PLEASANTVILLE (1998) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1998 Ted Prigge
Writer/Director: Gary Ross Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Jeff Daniels, J.T. Walsh, Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton, Marisa Ribisi, Jane Kaczmarek
"Pleasantville" is an amazing film, and it's incredibly philosophical about life and all, but there's a couple things people have been looking over. They watch this film and they see that it deals with the complex subject of change and looking strangely at the 50s ideal American Dream of suburbia where everyone's happy and live without fear of conflict, and although they think that the reason it's such a great film is because it's philosophical, they're glossing over something else that's there. There always has to be something more than just philosophy to make a piece of art great, even if what you're looking at is Dostoevsky. Reading "Crime and Punishment" is not a great read because it expertly undlies humanity, but because it's a damn tense read that shocks us with its major insights.
The makers of "Plesantville" have come up with a gimmick that is truly ingenius. As, the characters in this film go through major changes in the way they see life, they change from black and white to color. This is the reason this film is great. Director and writer Gary Ross has found a way to convey not only the fact that they're changing but what they're feeling like and what it must be like to everyone else in one simple technique that to the audience is completely cinematic and jaw-dropping. Seeing the first red rose amongst a patch of otherwise black and white flowers is nearly orgasmic.
"Pleasantville" is a simple film, filled with not only this gimmick, but another one more that is commonly known as the "Fish Out of Water" movie, and despite some clumsiness in this set-up, "Pleasantville" may go down in cinema history as the best "Fish Out of Water" movie since "Being There."  One night, when she has a date to watch a concert on TV and he wants to watch the 24-hour "Pleasantville" marathon, they have a fight over the remote control and break it. A sinister-looking TV repairman (played by none other than Don Knotts) shows up, gives them a new remote, and when fighting over that one, they suddenly get sucked into "Pleasantville."
Now, I don't know if anyone remembers the ill-fated sitcom from the early 90s, "Honey, I'm Home" (where they imported a family from the 50s and put them in the cynical 90s), but even if you do, don't worry because after about 10 minutes, these two take off in different directions. Instead of staying with the overdone gimmick of "They're from the 90s and now in the 50s! How about that?!," which features David and Jennifer trying to fit in at home (the parents are played to perfection by William H. Macy and Joan Allen) and at school, and discovering all the annoyances of living in perfection (they quickly discovers nothing burns, it never rains, the fireman don't know what a fire is, and there's not bathroom in those stalls), it instead takes off questioning everything that has been put before them.
Starting with Jennifer teaching the captain of the basketball team (Paul Walker) what should be done at Lover's Lane, a chain reaction is started where most people learn about what else there is in life, and when they do, they turn into color, while everything else is in black and white. This actually robs the film of any real subtlety about its message, making everything incredibly obvious, but it makes up for this in two ways: 1) the gimmick of people changing never becomes tiresome, and is always handled with originality and emotion; and 2) it actually adds on top of that some real complications.
The world of "Pleasantville" is happy, and perpetually so, and only changes when one person who has seen the difference and dislikes it enough to do something about it. But is it really a good thing that these people changed, and complicated everything? Wouldn't it be better if everything was at peace and there was nothing wrong ever? Gary Ross says no, and the rest of this film is his argument. Isn't the fact that there are conflicts and suffering and the chance for happiness much better than actual happiness? Isn't the great thing about life that things will not stay the same for any real length of time, and that you always have to get used to living with something else?
The fact that Gary Ross explores all these angles is incredible, since most films follow through on their subjects just so they can prove their points. "Pleasantville" shows the modern-day as cynical and pessimistic, with chances of things only becoming worse. The 50s, when everything was seemingly perfect, is shown as the opposite of that, and should theoretically be the ideal place to live in. The changes, when they happen, only bring out pain and suffering, resulting in a darker second half, where the black and whites end up in a war against the "colors," and book burning, prejudices, and social upheveal take hold. But Ross says this is all worth it, just because when you suffer, you finally see how free and grand life really is.
For this philosophical argument, I commend it, but that's really not why it's great. Sure, it says that life is worth living, but I'm much more interested in the way this all comes about than rather what it says. For me, "Plesantville" is worth multiple viewings just for those moments when the colors pop up amidst the black and white photography. I love those moments when little things are color while the rest are still the same. And when instead of safe 50s ballads, Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis creep onto the soundtrack. And when the pages of the normally blank books in the library fill up with words before our eyes. There's an intensely touching moment when the mother has learned about sex and has turned to color, and asks David in confidence to put makeup on her to hide up her transformation, and another moment that's nearly erotic when the makeup is slowly taken off by someone else. And my favorite moment, when David and his new girlfriend drive from the black and white road into Lover's Lane, where everything's vibrant colors, and then later it rains for the first time.
Gary Ross has assembled an incredible cast of actors who aren't so well-known but are all immensely talented, and everyone gives an incredible performance, but there are some real standouts. Tobey Maguire is effortlessly lovable in the lead, as he always is, and Reese Witherspoon is hysterical as the cynic who learns about real passion from a D.H. Lawrence book (as we all did). William H. Macy brings real emotion and depth to his character, especially in the final moments of the film, and Jeff Daniels, as the local sodajerk, comes off as sweet and charmingly innocent. In his final performance, J.T. Walsh demonstrates exactly why he was great: because he was eerily prickly the only he could be. Joan Allen, though, looks like the one who would get the Oscar nomination out of the lot. She brings true emotion and creativity to her role of the housewife who learns about passion early on, and tries her best to deal with it, demonstrating that she may possibly be the greatest actress in her age demographic working today.
But will anyone see it as nothing but a philosophical film, and an unsubtle one at that? I hope not, because it's one of those films that is endlessly inventive and truly magical, in the tradition of the best films of Frank Capra and even Victor Fleming (although some are comparing it to "Back to the Future," it almost has as much magic as, say, "The Wizard of Oz"). In years, people may reflect on this as the film they nearly misunderstood for its greatness, but right now, it's one of the best films to come out this year, just on the strength of how happy it can make even the most pessimistic of the lot, and how it can make the future look optimistic for a change.
MY RATING (out of 4): ****
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| state(...) | Create new instance of State |
| new(initial_state[, transitions[, variables[, final_state]]]) | Create new instance of Adam |
| parse(json_data) | Return new Adam Instance from JSON representation |
| actions(...) | Return the group of actions what can be used instead single action. |
| event(event_name) | Trigger event for all current Adam Instances |
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Create new instance of Adam
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- initial_state StateInstance The initial FSM state. It will be triggered on start
- transitions StateInstance[] The array of next structure: {state_instance, state_instance, [event]}, describe transitiom from first state to second on event. By default event is adam.FINISHED (optional)
- variables table Defined FSM variables. All variables should be defined before use (optional)
- final_state StateInstance This state should contains only instant actions, execute on adam:final, transitions are not required (optional)
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- ... ActionInstance The Actions for template
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Books and Book Chapters
P. Maragos, A. Potamianos and P. Gros (eds),
Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text
, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
A. Potamianos and M. Perakakis,
"Human-Computer Interfaces to Multimedia Content: A Review,''
in Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text ,
Springer-Verlag, 2008.
A. Potamianos and M. Perakakis,
"Design Principles for Multimodal Spoken Dialogue Systems,''
in Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text ,
Springer-Verlag, 2008.
G. Evangelopoulos, K. Rapatzikos, P. Maragos,
Y. Avrithis, A. Potamianos,
"Audiovisual Attention Modeling and Salient Event Detection",
in Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text ,
Springer-Verlag, 2008.
Journal Papers
G. Paraskevopoulos, E. Tzinis, E.-V. Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, and A. Potamianos,
"Pattern search MDS ," arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00416 , Mar. 2018.
A. Fergadis, C. Baziotis, D. Pappas, H. Papageorgiou, and A. Potamianos,
"Hierarchical bi-directional attention-based RNNs for supporting document
classification on protein--protein interactions affected by genetic
mutations ," Database , vol. 2018-1, pp. 1--10, Jan. 2018.
E. Iosif, I. Klasinas, G. Athanasopoulou, E. Palogiannidi, S. Georgiladakis,
K. Louka, and A. Potamianos, "Speech understanding for spoken dialogue
systems: From corpus harvesting to grammar rule induction ," Computer
Speech and Language , vol. 47, pp. 272--297, Jan. 2018.
A. Zlatintsi, P. Koutras, G. Evangelopoulos, N. Malandrakis, N. Efthymiou,
K. Pastra, A. Potamianos, and P. Maragos, "COGNIMUSE: a multimodal video
database annotated with saliency, events, semantics and emotion with
application to summarization ," EURASIP Journal on Image and Video
Processing , vol. 2017, p. 54, Jan. 2017.
A. Vinciarelli, A. Esposito, E. Andre, F. Bonin, M. Chetouani, J. Cohn,
M. Cristani, F. Fuhrmann, E. Gilmartin, Z. Hammal, D. Heylen, R. Kaiser,
M. Koutsombogera, A. Potamianos, S. Renals, G. Riccardi, and A. Salah, "Open
challenges in modelling, analysis and synthesis of human behaviour in
human-human and human-machine interactions ," Cognitive Computation ,
vol. 7, pp. 397--413, Apr. 2015.
