Computers--Work in progress

Computers-Work in progress.

The history of computers, particularly digital ones, dates from the first quarter of the 17th century (see ref. 1 for review). The first known machine was built by Wilhelm Schickard, a professor at Tuibingen and a friend of Kepler's. Interestingly, this occurred at the same time that Napier invented logarithms. The device was built, but it, as well as the copy for Kepler, and the inventor himse...

Work-in-progress Poster Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Computers in Education Icce 2014

This paper describes a system to aid in reviewing writing by nurses. Since 2010, we have held workshops for hospital nurses to help reduce the problem of burnout among the occupation. In workshops, novice nurses write about their specific experiences in their work. A tutor reviews their writing, and provides advice to help nurses think about their jobs differently despite their individual diffi...

Work in progress.

Work in progress.

New drugs are being developed for people with fragile X syndrome, a condition that causes learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders.

Draft : Work in Progress

I try to show that biological evolution (blindly) made use of mathematical domains long before humans existed on this planet -e.g. the domain of designs for homeostatic control systems, including negative feedback loops of various sorts, and sub-domains of the domain of chemically controlled morphogenesis discussed in Turing (1952), among many others. A feature that seems to be common to many b...