January 2003 Book Reviews

SIL Electronic Book Reviews 2003 - 026 Morphological productivity

Morphological productivity is one of the most contested areas in the study of word formation. In this research volume Bauer reviews the significant contributions of scholars to the subject over the past 20–30 years. (As a caveat, amongst the 300 or so references to those who have made a contribution only one was to an SIL scholar, and that was Pike 1967). His chapters range over all the key are...

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Internet - Draft EAP January 2003

This document defines the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), an authentication framework which supports multiple authentication mechanisms. EAP typically runs directly over the link layer without requiring IP, but is reliant on lower layer ordering guarantees as in PPP and IEEE 802. EAP does provide its own support for duplicate elimination and retransmission. Fragmentation is not suppor...

Book Reviews Alan Law

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...

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