S. Lee, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "
Developmental acoustic study of American English diphthongs ,'' Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America , vol. 136, pp. 1880--1894, Oct. 2014.
G. Evangelopoulos, A. Zlatintsi, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos,
G. Skoumas, and Y. Avrithis, "
Multimodal saliency and fusion for movie summarization based on aural, visual, and textual attention ," IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia , vol. 15, pp. 1553--1568, Nov. 2013.
N. Malandrakis, A. Potamianos, E. Iosif, and S. S. Narayanan, "Distributional
semantic models for affective text analysis ," IEEE Transactions on
Audio, Speech and Language Processing , vol. 21, pp. 2379-2392, Nov. 2013.
T. Moschopoulos, E. Iosif, L. Demetropoulou, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan,
"Toward the automatic extraction of policy networks using web links and
documents ," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering ,
vol. 25, pp. 2404-2417, Oct. 2013.
E. Iosif and A. Potamianos, "Similarity computation using semantic networks
created from web-harvested data ," Natural Language Engineering ,
vol. FirstView, pp. 1-31, July 2013.
D. Dimitriadis, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos,
"
On the Effects of Filterbank Design and Energy Computation on Robust Speech Recognition
,"
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing ,
vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1504-1516, Aug. 2011.
S. Yildirim, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos,
"
Detecting Emotional State of a Child in a Conversational Computer Game
,"
Computer, Speech and Language , vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 29-44, Jan. 2011.
E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos,
"
Unsupervised Semantic Similarity Computation Between Terms Using Web Documents
,''
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering , vol. 22, no. 11 , pp. 1637-1647, Nov. 2010.
D. Nion, K. Mokios, N. Sidiropoulos, A. Potamianos,
"
Batch and Adaptive PARAFAC-Based Blind Separation of Convolutive Speech
Mixtures ,"
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech
and Language Processing , vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1193 - 1207, Aug. 2010.
P. Tsiakoulis, A. Potamianos, and D. Dimitriadis,
"
Spectral Moment Features Augmented by Low Order Cepstral Coefficients for Robust ASR
," IEEE Signal Processing Letters , vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 551-554, June 2010.
D. Dimitriadis, A. Potamianos, and P. Maragos,
"
A Comparison of the Squared Energy and Teager-Kaiser Operators for Short-Time
Energy Estimation in Noise
,''
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 2569-2581, July 2009.
E. Sanchez-Soto, A. Potamianos, and K. Daoudi, "
Unsupervised stream weight computation in classification and recognition tasks
,'' IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech
and Language Processing , vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 436-445, Mar. 2009.
M. Perakakis and A. Potamianos, "
A study in efficiency and modality usage in multimodal form filling systems
,'' IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech
and Language Processing ,
Vol. 16, pp. 1194 - 1206, Aug. 2008.
E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos, "
Information seeking spoken dialogue systems - Part I: Semantics and pragmatics
,'' IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia , vol. 9, no.3, Apr. 2007.
Vol. 9, pp. 532 - 549, April 2007.
A. Potamianos, E. Fosler-Lussier, E. Ammicht, and M. Perakakis, "
Information seeking spoken dialogue systems - Part II: Multimodal dialogue
,'' IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ,
Vol. 9, pp. 550 - 566, April 2007.
D. Dimitriadis, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "
Robust AM-FM features for speech recognition
,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters , vol. 12,
pp. 621-624, Sept. 2005.
A. Potamianos, S. Narayanan, and G. Riccardi, "
Adaptive categorical understanding for spoken dialogue systems
,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech
and Audio Processing ,
Vol. 13, pp. 321 - 329, May 2005.
A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, C.-H. Lee, A. Potamianos, and A. Tsai,
"Auto-induced semantic classes,'' Speech Communication , vol. 43,
pp. 183-203, Aug. 2004.
A. Potamianos and S. Narayanan, "
Robust recognition of children's speech
,''
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , vol. 11,
pp. 603-616, Nov. 2003.
V. Weerackody, W. Reichl, and A. Potamianos, "
An error-protected speech recognition system for wireless communications
,'' IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications , vol. 1, pp. 282-291, Apr. 2002.
S. Narayanan and A. Potamianos, "
Creating conversational interfaces for children
,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , vol. 10,
pp. 65-78, Feb. 2002. [IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award 2005 ]
D. Dimitriadis, V. Pitsikalis, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "
Modulation and chaotic features for speech recognition
,'' invited paper to the Journal
of Control and Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Nonlinear Speech
Processing , vol. 30, pp. 19-26, Jan. 2002.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
Time-frequency distributions for automatic speech recognition
,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing ,
vol. 9, pp. 196-200, Mar. 2001.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
Speech analysis and synthesis using an AM-FM modulation model
,'' Speech Communication , vol. 28,
pp. 195-209, July 1999.
S. Lee, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "
Acoustics of children's speech: Developmental changes of temporal and spectral parameters
,'' Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America , pp. 1455-1468, Mar. 1999. [Selected Research Article by JASA ]
P.Maragos and A. Potamianos, "
Fractal dimensions of speech sounds: Computation
and application to automatic speech recognition
,'' Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America , pp. 1925-1932, Mar. 1999.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
Speech formant frequency and bandwidth tracking using multiband energy demodulation
,'' Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America , vol. 99, pp. 3795-3806, June 1996.
P. Maragos and A. Potamianos, "
Higher-order differential energy operators
,''
IEEE Signal Processing Letters , vol. 2, Aug. 1995.
H. M. Hanson, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "
A system for finding speech formants and modulations via energy separation
,'' IEEE Transactions on
Speech and Audio Processing , vol. 2, pp. 436-443, July 1994.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
A comparison of the energy operator and the Hilbert transform approach to signal and speech demodulation
,'' Signal Processing , vol. 37, pp. 95-120, May 1994.
Conference Publications
E. Tzinis, G. Paraskevopoulos, C. Baziotis, and A. Potamianos, "Integrating
recurrence dynamics for speech emotion recognition ," in Proc.
Interspeech , Hyderabad, India, pp. 927--931, Sept. 2018.
N. Athanasiou, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Neural activation semantic
models: Computational lexical semantic models of localized neural
activations ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computational Linguistics ,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, pp. 2867--2878, Aug. 2018.
A. Chronopoulou, A. Margatina, C. Baziotis, and A. Potamianos, "NTUA-SLP at
IEST 2018: Ensemble of neural transfer methods for implicit emotion
classification ," in Proc. Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis , Brussels, Belgium, July
2018.
C. Baziotis, N. Athanasiou, A. Chronopoulou, A. Kolovou, G. Paraskevopoulos,
N. Ellinas, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos, "NTUA-SLP at SemEval-2018
Task 1: Predicting affective content in tweets with deep attentive rnns and
transfer learning ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Semantic Evaluation ,
New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 245--–255, June 2018.
C. Baziotis, N. Athanasiou, G. Paraskevopoulos, N. Ellinas, A. Kolovou, and
A. Potamianos, "NTUA-SLP at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Predicting emojis
using RNNs with context-aware attention ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on
Semantic Evaluation , New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 438--–444, June 2018.
C. Baziotis, N. Athanasiou, P. Papalampidi, A. Kolovou, G. Paraskevopoulos,
N. Ellinas, and A. Potamianos, "NTUA-SLP at SemEval-2018 Task 3:
Tracking ironic tweets using ensembles of word and character level attentive
RNNs ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Semantic Evaluation , (New Orleans,
Louisiana), pp. 613--621, June 2018.
F. Christopoulou, E. Briakou, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Mixture of
topic-based distributional semantic and affective models ," in Proc.
IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing , Laguna Hills, CA, pp. 203--210,
Jan. 2018.
A. Kolovou, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Lexical and affective models in
early acquisition of semantics ," in Proc. Workshop on Child Computer
Interaction , Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 2017.
A. Fergadis, C. Baziotis, D. Pappas, H. Papageorgiou, and A. Potamianos,
"Hierarchical bidirectional attention-based RNN in BioCreative VI
precision medicine track, document triage task ," in Proc. BioCreative
Challenge Evaluation Workshop , Bethesda, Maryland, Oct. 2017.
E. Tzinis and A. Potamianos, "Segment-based speech emotion recognition using
recurrent neural networks ," in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction , San Antonio, Texas, pp. 190--195,
Oct. 2017.
A. Kolovou, F. Kokkinos, A. Fergadis, P. Papalampidi, E. Iosif, N. Malandrakis,
E. Palogiannidi, H. Papageorgiou, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos, "Tweester
at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Fusion of semantic-affective and pairwise
classification models for sentiment analysis in twitter ," in Proc.
Intl. Workshop on Semantic Evaluation , Vancouver, Canada, pp. 675--682,
Aug. 2017.
