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Professional writing tips and techniques

by Philip Yaffe

While we may think we are writing from the reader's point of view, often we aren't. Not because we don't want to, but because we have never been taught how. ...

A conversation with Danish Contractor: advancing chatbots and intelligent question-answering systems to support complex human querying

Interviewed by Bushra Anjum

While we may think we are writing from the reader's point of view, often we aren't. Not because we don't want to, but because we have never been taught how. ...

How to do a naked presentation

September 2019
by Philip Yaffe

Each "Communication Corner" essay is self-contained; however, they build on each other. For best results, before reading this essay and doing the exercise, go to the first essay "How an Ugly Duckling Became a Swan," then read each succeeding essay.

A "naked" presentation solely relies upon good storytelling. Learn how to enrapture an audience without the use of visual aids.

Students tackle the routing problem for in-traffic emissions tests

August 2019
Interviewed by Walter Tichy

Vehicle emissions tests used to be done entirely in the laboratory. However, certain car manufacturers cheated on those tests. In response, the European Union introduced emissions tests in real traffic. To make such tests meaningful, they must be performed on routes that meet certain criteria, such as the difference in elevation between start and end points and the proportion of urban and country roads. Finding suitable routes is a complex search problem. Undergraduate students from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, developed the first fully automatic solution for finding such routes. In this interview, they share how they did it.