The definition of “empire” presupposes a relationship between a dominant core and peripheries. This talk turns the metropole into a conceptual and empirical puzzle, asking why, what, how and when ...

During natural viewing, certain objects (such as faces) require detailed central scrutiny to perform such subtle visual tasks as detecting facial expressions and eye gaze directions. Larger objects ...

DURING the recent months, the divide between New Delhi and Tamil Nadu was obvious over how both of them perceive the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Not long ago, Mamata Banerjee played a spoil sport ...

Software systems are among the most complex of the artifacts that our species creates. In the design, use, and evolution of such systems, a dynamic tension exists between what I have come to call the ...