P. Papalampidi, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Dialogue act semantic
representation and classification using recurrent neural networks ," in
Proc. Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue , (Saabrucken,
Germany), pp. 77--86, Aug. 2017.
A. Chorianopoulou, E. Tzinis, E. Iosif, A. Papoulidi, C. Papailiou, and
A. Potamianos, "Engagement detection for children with autism spectrum
disorder ," in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal
Process. , New Orleans, LA, pp. 5055--5059, Mar. 2017.
G. Karamanolakis, E. Iosif, A. Zlatintsi, A. Pikrakis, and A. Potamianos,
"Audio-based distributional semantic models for music auto-tagging and
similarity measurement ," arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08391 , Dec. 2016.
F. Kokkinos and A. Potamianos, "Structural attention neural networks for
improved sentiment analysis ," arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01811 , Dec.
2016.
A. Chorianopoulou, P. Koutsakis, and A. Potamianos, "Speech emotion
recognition using affective saliency ," in Proc. Interspeech , (San
Francisco, CA), Sept. 2016.
S. Georgiladakis, G. Athanasopoulou, R. Meena, J. Lopes, A. Chorianopoulou,
E. Palogiannidi, E. Iosif, G. Skantze, and A. Potamianos, "Root cause
analysis of miscommunication hotspots in spoken dialogue systems ," in
Proc. Interspeech , San Francisco, CA, Sept. 2016.
G. Karamanolakis, E. Iosif, A. Zlatintsi, A. Pikrakis, and A. Potamianos,
"Audio-based distributional representations of meaning using a fusion of
feature encodings ," in Proc. Interspeech , San Francisco, CA, Sept.
2016.
E. Palogiannidi, E. Iosif, P. Koutsakis, and A. Potamianos, "A
semantic-affective compositional approach for the affective labelling of
adjective-noun and noun-noun pairs ," in Proc. of the 7th Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
(WASSA) , San Diego, CA, June 2016.
E. Palogiannidi, A. Kolovou, F. Christopoulou, F. Kokkinos, E. Iosif,
N. Malandrakis, H. Papageorgiou, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos, "Tweester
at semeval-2016 task 4: Sentiment analysis in twitter using
semantic-affective model adaptation ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on
Semantic Evaluation , San Diego, CA, June 2016.
E. Iosif, S. Georgiladakis, and A. Potamianos, "Cognitively motivated
distributional representations of meaning ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on
Language Resources and Evaluation , Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016.
E. Iosif and A. Potamianos, "Crossmodal network-based distributional semantic
models ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation ,
Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016.
J. Lopes, A. Chorianopoulou, E. Palogiannidi, H. Moniz, A. Abad, K. Louka,
E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "The Spedial datasets: datasets for spoken
dialogue system analytics ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Language Resources
and Evaluation , Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016.
E. Palogiannidi, P. Koutsakis, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Affective lexicon
creation for the Greek language ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Language
Resources and Evaluation , Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2016.
P. Koutras, A. Zlatintsi, E.Iosif, A. Katsamanis, P. Maragos, and
A. Potamianos, "Predicting audio-visual salient events based on visual, audio and text modalities for movie summarization ," in Proc. Internat.Conf. on Image Processing , Quebec City, Canada, Sept. 2015.
E. Palogiannidi, E. Iosif, P. Koutsakis, and A. Potamianos, "Valence, arousal and dominance estimation for english, german, greek, portuguese and spanish lexica using semantic models ," in Proc. Interspeech , (Dresden, Germany), Sept. 2015.
S. Georgiladakis, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Fusion of compositional
network-based and lexical function distributional semantic models ," in
Proc. Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) ,
Denver, Colorado, pp. 39--47, June 2015.
A. Zlatintsi, E.Iosif, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "Audio salient event
detection and summarization using audio and text modalities ," in Proc.
European Signal Process. Conf. , Nice, France, May 2015.
A. Zlatintsi, P. Koutras, N. Efthymiou, P. Maragos, A. Potamianos, and
K. Pastra, "Quality evaluation of computational models for movie summarization ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) , (Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece), May 2015.
E. Iosif and A. Potamianos, "Feeling is understanding: From affective to semantic spaces ," in Proc. Intl Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS) , London, UK, pp. 162--173, Apr. 2015.
G. Athanasopoulou, I. Klasinas, S. Georgiladakis, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos,
"
Using lexical, syntactic and semantic features for non-terminal grammar
rule induction in spoken dialogue systems ," in Proc. IEEE/ACM Workshop
on Spoken Language Technology , Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Dec. 2014.
R. Gupta, T. Guha, N. Malandrakis, M. V. Segbroeck, B. Xiao, M. P. Black,
A. Potamianos, and S. S. Narayanan, "Multimodal prediction of affective
dimensions and depression in human-computer interactions ," in Proc.
Intl. Audio Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop , Orlando, Florida, Nov.
2014.
A. Potamianos, "Cognitive multimodal processing: from signal to behavior ," in
Proc. Workshop on Roadmapping the Future of Multimodal Interaction
Research , Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2014.
D. Bone, C.-C. Lee, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "An investigation of
vocal arousal dynamics in child-psychologist interactions using synchrony
measures and a conversation-based model ," in Proc. Interspeech ,
(Singapore), Sept. 2014.
S. Georgiladakis, C. Unger, E. Iosif, S. Walter, P. Cimiano, E. Petrakis, and
A. Potamianos, "Fusion of knowledge-based and data-driven approaches to
grammar induction ," in Proc. Interspeech , (Singapore), Sept. 2014.
M. V. Segbroeck, R. Travadi, C. Vaz, J. Kim, M. Black, A. Potamianos, and
S. Narayanan, "Classification of cognitive load from speech using an
i-vector framework ," in Proc. Interspeech , (Singapore), Sept. 2014.
P. G. Shivakumar, A. Potamianos, S. Lee, and S. Narayanan, "Improving speech
recognition for children using acoustic adaptation and pronunciation
modeling ," in Proc. Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction ,
(Singapore), Sept. 2014.
G. Athanasopoulou, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Low-dimensional manifold
distributional semantic models ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computational
Linguistics , Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2014.
A. Chorianopoulou, G. Athanasopoulou, E. Iosif, I. Klasinas, and A. Potamianos,
"tucsage: Grammar rule induction for spoken dialogue systems via
probabilistic candidate selection ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Semantic
Evaluation , Dublin, Ireland, pp. 668--672, Aug. 2014.
I. Klasinas, E. Iosif, K. Louka, and A. Potamianos, "Semeval-2014 task 2:
Grammar induction for spoken dialogue systems ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop
on Semantic Evaluation , Dublin, Ireland, pp. 9--16, Aug. 2014.
N. Malandrakis, M. Falcone, C. Vaz, J. J. Bisogni, A. Potamianos, and
S. Narayanan, "Sail: Sentiment analysis using semantic similarity and
contrast features ," in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Semantic Evaluation ,
Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2014.
N. Malandrakis, A. Potamianos, K. J. Hsu, K. N. Babeva, M. C. Feng, G. C.
Davison, and S. Narayanan, "Affective language model adaptation via corpus
selection ," in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal
Process. , Florence, Italy, May 2014.
E. Palogiannidi, I. Klasinas, A. Potamianos, and E. Iosif, "Spoken dialogue
grammar induction from crowdsourced data ," in Proc. Internat. Conf. on
Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Florence, Italy, May 2014.
K. Zervanou, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Word semantic similarity for
morphologically rich languages ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Language
Resources and Evaluation , Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 1642--1648, May 2014.
I. Klasinas, A. Potamianos, E. Iosif, S. Georgiladakis, and G. Mameli, "Web
data harvesting for speech understanding grammar induction ," in Proc.
Interspeech , Lyon, France, Aug. 2013.
V. Kouloumenta, M. Perakakis, and A. Potamianos, "Affective evaluation of
multimodal dialogue games for preschoolers using physiological signals ," in
Proc. Interspeech , Lyon, France, Aug. 2013.
N. Malandrakis, S. Sundaram, and A. Potamianos, "Affective classification of
generic audio clips using regression models ," in Proc. Interspeech ,
Lyon, France, Aug. 2013.
A. Tsiartas, T. Chaspari, A. Katsamanis, P. Ghosh, M. Li, M. V. Segbroeck,
A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "Multi-band long-term signal variability
features for robust voice activity detection ," in Proc. Interspeech ,
Lyon, France, Aug. 2013.
N. Malandrakis, I. Elias, V. Prokopi, A. Potamianos, and S. S. Narayanan,
"Deeppurple: Lexical, string and affective feature fusion for sentence-level
semantic similarity estimation ," in Proc. 2nd Joint Conference on
Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 1: Proceedings of the Main
Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity , pp. 103-108,
Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2013.
N. Malandrakis, A. Kazemzadeh, A. Potamianos, and S. S. Narayanan, "Sail: A
hybrid approach to sentiment analysis ," in Proc. 2nd Joint Conference
on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the
Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) ,
pp. 438-442, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2013.
