Comments on Recent Meetings

Recent Trends in Archaeological Theory: Some Comments

 This paper selectively reviews some recent themes in archaeological theory:  a philosophical pragmatism, a turn to materiality, and understanding the past in the context of the present.  It concludes with some reflective comments on the author’s Archaeological Theory:  An Introduction, in advance of the third revised edition.

Safety Assessments and Multiplicity Adjustment: Comments on a Recent Paper

Comments on Recent Advances in Cryptoanalysis of URSA

Membership control (or access control) is a challenging problem in self-organized mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), notably because these networks typically do not involve a centralized entity that is trusted by all network participants. Moreover, even if such a central authority exists, it not only poses the security threat of a single point of failure, but also impedes the scalability and avai...

Comments on a Recent Item by Yu I Manin

The comments relate to the often overlooked, if not in fact intentionally disregarded depths of what the so called internal aspects of mathematical knowledge may involve, depths concerning among others issues such as its unreasonable effectiveness in natural sciences, to use the terms of Eugene Wigner, suggested more than four decades ago. 1. On what Appears to be a Modern Trend ... It seems ap...

Comments about the Recent Experiment of Professor

A medieval artist originally used powdered ochre and applied it on a linen sheet laid over a body using a simple frottage technique. Only the most prominent features (elbows, hands, knees, upper parts of the legs and arms) were rubbed in such a way, otherwise large distortions would have been observed (experimental observation). Therefore the sheet was removed from the body and the image free-h...