Alvin Radkowsky

Alvin AuYoung : Research Statement

I am a systems researcher interested in designing, building, deploying and measuring large-scale systems. My primary research interests currently involve the application of economic theory to both fundamental and emerging problems in operating and distributed systems, including, but not limited to resource allocation and congestion pricing. The arrival of large-scale open platforms such as clou...

John Kagel and Alvin Roth Neuroeconomics

Torah Min HaShamayim: Conflicts between Religious Belief and Scientific Thinking

Just over sixty years ago, the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists was founded to resolve ‘the apparent points of conflict between scientific theory and Orthodox Judaism’ [1]. The claims of paleontology, cosmology, and especially evolutionary biology exposed contradictions with traditional beliefs that were hard to overcome – so hard, indeed, that Alvin Radkowsky (an eminent nuclear physi...

Phonetics exercises using the Alvin experiment-control software.

PURPOSE Exercises are described that were designed to provide practice in phonetic transcription for students taking an introductory phonetics course. The goal was to allow instructors to offload much of the drill that would otherwise need to be covered in class or handled with paper-and-pencil tasks using text rather than speech as input. METHOD The exercises were developed using Alvin, a ge...

Interpretation of Alvin Coburn's Ezra in pen and ink.

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), a native of Boston, was a photographer who helped develop American pictorialism. Coburn began taking photographs at the age of 8; 12 years later, he was elected as a member of the Photo-Secession, founded by Alfred Stieglitz. Coburn’s works included portraits, landscapes, symbolism, and abstract images; however, his most impressive photographs are portraits. In...