Dinner for two

Dinner for Two at Moonraker

New policies have been implemented at radio station WSND in response to the controversy arising from last September’s broadcast of the “ Radio Free Notre Dame ” program. WSND’s general manager Jim O’Brien worked with the ad m in is tra tio n to insure that a repeat of this incident could not occur. “ Things are working out well now and relations with the administration couldn’t be too much bett...

Reunion Dinner

as a success and it has been decided to repeat it this year. The dinner will be in the Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus, London, W.I., on Saturday, 21st June, 1947, at 7-30 or 8 o'clock. Several Indian psychiatrists, members of the I.A.M.C., are temporarily in London; and this letter may catch the eye of others who propose to be in the U.K. during the summer on holiday or for post-gradua...

A Business Dinner Problem

We are given suppliers and customers, and a set of tables. Every evening of the forthcoming days, there will be a dinner. Each customer must eat with each supplier exactly once, but two suppliers may meet at most once. The number of customers and the number of suppliers who can sit together at a table are bounded above by fixed parameters. What is the minimum number of evenings to be scheduled ...

Two Ingredients for My Dinner with R2D2: Integration and Adjustable Autonomy

While the tone of this paper is informal and tongue-incheek, we believe we raise two important issues in robotics and multi-modal interface research; namely, how crucial integration of multiple modes of communication are for adjustable autonomy, which in turn is crucial for having dinner with R2D2. Furthermore, we discuss how our multimodal interface to autonomous robots addresses these issues ...

An uninvited dinner guest.