G. Evgeneiadis, V. Kouloumenta, and A. Potamianos, "Analyzing exploration and
exploitation patterns in multimodal dialogue games for preschoolers ," in
Proc. Games for Learning Workshop - Foundations of Digital Games
Conference , Chania, Greece, May 2013.
N. Malandrakis, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "Continuous models of affect
from text using n-grams ," in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech,
and Signal Process. , Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
P. Tsiakoulis, A. Potamianos, and D. Dimitriadis, "Instantaneous frequency and
bandwidth estimation using filterbank arrays ," in Proc. Internat. Conf.
on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
E. Iosif, A. Potamianos, M. Giannoudaki, and K. Zervanou, "Semantic similarity
computation for abstract and concrete nouns using network-based
distributional semantic models ," in Proc. 10th International Conference
on Computational Semantics (IWCS) , Potsdam, Germany, pp. 328-334, Mar.
2013.
M. Perakakis and A. Potamianos, "An affective evaluation tool using brain
signals ," in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces
(companion volume) , Santa Monica, CA, pp. 105-106, ACM, Mar. 2013.
M. Perakakis and A. Potamianos, "Affective evaluation of a mobile multimodal
dialogue system using brain signals ," in Proc. IEEE/ACM Workshop on
Spoken Language Technology , Miami, Florida, Dec. 2012.
A. Zlatintsi, P. Maragos, A. Potamianos, and G. Evangelopoulos, "A
saliency-based approach to audio event detection and summarization ," in
Proc. European Signal Process. Conf. , Aug. 2012.
N. Malandrakis, E. Iosif, and A. Potamianos, "Deeppurple: Estimating sentence
semantic similarity using n-gram regression models and web snippets ," in
*SEM 2012: The 1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational
Semantics , Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
G. Riccardi, P. Cimiano, A. Potamianos, and C. Unger, "Up from limited dialog
systems! ," in Proc. NAACL-HLT Workshop on future directions and needs
in the SDS community (position paper) , Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
N. Malandrakis, A. Potamianos, E. Iosif and S. Narayanan,
"
EmotiWord: Affective Lexicon Creation with Application to Interaction and Multimedia Data
,"
in Proc. MUSCLE International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding ,
Pisa, Italy, Dec. 2011.
N. Malandrakis, A. Potamianos, E. Iosif and S. Narayanan,
"
Kernel models for affective lexicon creation ,"
in Proc. Interspeech , Florence, Italy, Aug. 2011.
N. Malandrakis, A. Potamianos, G. Evangelopoulos and A. Zlatintsi,
"
A supervised approach to movie emotion tracking ,"
in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, Apr. 2011.
P. Tsiakoulis, and A. Potamianos,
"
On the Effect of Fundamental Frequency on Amplitude and Frequency Modulation Patterns in Speech Resonances ,"
in Proc. Interspeech , Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010.
M. Poesio, M. Baroni, O. Lanz, A. Lenci, A. Potamianos, H. Schutze,
S. Schulte im Walde, and L. Surian,
"
BabyExp: Constructing a huge multimodal resource to acquire commonsense knowledge like children do ,"
in Proc. LREC , Malta, May. 2010.
S. Dimopoulos, C.H. Lee, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos, "
Transition features for CRF-based recognition and boundary detection
,"
in Proc. Automatic Speech Recogn. and Underst. Workshop (ASRU),
Merano, Italy, Dec. 2009.
P. Tsiakoulis, A. Potamianos, and D. Dimitriadis, "
Short-time instantaneous frequency and bandwidth features for speech recognition
,"
in Proc. Automatic Speech Recogn. and Underst. Workshop (ASRU),
Merano, Italy, Dec. 2009.
T. Kannetis, and A. Potamianos, "
Towards Adapting Fantasy, Curiosity and Challenge in Multimodal Dialogue
Systems for Preschoolers
,"
in Proc. Int'l Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Boston, MA, Nov. 2009.
T. Kannetis, A. Potamianos, and G.N. Yannakakis, "
Fantasy, Curiosity and Challenge as Adaptation Indicators in Multimodal Dialog
Systems for Preschoolers
,"
in Proc. Workshop of Child, Computer and Interaction (WOCCI), Boston, MA, Nov. 2009.
M. Gerosa, D. Giuliani, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos, "
A Review of ASR Technologies for Children's Speech
,"
in Proc. Workshop of Child, Computer and Interaction (WOCCI), Boston, MA, Nov. 2009.
P. Tsiakoulis, and A. Potamianos, "
Statistical Analysis of Amplitude Modulation in Speech Signals using an AM-FM Model
,"
in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.
G. Evangelopoulos, A. Zlatintsi, G. Skoumas, K. Rapantzikos, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, and Y. Avrithis, "
Video Event Detection and Summarization Using Audio, Visual and Text Saliency
,"
in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.
S. Dimopoulos, A. Potamianos, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C.-H. Lee, "
Multiple Time Resolution Analysis of Speech Signals Using MCE Training with Application to Speech Recognition
,"
in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.
V. Farantouri, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "
Linguistic Analysis of Spontaneous Children Speech
",
in Proc. Workshop of Child, Computer and Interaction (WOCCI), Chania, Greece, Oct. 2008.
M. Perakakis and A. Potamianos, "
Multimodal System Evaluation using Modality Efficiency and Synergy Metrics
",
in Proc. Int'l Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Chania, Greece, Oct. 2008.
G. Evangelopoulos, K. Rapantzikos, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, A. Zlatintsi and Y. Avrithis, "
Movie Summarization Based On Audio-Visual Saliency Detection
",
in Proc. Intl Conference on Image Processing (ICIP),
San Diego, California, Oct. 2008.
A. Tegos, V. Karkaletsis, and A. Potamianos, "
Learning of Semantic Relations Between Ontology Concepts Using Statistical Techniques
",
in Proc. HLIE Workshop , Antwerp, Belgium, Sept. 2008.
M. Maragakis and A. Potamianos, "
Region-Based Vocal Tract Length Normalization for ASR
",
in Proc. Interspeech , Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 2008.
K. Mokios, A. Potamianos, and N.  Sidiropoulos, "
On the Effectiveness of PARAFAC-Based Estimation in Blind Speech Separation
",
in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), Las Vegas, Nevada, Apr. 2008.
E. Iosif and A. Potamianos, "
Unsupervised semantic similarity computation using web search engines
,'' in Proc. Intern. Conf. on Web Intelligence ,
Silicon Valley, USA, Nov. 2007.
E. Sanchez-Soto, K. Daoudi, and A. Potamianos, "
Unsupervised stream weight computation in a segmentation task: Application to audio-visual speech
recognition
,'' in Proc. Intern. Conf. on Signal Proc. and
Communications , Dubai, UAE, Nov. 2007.
M. Perakakis and A. Potamianos, "
The effect of input mode on inactivity and interaction times of multimodal systems
,'' in Internat. Conf. on
Multimodal Interfaces , Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 2007.
A. Potamianos and S. Narayanan, "
A review of the acoustic and linguistic
properties of children's speech
,'' in Proc. Intern. Workshop on
Multimedia Signal Processing , Chania, Greece, Oct. 2007.
S. Siltanen et al, "
Multimodal user interface for augmented assembly
,'' in
Proc. Intern. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing , Chania,
Greece, Oct. 2007.
E. Iosif and A. Potamianos, "
A soft-clustering algorithm for automatic induction of semantic classes
,'' in Proc. Interspeech , Antwerp,
Belgium, Aug. 2007.
D. Dimitriadis, J. Segura, L. Garcia, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, and
V. Pitsikalis, "
Advanced front-end for robust speech recognition in
extremely adverse environments
,'' in Proc. Interspeech , Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 2007.
A. Katsamanis, P. Tsiakoulis, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "
Investigations in articulatory synthesis
,'' in Proc. Intenat. Conf. on Phonetics ,
Saarbrucken, Germany, Aug. 2007.
E. Sanchez-Soto, A. Potamianos, and K. Daoudi, "
Unsupervised stream weight computation using anti-models
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust.,
Speech, and Signal Process. , Hawaii, USA, Apr. 2007.
E. Iosif, A. Tegos, A. Pangos, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos, "
Unsupervised combination of metrics for semantic class induction
,'' in IEEE/ACM Workshop on Spoken Language Technology , Aruba, Dec. 2006.
M. Perakakis, M. Toutoudakis, and A. Potamianos, "
Blending speech and visual input in multimodal dialogue systems
,'' in IEEE/ACM Workshop on Spoken
Language Technology , Aruba, Dec. 2006.
A. Potamianos et al, "
Towards speaker and enviromental robustness in ASR: the HIWIRE project
,'' in ITRW Workshop on Speech Recognition and
Intrinsic Variation , Toulouse, France, May 2006.
A. Potamianos, E. Sanchez-Soto, and K. Daoudi, "
Stream weight computation for multi-stream classifiers
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech,
and Signal Process. , Toulouse, France, May 2006.
K. Mokios, N. Sidiropoulos, and A. Potamianos, "
Blind speech separation algorithm using PARAFAC and integer least squares
,'' in Proc.
Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Toulouse, France,
May 2006.
P. Karageorgakis, A. Potamianos, and I. Klasinas, "
Towards incorporating language morphology into statistical machine translation systems
,'' in Proc. Automatic Speech Recogn. and Underst. Workshop , Cancun, Mexico, Dec.
2005.
A. Pangos, E. Iosif, A. Potamianos, and E. Fosler-Lussier,
Combining statistical similarity measures for automatic induction of semantic
classes
,'' in Proc. Automatic Speech Recogn. and Underst. Workshop ,
Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2005.
D. Dimitriadis, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "
Auditory Teager energy cepstrum coefficients for robust speech recognition
,'' in Proc. European
Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology , Lisbon, Portugal, Sept.
2005.
S. Yildirim, C. Lee, S. Lee, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "
Detecting politeness and frustration state of a child in a conversational computer game
,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology ,
Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2005.
A. Potamianos, E. Ammicht, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "
Modality tracking in the multimodal Bell Labs Communicator
,'' in Proc. Automatic Speech
Recogn. and Underst. Workshop , St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dec. 2003.
A. Potamianos, "Novel features for robust speech recognition,'' in invited presentation to the Conf. of the Acoustical Society of America ,
Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2002.
M. Walker et al, "
DARPA Communicator: Cross-system results for the 2001
evaluation
,'' in Internat. Conf. Speech Language Processing ,
Colorado, Sept. 2002.
M. Walker et al, "DARPA Communicator evaluation: Progress from 2000 to
2001,'' in Internat. Conf. Speech Language Processing , Colorado,
Sept. 2002.
R. Argiles-Solsona, E. Fosler-Lussier, J. Kuo, A. Potamianos, and I. Zitouni, "
Adaptive language models for spoken dialogue systems
,'' in Proc.
Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Orlando, Florida,
May 2002.
D. Dimitriadis, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "
Modulation features for speech
recognition
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal
Process. , Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
S. Lee, E. Ammicht, E. Fosler-Lussier, J. Kuo, and A. Potamianos, "
Spoken dialogue evaluation for the Bell Labs Communicator system
,'' in Proc. Human Language Technology Conf. , San Diego, California, Mar. 2002.
M. Tsangaris and A. Potamianos, "
AGORA: A GUI approach to multimodal user interfaces
,'' in Proc. Human Language Technology Conf. , San Diego,
California, Mar. 2002.
E. Ammicht, A. Potamianos, and E. Fosler-Lussier, "
Ambiguity representation and resolution in spoken dialogue systems
,'' in Proc. European Conf. on
Speech Communication and Technology , Aalborg, Denmark, Oct. 2001.
M. Galley, E. Fosler-Lussier, and A. Potamianos, "
Hybrid natural language generation for spoken dialogue systems
,'' in Proc. European Conf. on
Speech Communication and Technology , Aalborg, Denmark, Oct. 2001.
A. Pargellis, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Potamianos, and C.-H. Lee, "
Metrics for measuring domain-independence of semantic classes
,'' in Proc. European
Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology , Aalborg, Denmark, Oct. 2001.
M. Walker et al, "DARPA Communicator dialog travel planning systems: the
June 2000 evaluation,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech
Communication and Technology , Aalborg, Denmark, Oct. 2001.
A. Potamianos and V. Weerackody, "
Soft-feature decoding for speech recognition
over wireless channels
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech,
and Signal Process. , Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.
A. Pargellis and A. Potamianos, "
Cross-domain classification using generalized
domain acts
,'' in Internat. Conf. Speech Language Processing , Beijing,
China, Oct. 2000.
A. Potamianos, E. Ammicht, and H.-K. Kuo, "
Dialogue management in the Bell Labs communicator system
,'' in Internat. Conf. Speech Language
Processing , Beijing, China, Oct. 2000.
A. Potamianos and H.-K. Kuo, "
Speech understanding using finite state transducers
,'' in Internat. Conf. Speech Language Processing , Beijing,
China, Oct. 2000.
W. Reichl, V. Weerackody, and A. Potamianos, "A codec for speech recognition
in a wireless system,'' in Proc. EUROCOMM , Munich, Germany, May 2000.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
Time-frequency distributions for automatic speech recognition
,'' in Proc. Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition
and Understanding , Keystone, Colorado, Dec. 1999.
S. Narayanan, A. Potamianos, and H. Wang, "Multimodal systems for children:
Building a prototype,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication
and Technology , Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 1999.
G. Potamianos and A. Potamianos, "Speaker adaptation for audio-visual speech
recognition,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and
Technology , Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 1999.
A. Potamianos, G. Riccardi, and S. Narayanan, "Categorical understanding using
statistical n-gram models,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech
Communication and Technology , Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 1999.
A. Potamianos et al, "
Design principles and tools for multimodal dialog
systems
,'' in Proc. ESCA Workshop Interact. Dialog. Multi-Modal Syst. ,
Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 1999.
G. Riccardi, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "
Language model adaptation for spoken dialog systems
,'' in Internat. Conf. Speech Language Processing ,
Australia, Oct. 1998.
S. Okawa, E. Brocchieri, and A. Potamianos, "
Multi-band speech recognition in noisy environments
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and
Signal Process. , Seattle, Washington, May 1998.
A. Potamianos and S. Narayanan, "
Spoken dialog systems for children
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. ,
Seattle,Washington, pp. 197-201, May 1998.
S. Lee, A. Potamianos, and S. Narayanan, "
Analysis of children's speech:
Duration, pitch and formants,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech
Communication and Technology , Rhodes, Greece, pp. 473-476, Sept. 1997.
P. Maragos and A. Potamianos, "On using fractal features of speech sounds in
automatic speech recognition,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech
Communication and Technology , Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2531-2534, Sept. 1997.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "Speech analysis and synthesis using an
AM-FM modulation model,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech
Communication and Technology , Rhodes, Greece, pp. 1355-1358, Sept. 1997.
A. Potamianos, S. Narayanan, and S. Lee, "Automatic speech recognition for
children,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and
Technology , Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2371-2374, Sept. 1997.
I. Zeljkovic, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos, "Unsupervised HMM
adaptation based on speech-silence discrimination,'' in Proc. European
Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology , Rhodes, Greece,
pp. 2055-2058, Sept. 1997.
A. Potamianos and R. C. Rose, "
On combining frequency warping and spectral
shaping in HMM-based speech recognition
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on
Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Munich, Germany, Apr. 1997.
R. C. Rose and A. Potamianos, "Improving robustness in HMM based speech
recognition through simultaneous frequency warping and spectral shaping,'' in
ESCA-NATO Workshop on Robust Speech Recognition , Pont-a-Mousson,
France, Apr. 1997.
A. Potamianos and R. C. Rose, "A feature-space transformation for telephone
based speech recognition,'' in Proc. European Conf. on Speech
Communication and Technology , Madrid, Spain, Sept. 1995.
P. Maragos, A. Potamianos, and B. Santhanam, "
Instantaneous energy operators:
Applications to speech processing and communications
,'' in IEEE Workshop
on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing , Thessaloniki, Greece, June 1995.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
Speech formant frequency and bandwidth tracking
using multiband energy demodulation
,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on
Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Detroit, MI, May 1995.
A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, "
Applications of speech processing using an
AM-FM modulation model and energy operators
,'' in Proc. European
Signal Process. Conf. , Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. III: 1669-1672, Sept.
1994.
P. Maragos, T. F. Quatieri, J. F. Kaiser, and A. Potamianos, "Demodulation of
AM-FM resonances in speech using energy separation,'' in presentation to the Conf. of the Acoustical Society of America , Boston,
MA, June 1994.
H. M. Hanson, P. Maragos, and A. Potamianos, "Finding speech formants and
modulations via energy separation: With application to a vocoder,'' in Proc. Internat. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process. , Minneapolis,
MN, Apr. 1993.
J. Diamesis and A. Potamianos, "Tridiagonal state-space realization of a class
of 2-D transfer functions,'' in Proc. of the 25th Conf. on Information
Sciences and Systems , Baltimore, MD, pp. 249-253, Mar. 1991.
Thesis
Patents
A. Potamianos and R. C. Rose, "A Time-Varying Feature Space Preprocessing Procedure for Telephone Based Speech Recognition," U.S. Patent No 5765124, awarded to Lucent Technologies, 1995.
A. Potamianos and R. C. Rose, "Combining Frequency Warping And Spectral Shaping In HMM Based Speech Recognition," U.S. Patent No 5930753, awarded to AT&T, 1999.
I. Zeljkovic, S. Narayanan, and A. Potamianos, "Unsupervised HMM adaptation based on speech-silence discrimination," U.S. Patent No 6076057, awarded to AT&T, 2000.
V. Weerackody, W. Reichl and A. Potamianos, "Soft feature decoding in a distributed automatic speech recognition system for use over wireless channels," U.S. Patent No. 6,760,699, awarded to Lucent Technologies, 2004.
