Molecular Storage, Data Writ Small

Quantum mechanics writ large

S ome two centuries before the quantum revolution, Newton (1) suggested that corpuscles of light generate waves in an aethereal medium like skipping stones generate waves in water, with their motion then being affected by these aether waves. Times have changed. Light corpuscles are now known as photons, and the majority of physicists have dispensed with the notion of aether. Nevertheless, certa...

In Cypher Writ

Digital Scholarship is a method of scholarly communication, research, and exchange of ideas that employs modern forms of technology, in particular, those forms of technology maintained within an institution’s cyberinfrastructure. Digital scholarship then is often, in equal parts, the intellectual content and the manner in which it is created and presented. That is what sets it apart from, for e...

Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Evolution writ large

New York is presently home to a major exhibition celebrating Darwin and evolution that shines above the scepticism pervading the country's fundamental Christians who prefer to believe more biblical accounts of the emergence of organisms. It is just to counter such beliefs that the American Museum of Natural History has sought to stage the most in-depth ever Darwin exhibition in collaboration Th...

Why data mining is more than statistics writ large

Data mining is the discovery of interesting, unexpected, or valuable structures in large data sets. Clearly this is an activity which overlaps substantially with statistics and exploratory data analysis. It is also an activity which overlaps with other disciplines, notably database theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. Each of these disciplines brings their...