Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Utopian Projects

Ilya Raykhel

While machine learning is one of the most popular research areas in Computer Science right now, there are still only a few applications meant to be used by general public. This paper presents an exemplary application that may be directly applied to eBay trading. This paper starts with a short survey of machine learning in general and techniques that may be used to benefit the development of sai...

Obituaries: Ilya Prigogine

he divided his time between Brussels and Austin. Ilya Prigogine was the second son of Roman Prigogine, a factory owner and chemical engineer, and Julia Wichman Prigogine, who had been a student at the Conservatory of Music in Moscow. Ilya studied chemistry at ULB, although on entering the university was interested more in history, archaeology, and music, especially piano. According to his mothe...

The utopian Darcy Ribeiro archive.

The project in memory of anthropologist, writer and politician Darcy Ribeiro is analyzed, with emphasis on the relationship he had with his personal archives and the creation of the Darcy Ribeiro Foundation, established to give continuity to his 'legacy.' It highlights the influences present in the formation of his archive and presents an ethnography that seeks to restore the historicity of the...

Mythos, Memory, and Utopian Visions

Vassiliev invariants and the cubical knot complex Ilya Kofman

We construct a cubical CW-complex CK(M3) whose rational cohomology algebra contains Vassiliev invariants of knots in the 3-manifold M3. We construct CK(R3) by attaching cells to CK(R3) for every degenerate 1-singular and 2-singular knot, and we show that π1(CK(R 3)) = 1 and π2(CK(R 3)) = Z. We give conditions for Vassiliev invariants to be nontrivial in cohomology. In particular, for R3 we show...