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The Yellow Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
by Andrew Lang
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1894
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Lang, A. (Ed.). (1894). The Yellow Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 3.6
- Word Count: 1,032
- Genre: Fairy Tale/Folk Tale
- Keywords: fake friendship, greed
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A cat had made acquaintance with a mouse, and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her, and to go shares in the housekeeping.
‘But we must provide for the winter or else we shall suffer hunger,’ said the Cat. ‘You, little Mouse, cannot venture everywhere in case you run at last into a trap.’
 But they did not know where to put it. At length, after long consultation, the Cat said, ‘I know of no place where it could be better put than in the church. No one will trouble to take it away from there. We will hide it in a corner, and we won’t touch it till we are in want.’
So the little pot was placed in safety; but it was not long before the Cat had a great longing for it, and said to the Mouse, ‘I wanted to tell you, little Mouse, that my cousin has a little son, white with brown spots, and she wants me to be godmother to it. Let me go out to-day, and do you take care of the house alone.’
‘Yes, go certainly,’ replied the Mouse, ‘and when you eat anything good, think of me; I should very much like a drop of the red christening wine.’
But it was all untrue. The Cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother.  Then she took a walk on the roofs of the town, looked at the view, stretched herself out in the sun, and licked her lips whenever she thought of the little pot of fat. As soon as it was evening she went home again.
‘Ah, here you are again!’ said the Mouse; ‘you must certainly have had an enjoyable day.’
‘It went off very well,’ answered the Cat.
‘What was the child’s name?’ asked the Mouse.
‘Top Off,’ said the Cat drily.
‘Topoff!’ echoed the Mouse, ‘it is indeed a wonderful and curious name. Is it in your family?’
‘What is there odd about it?’ said the Cat. ‘It is not worse than Breadthief, as your godchild is called.’
Not long after this another great longing came over the Cat. She said to the Mouse, ‘You must again be kind enough to look after the house alone, for I have been asked a second time to stand godmother, and as this child has a white ring round its neck, I cannot refuse.’
The kind Mouse agreed, but the Cat slunk under the town wall to the church, and ate up half of the pot of fat. ‘Nothing tastes better,’ said she, ‘than what one eats by oneself,’ and she was very much pleased with her day’s work.
When she came home the Mouse asked, ‘What was this child called?’
‘Half Gone,’ answered the Cat.
‘Halfgone! What a name! I have never heard it in my life. I don’t believe it is in the calendar.’
Soon the Cat’s mouth began to water once more after her licking business. ‘All good things in threes,’ she said to the Mouse; ‘I have again to stand godmother. The child is quite black, and has very white paws, but not a single white hair on its body. This only happens once in two years, so you will let me go out?’
‘Topoff!  That comes of not going out in the day.’
The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made the house tidy; but the greedy Cat ate the fat every bit up. ‘When it is all gone one can be at rest,’ she said to herself, and at night she came home sleek and satisfied. The Mouse asked at once after the third child’s name. ‘It won’t please you any better,’ said the Cat, ‘he was called Clean Gone.’
‘Cleangone!’ repeated the Mouse. ‘I do not believe that name has been printed any more than the others. Cleangone! What can it mean?’
She shook her head, curled herself up, and went to sleep. From this time on no one asked the Cat to stand godmother; but when the winter came and there was nothing to be got outside, the Mouse remembered their provision and said, ‘Come, Cat, we will go to our pot of fat which we have stored away; it will taste very good.’
‘Yes, indeed,’ answered the Cat; ‘ It will taste as good to you as if you stretched your thin tongue out of the window.’ They started off, and when they reached it they found the pot in its place, but quite empty!
‘Ah,’ said the Mouse, ‘now I know what has happened! It has all come out!  You have eaten it all when you stood godmother; first the top off, then half of it gone, then——’
‘Will you be quiet!’ screamed the Cat. ‘Another word and I will eat you up.’
‘Cleangone’ was already on the poor Mouse’s tongue, and scarcely was it out than the Cat made a spring at her, seized and swallowed her.
You see that is the way of the world.


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Our goal is to create a safe and efficient learning environment that enables our students to succeed and become benificial members of society tomorrow. By doing so, we are helping the future generation innovate new pieces of technology. For example, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk is an exceptional source of inspiration to our generation becasue he is accomplishing what seemed impossible only about 3 years ago. Ask yourselves this question? Do you want your child to succeed in an interesting field and potentially become our next Elon Musk.


Bison is an incredibly powerful parser generator tool. However most of the examples, and tutorials demonstrate Bison’s parsing ability, using on-the-fly computation instead of building a Syntax Tree. Bison is fully capable to generate the front-end of a simple compiler, but to do so, we have to build a syntax tree. Come to find out, building a syntax tree with Bison isn’t that difficult, and the key is how one leverages the semantic actions. In this post, we’ll look at a basic introduction to bison, then how to build a parse tree for a simple in-fix algebraic statement.
Bison is a parser generator, and when combined with Flex (which we look at in a future post), can generate a very powerful, and very fast parser, and syntatic analyzer. Semantic analysis is still the responsibly of the language implementer. These tools have different computational power. Flex recognizes the simplest languages1, the regular languages. Regular languages are those which can be recognized with a finite-state machine, i.e. languages which do not require memory. Flex forms the tokenizer, or lexer of the compiler. It breaks the stream of characters into groups of identifiers called Tokens.
Flex is very easy to use. It consists of 3 sections. Each section is separated by a “%%” token. The first section setups up options. The next section defines all the tokens and their mapping to Non-Terminals. The last section is for raw C code to define helper, and other useful functions.
%option noyywrap yylineno
%{
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include "XParser.hpp" //Include the Bison file.
extern "C"
{
int yylex();
}
%}
%%
[ \t\n] ; //Ignore White Space
"loop" { return LOOP_KEYWORD; };
[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]* { return IDENTIFIER; }
%%
/* Put other C Code */
This simple fragment of flex code will parse the input stream, and recognize the word “loop” as a keyword, and using he regular expression, will recognize any combination of letters and numbers, and return that value as an Non-Terminal denoted as IDENTIFIER.
In the next post I’ll show Bison will consume these tokens and build the parse tree.
- This isn’t entirely true. Flex implements POSIX regular expressions, which have more computational power than regular languages. However, for the sake of simplcity, we’ll say Flex recognizes regular languages.


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A great post in which Ian Griffiths smashes the 4 common myths used by almost every running shop and publication, including Runner's World, when it comes to selecting running shoes for a runner.
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Don Berwick, M.D., Administrator of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
I am pleased today to bring good news to you about the health and future of Medicare. As a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended, the financial outlook for Medicare is substantially improved compared to prior evaluations. This improvement is not without some important qualifications, but it nonetheless represents a very positive change in the expected operations of the Medicare trust funds.
In 2009, Medicare provided health insurance coverage to 46.3 million people. Total Medicare expenditures were $509 billion and income was $508 billion. The average Medicare benefit per enrollee was $11,743. These Medicare expenditures were slightly lower than estimated in last year’s Trustees Report. Within the total, Part A and Part D spending were each slightly lower than estimated, while Part B outlays were slightly higher. Medicare expenditures in 2009 represented 3.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Last year, these costs were projected to increase steadily (and rapidly) to over 11 percent of GDP by the end of the long-range, 75-year projection period. In the new report, based on the cost-containment efforts of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare is projected to represent 6.4 percent of GDP in 2084.
Other good news? The Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be able to pay all benefits on time until 2029—12 years longer than last year’s estimate of 2017. And the long-range actuarial deficit for HI is only one-sixth of its prior level—specifically, 0.66 percent of taxable payroll versus 3.88 percent.
These favorable changes depend critically on a specific ACA provision, which will slow the rate of growth in Medicare payments to most categories of providers by about 1.1 percent annually in anticipation of improvement in productivity. It is important to note that the effect of these adjustments will reduce payment rates over time, and it is possible that providers would not be able to slow their cost growth correspondingly.
However, as someone who has spent my career improving care for patients, I have seen firsthand the substantial improvements in quality and cost-effectiveness that can be achieved by health care providers. As a result of this provision, providers will have strong financial incentives and many other supports to find more efficient ways to care for patients that not only reduce costs but more importantly improve quality.
Our agency intends to work with providers to support these improvements and carefully monitor the impact of this provision on access to high quality care for all beneficiaries. Despite the uncertanties, the picture is far more positive than last year - with the Affordable Care Act, we can make the future of Medicare secure.


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public static interface AudioSink.Listener
Listener for audio sink events.
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods Modifier and Type Method Description default void
onAudioCapabilitiesChanged()
Called when audio capabilities changed.default void
onAudioSinkError(Exception audioSinkError)
Called whenAudioSink
has encountered an error.default void
onOffloadBufferEmptying()
Called when the offload buffer has been partially emptied.default void
onOffloadBufferFull()
Called when the offload buffer has been filled completely.default void
onPositionAdvancing(long playoutStartSystemTimeMs)
Called when the audio sink's position has increased for the first time since it was last paused or flushed.void
onPositionDiscontinuity()
Called when the audio sink handles a buffer whose timestamp is discontinuous with the last buffer handled since it was reset.void
onSkipSilenceEnabledChanged(boolean skipSilenceEnabled)
Called when skipping silences is enabled or disabled.void
onUnderrun(int bufferSize, long bufferSizeMs, long elapsedSinceLastFeedMs)
Called when the audio sink runs out of data.
