Dr. Brigitte Dix

2 Philippe Flajolet and Brigitte Vall

To Jonathan Borwein, on the occasion of his award of a Doctorate Honoris Causa Abstract. There are known algorithms based on continued fractions for comparing fractions and for determining the sign of 2 2 determinants. The analysis of such extremely simple algorithms leads to an incursion into a surprising variety of domains. We take the reader through a light tour of dynamical systems (symboli...

INFORMATION PROCESSING, CONTEXT and PRIVACY Alan Dix

This paper is about an old concept, data processing, but one that has taken on new meaning with the increasing complexity and interconnection of systems and the burgeoning of expert systems and connectionism. Classical information theory has been found to be inadequate even in the relatively formal context of security, but this inadequacy is intensified when we consider more human issues like p...

Dhaval Vyas – Alan Dix – Anton Nijholt

Frameworks such as activity theory, distributed cognition and structuration theory, amongst others, have shown that detailed study of contextual settings where users work (or live) could help the design of interactive systems. However, these frameworks do not adequately focus on accounting for the materiality (and embodiment) of the contextual settings. Within the IST-EU funded AMIDA project (A...

On Viewing a Portrait by Otto Dix.

T5 Offloaded iSCSI with T10-DIX

Executive Summary There are many sources of data integrity errors within storage networks and devices. The T10 (SCSI) standards committee developed the Data Integrity Field specification (DIF) to provide protection within storage disks by extending the size of disk sectors by 8 bytes, which contain protection information, including a 16 bit CRC. This integrity metadata enables corrupted write a...