Digital information awareness is the process by which
people obtain knowledge about important personal
information stored on their computers. This is
usually provided graphically: when information is
hidden from view it must be summoned to the front and
users are interrupted by the system, disregarding the
costs of the interruption. A solution is to use
speech output to complement the graphics, but its use
invokes anthropomorphic feelings whose cues must be
carefully controlled if the system is to be regarded
as humanized. This book describes the design of a
speech-based assistant nased on a...

Fernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by "thousands of philosophies," all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting fragments were never published by Pessoa himself and almost the entirety of them are presented in this edition for the very first time in history. This volume exhibits Pessoa's musings and wild insights on the history of philosophy, the failures of subjectivity, and the structure of the universe to reveal an unexpectedly scholarly, facetious, and vigorous theoretical mind. Written under the pre-heteronyms...