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onPositionDiscontinuity
void onPositionDiscontinuity()
Called when the audio sink handles a buffer whose timestamp is discontinuous with the last buffer handled since it was reset.
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onPositionAdvancing
default void onPositionAdvancing(long playoutStartSystemTimeMs)
Called when the audio sink's position has increased for the first time since it was last paused or flushed.- Parameters:
playoutStartSystemTimeMs
- The approximate derivedSystem.currentTimeMillis()
at which playout started. Only valid if the audio track has not underrun.
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onUnderrun
void onUnderrun(int bufferSize, long bufferSizeMs, long elapsedSinceLastFeedMs)
Called when the audio sink runs out of data.An audio sink implementation may never call this method (for example, if audio data is consumed in batches rather than based on the sink's own clock).
- Parameters:
bufferSize
- The size of the sink's buffer, in bytes.bufferSizeMs
- The size of the sink's buffer, in milliseconds, if it is configured for PCM output.C.TIME_UNSET
if it is configured for encoded audio output, as the buffered media can have a variable bitrate so the duration may be unknown.elapsedSinceLastFeedMs
- The time since the sink was last fed data, in milliseconds.
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onSkipSilenceEnabledChanged
void onSkipSilenceEnabledChanged(boolean skipSilenceEnabled)
Called when skipping silences is enabled or disabled.- Parameters:
skipSilenceEnabled
- Whether skipping silences is enabled.
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onOffloadBufferEmptying
default void onOffloadBufferEmptying()
Called when the offload buffer has been partially emptied.
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onOffloadBufferFull
default void onOffloadBufferFull()
Called when the offload buffer has been filled completely.
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onAudioSinkError
default void onAudioSinkError(Exception audioSinkError)
Called whenAudioSink
has encountered an error.If the sink writes to a platform
AudioTrack
, this will called for allAudioTrack
errors.This method being called does not indicate that playback has failed, or that it will fail. The player may be able to recover from the error (for example by recreating the AudioTrack, possibly with different settings) and continue. Hence applications should not implement this method to display a user visible error or initiate an application level retry (
Player.Listener.onPlayerError(com.google.android.exoplayer2.PlaybackException)
is the appropriate place to implement such behavior). This method is called to provide the application with an opportunity to log the error if it wishes to do so.Fatal errors that cannot be recovered will be reported wrapped in a
ExoPlaybackException
byPlayer.Listener.onPlayerError(PlaybackException)
.- Parameters:
audioSinkError
- The error that occurred. Typically anAudioSink.InitializationException
, aAudioSink.WriteException
, or anAudioSink.UnexpectedDiscontinuityException
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onAudioCapabilitiesChanged
default void onAudioCapabilitiesChanged()
Called when audio capabilities changed.
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Open philosophy
When can a project be defined as open-source? When, as the word says, you open the source code and make it available to other people.
Of course, this is the first concept behind the open-source philosophy. But there is more.
Open source license
To make a project open-source first, you need to release it with a certain license. In fact, there are a lot of them. They all share the main philosophy, but differ from each other in small points. Here are some examples:
- Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)
- 3-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license (BSD-3-Clause)
- 2-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license (BSD-2-Clause)
- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
- MIT license (MIT)
But which one to choose?
Choose license
First, you need to understand who your project is for. For example, do you want everyone to be able to take a cue from your project and redistribute an improved version under a different name? Then you need an MIT license. Do you want your project to be shared with others and others to contribute directly to your project? Then you will need a GPL license (v2/v3). If, on the other hand, your goal is to simply work in a team, then you will choose an Apache license.
There are many types of licenses and you can create your own. A good reference point to understand what to choose is choosealicense.com
What else?
If it seems all over and done with, well you’re wrong. You’ve made your project open-source via an open license, and that’s a good thing and right, but there’s more to it.
In 1998, some people like Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel), Tim O’Reilly (founder and head of O’reilly Media), Bruce Perens (co-founder of the GNU / Debian project) and Eric S. Raymond (free blogger) coined the term open-source.
As I said before, open-source is a philosophy, a thought, something abstract applicable to something real. This is an excerpt from the Open Source Definition below:
Free redistribution. The license cannot prevent any party from selling or leasing the software. Anyone must be able to make as many copies as he wants, sell or give them away, and he doesn’t have to pay anyone to do that.
Source code. The program must include the source code. Deliberately obfuscated code is not allowed. This is because the source code is needed to modify or repair a program.
Derivative works. The license must allow modifications and derivative works and must allow their distribution under the same terms as the license of the original software, as the software is of little use if it cannot be modified for maintenance, for example for the correction of errors or porting. on other operating systems.
Integrity of the author’s source code. The license may prohibit the source code from being distributed in modified form only if the license permits the distribution of “patch files” with the source code for the purpose of improving the program at the time of construction.
No discrimination against individuals or groups. The license must be applicable to all, without any discrimination however noble the objective of the discrimination may be. For example, the license of use cannot be denied even to police forces of dictatorial regimes.
No discrimination of sectors. Similarly to the previous condition, this prevents licensing of use in certain sectors from being denied, however deplorable these may be. Therefore, the use of such software to produce chemical weapons or other instruments of mass destruction cannot be prevented.
License Distribution. The rights to the program must apply to everyone to whom the program is redistributed, without the need to run an additional license.
The license does not have to be specific to a product. The rights to a program must not depend on the program being part of a particular software distribution.
The license must not contaminate other software. The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed one.
The license must be technologically neutral. No terms of the license need to be proclaimed on any single technology or interface style.
From this excerpt it is clear that everything concerning the freedom of oneself and of the others on something that is created (a software, but it can also be a project of a very complicated origami on paper), no longer has an individual property, designed on the single individual, but reflects the will of many people, without considering irrelevant human aspects, such as sex, religion, sexual orientation, economic prosperity and much more. When you decide to open source your own project, you’re not just sharing something, you’re creating a piece of the future for all of humanity.
The Zen
I am an open-source developer who develops his projects and thoughts in Python, a programming language that puts simplicity first and versatility second.
With every open source project I start, I reread this code:
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea-- let's do more of those!
>>>
This not only helps me to write a beautiful and readable code (for me and for others, since it will have to be open-source), but consistent with a philosophy, that of the Python Software Foundation.
From that list of (apparently random) advice and words, there is indeed an ethics; here, I have created one regarding the open-source philosophy.
Conclusion
The Zen of Open Source, by Matteo Guadrini
Inclusive is better than exclusive
Abstract is better than specific
For many it is better than for himself
Modular is better than monolithic
Think twice about implementation
Explain well the reasons for your project
Be as specific as possible
Think like a child and write like an adult
Start with a simple project - if it's complex to explain, it's a bad idea
Life is one, don't be afraid to express yourself or make mistakes - a community is ready to correct you
Never say it's impossible - there's always a way
What you thought is not the only way - try them all
Be free to choose
I always start a project thinking about these phrases.


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We have been using data sets already stored as R objects. A data scientist will rarely have such luck and will have to import data into R from either a file, a database, or other sources. Currently, one of the most common ways of storing and sharing data for analysis is through electronic spreadsheets. A spreadsheet stores data in rows and columns. It is basically a file version of a data frame. When saving such a table to a computer file, one needs a way to define when a new row or column ends and the other begins. This in turn defines the cells in which single values are stored.
When creating spreadsheets with text files, like the ones created with a simple text editor, a new row is defined with return and columns are separated with some predefined special character. The most common characters are comma (,
), semicolon (;
), space (`) and tab (
or
`, a preset number of spaces). Here is an example of what a comma separated file looks like if we open it with a basic text editor:
The first row contains column names rather than data. We call this a header, and when we read-in data from a spreadsheet it is important to know if the file has a header or not. Most reading functions assume there is a header. To know if the file has a header, it helps to look at the file before trying to read it. This can be done with a text editor or with RStudio. In RStudio, we can do this by either opening the file in the editor or navigating to the file location, double clicking on the file and hitting View File.
However, not all spreadsheet files are in a text format. Google Sheets, which are rendered on a browser, are an example. Another example is the proprietary format used by Microsoft Excel. These can’t be viewed with a text editor. Despite this, due to the widespread use of Microsoft Excel software, this format is widely used.
We start this chapter by describing the difference between text (ASCII), Unicode, and binary files and how this affects how we import them. We then explain the concepts of file paths and working directories, which are essential to understand to import data effectively. We then introduce the readr and readxl package and the functions that are available to import spreadsheets into R. Finally, we provide some recommendations on how to store and organize data in files. More complex challenges such as extracting data from web pages or PDF documents are left for the Data Wrangling part of the book.
