Remembering Thaddeus (Ted) Massalski

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...

Turbine Engine Diagnostics (TED)

expert system to aid the M1 Abrams tank mechanic find-and-fix problems in the AGT-1500 turbine engine. TED was designed to provide the apprentice mechanic with the ability to diagnose and repair the turbine engine like an expert mechanic. The expert system was designed and built by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School. This article discusses the relevan...

Farmer Ted Goes Natural

We’ve all been given a problem in a calculus class remarkably similar to the following one: Farmer Ted is building a chicken coop. He decides he can spare 190 square feet of his land for the coop, which will be built in the shape of a rectangle. Being a practical man, Farmer Ted wants to spend as little as possible on the chicken wire for the fence. What dimensions should he make the chicken co...

A Prote ted Division

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Riemannian manifolds with positive sectional curvature have been a frequent topic of global Riemannian geometry for over 40 years. Nevertheless, there are relatively few known examples of such manifolds. The purpose of this article is to study the topological properties of some of these examples, the so-called Eschenburg spaces, in detail. In addition to positively curved metrics, some Eschenbu...