to be permissible for a physician to discontinue any treatment upon the request of a competent patient. Many also believe it is never permissible for a physician to intentionally kill a patient. I argue that the prospect of deactivating a patient’s artificial heart presents us with a dilemma: either the first belief just mentioned is false or the second one is. Whichever horn of the dilemma we choose has significant implications for contemporary medical ethics

Governing the post mortem procurement of human body material for research

Human body material removed post mortem is a particularly valuable resource for research. Considering the efforts that are currently being made to study the biochemical processes and possible genetic causes that underlie cancer and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, it is likely that this type of research will continue to gain in importance. However, post mortem procurement of human body material for research raises specific ethical concerns, more in particular with regard to the consent of the research participant. In this paper, we attempt to determine which consent regime should govern the post mortem procurement of body material for research. In order to do so, we assess the various arguments that could be put forward in support of a duty to make body material available for research purposes after death. We argue that this duty does in practice not support conscription but is sufficiently strong to defend a policy of presumed rather than explicit consent