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The Fortran MPI-2 language bindings have been designed to be
compatible with the Fortran 90 standard (and later). These bindings
are in most cases compatible with Fortran 77, implicit-style
interfaces.
Rationale.
Fortran 90 contains numerous features designed to
make it a more ``modern'' language than Fortran 77. It seems natural
that MPI should be able to take advantage of these new features with
a set of bindings tailored to Fortran 90. MPI does not (yet) use
many of these features because of a number of technical
difficulties.
( End of rationale.)
MPI defines two levels of Fortran support, described in
Sections Basic Fortran Support
and Extended Fortran Support
. In the rest of this
section, ``Fortran'' and ``Fortran 90'' shall refer to ``Fortran 90''
and its successors, unless qualified.
1. Basic Fortran Support
An implementation with this level of Fortran support provides
the original Fortran bindings specified in MPI-1, with small
additional requirements specified in Section Basic Fortran Support
.
A compliant MPI-2 implementation providing a Fortran interface
must provide Extended Fortran Support unless the target compiler
does not support modules or KIND-parameterized types.
2. Extended Fortran Support
An implementation with this level of Fortran support provides
Basic Fortran Support plus additional features that specifically
support Fortran 90, as described in Section Extended Fortran Support
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Grid
Grids encourage consistency across diverse platforms and screen sizes for positioning elements. Maintain the consistency across different screens allows maintain order and create a visual structure with the content. Is based on a 12-column grid layout.
Layouts
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Desktop primary layout.
Grid system
To facilitate many different screen sizes, we use an 8px grid system that expands the margin between columns in multiples of 8px. This helps in creating responsive pages from fixed-sized items that work on many devices.
Elements
Items follow the 8px grid.
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Typography
Typography does not use a traditional baseline grid. In contrast, line heights are set in 8px increments, and spacing is measured from the edges of text boxes.
Spacing
To facilitate many different screen sizes, we use an 8px grid system that expands the margin between columns in multiples of 8px. This helps in creating responsive pages from fixed-sized items that work on many devices.


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Software development outsourcing is divided into two types of firms:
Both firms function differently in terms of the duration the team collaborates for, the specification process, and the services provided.
IT service firms:
IT service engagements typically move through a careful bid process where the end product is sufficiently specified that multiple parties can provide detailed responses on cost and time. Often times these projects are large requiring many resources that need to be put in place for a defined period such as 6 months but then the project team is expected to disband. As a result low attrition and ongoing collaborative engagement as requirements change that are so important with product firms is relatively not important in IT engagements.
Product development firms:
Product development (especially for early stage customers) is quite different from the IT development process. Here often the product requirements are not well understood beyond a high level specification. Many companies have moved to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) model where the objective is to get a product completed quickly so that it can be the basis of direct customer feedback as to final requirements. Since there is typically generations of product developed as the product and market mature there is a need to have development teams that stay together over long periods since they will have developed significant know-how in the development process.
When outsourcing companies, hire firms that have software development experience with your chosen technology or platform. For example, if the project is to utilize embedded Linux, choose a firm that has the desired senior level guidance, critical mass of expertise to draw from and enough recruits for expansion of the team when necessary.
Services required to successfully turn a raw idea into a product include selection and development of:
Typically, to develop a new product, a team of 3 to 10 developers is sufficient. Some software development firms can be quite large and will not look at engagements that have small teams. On the other hand too small a software development firm can mean that they do not have the breadth of technology or services required for a delivered product. They can also lack the engineering process and infrastructure required to deliver a product on time and on budget.
Avoid choosing a software development firm that is too large or too small. Problems arising from choosing:
Too small a company size:
Too large a company size:
Some countries and regions are better suited for outsourcing software product development. Points to consider when choosing a location for development include:
For example products requiring web development and PHP are great targets for development in Latin America. On the other hand, Eastern Europe is a better hub for embedded and Linux development.
Use the "follow the sun" model. When implementing QA, as well as development, take advantage of firms that have development centers separate from their QA centers. Not doing so pushes the product timeline, a current problem for firms operating in central Europe. The advantage of say developing in Europe and performing QA in Latin America is increased productivity of 15 hours in a 24-hour period.
What about choosing a US headquartered firm? Doing so has enormous advantages:
Having high engineering talent is useless if the country of location does not offer the protection needed for a product company. In contrast, outsourcing companies in Japan, the European Union and most of Latin America are safe bets. These countries/regions have homologized IP laws consistent with the US approach.
For any successful business, customers should expect to be an active partner and not just another customer. How do you provide this complete customer experience to help your company thrive?
Focus on US-based software product development companies that are oftentimes led by software technology executives. These companies provide significant added value by establishing business connections with:
How do you bring more to a company when price is not a major issue? Consider this:
If price is of major concern, look to outsourcing companies willing to work on a partial equity basis. As an additional benefit to a partial equity model is that both companies interest will be aligned to the objective of minimizing costs.


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No Place to Hide: Book Review
Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State was one of the first books I read that wasn’t about startups or marketing. While the surveillance issues were in the news constantly, Snowden being mentioned every day, and even the Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning débâcle, the text was extremely relevant and a must-read.
The book is in three parts:
- The story of how Glenn Greenwald initially got in contact with Edward Snowden and what happened after they met.
- The leak — scans of all the documents that prove everyone is being watched.
- What it means. Some psychological nuances that are a result of everything covered so far.
Snowden
The story of Snowden and Greenwald meeting was very enthralling. It played out like a Bond movie and kept me eager to learn more and what will come about from their relationship. Snowden initially contacted him through PGP which is an encryption tool used for passing data and messages securely that can’t be read by anyone without the key.
Funnily, Greenwald had never used tools or services like this so he missed the opportunity to speak with Snowden at first and had to hop through a few hoops to finally get the chance to open a dialogue. Inspired by this, you’ll notice many people’s personal websites and Twitter bios contain their key along with an MIT database of searchable public keys.
Finally, Greenwald ventures overseas to meet Snowden along with a crew including Laura Poitras who directed Citizenfour about the same encounter. Greenwald is illuminated by Snowden’s story and slowly and meticulously leaks more and more data.
What Being Watched Means
Greenwald does a great job of explaining the impact of what it means for the average person if they’re being watched. Things like the Hawthorne Effect prove it impacts people even if they’re not always thinking they’re being watched.
It raises the question that’s also addressed in the text along with numerous blog posts found on the web that most of the public doesn’t even care they’re being surveilled because they have nothing to hide.
Let the government listen in on my phone calls. I’m only talking to my grandmother about dinner plans for the weekend.
I don’t even care if anyone’s reading my texts. I’m not plotting any attacks so they won’t even bother me.
One of the better arguments against this process is if you imagine your home without curtains. You wouldn’t feel comfortable having big open windows into your home, nor would you feel comfortable removing the door form the restroom. We know what goes on in the restroom, everyone does, but that doesn’t mean we want anyone watching us do it.
Not only bad people wish to have a slice of privacy. The thesis here is just because you may have nothing to hide doesn’t mean you would be okay with giving up all your privacy.
Bonus: 1984
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts many of these themes and is extremely prominent in Greenwald’s writing. The Broadway performance of 1984 that recently closed demonstrates perfectly well the ignorance you may endure while being watched — even better than the 1984 movie starring John Hurt since the live-action played with your emotions more personally. I recommend all versions and mediums of Orwell’s writing to get a deeper understanding and more natural display of how being watched can modify behavior and impact anyone psychologically.


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The getYear()
method returns the year in the specified date according to local time. Because getYear()
does not return full years ("year 2000 problem"), it is no longer used and has been replaced by the getFullYear() method.
dateObj.getYear()
None.
The getYear()
method returns the year minus 1900; thus:
getYear()
is 100 or greater. For example, if the year is 2026, getYear()
returns 126.getYear()
is between 0 and 99. For example, if the year is 1976, getYear()
returns 76.getYear()
is less than 0. For example, if the year is 1800, getYear()
returns -100.To take into account years before and after 2000, you should use getFullYear() instead of getYear()
so that the year is specified in full.
The getYear()
method returns either a 2-digit or 4-digit year:
getYear()
is the year minus 1900. For example, if the year is 1976, the value returned is 76.getYear()
is the four-digit year. For example, if the year is 1856, the value returned is 1856. If the year is 2026, the value returned is 2026.The second statement assigns the value 95 to the variable year
.
var Xmas = new Date('December 25, 1995 23:15:00'); var year = Xmas.getYear(); // returns 95
The second statement assigns the value 100 to the variable year
.
var Xmas = new Date('December 25, 2000 23:15:00'); var year = Xmas.getYear(); // returns 100
The second statement assigns the value -100 to the variable year
.
var Xmas = new Date('December 25, 1800 23:15:00'); var year = Xmas.getYear(); // returns -100
The third statement assigns the value 95 to the variable year
, representing the year 1995.
var Xmas = new Date('December 25, 2015 23:15:00'); Xmas.setYear(95); var year = Xmas.getYear(); // returns 95
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