A Glimpse of Becoming

A Glimpse of Paradise

Having understood that most attractive programming paradigms introduced recently in declarative symbolic programming languagesneed not be provided at the detriment of one another, we also believe that they can and should coexist with the more conventional state-effecting style of explicit control and data processing of imperative programming. To this end, we language designers must provide thre...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

A Glimpse of Deformation Theory

The purpose of these notes, as suggested by the title, is not to provide any sort of comprehensive introduction to deformation theory. Rather, we attempt to convey the main ideas of the theory, with a survey of some applications. We do not explore an exhaustive list of possible topics, nor do we go into details in many proofs. However, in the case of deformations of smooth varieties we do attem...

A brief glimpse of Claudio

Received: 15 August 2005 Revised: 26 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 Meeting Claudio Ciborra was an inevitable highlight for anyone joining the Information Systems (IS) department at LSE. The tall, stalwart figure, robust and well trained, as I soon realised at the school gym, which he frequented, the only senior member of staff to do so. The distinctive and pensive face, which after...

Biometrics in a Glimpse