Savoring and Dampening with Passion: How Passionate People Respond when Good Things Happen

When VAD Things Happen to Good People.

When bad things happen to good trees

When the edges in a tree or rooted tree fail with a certain fixed probability, the (greedoid) rank may drop. We compute the expected rank as a polynomial in p and as a real number under the assumption of uniform distribution. We obtain several different expressions for this expected rank polynomial for both trees and rooted trees, one of which is especially simple in each case. We also prove tw...

When Bad Things Happen to Good Campuses

G ene Washington, director of acdemic computing, is buzzed by his secretary to take an urgent call from Provost Marion Mossback. “Washington,” yells Mossback, “what kind of trouble have you got Ypsilanti University into now?” After a few minutes of gentle probing, Washington has the outline of the “trouble.” Mossback has just received a letter from a prominent alumnus and benefactor, Mr. Martin...

Panel: When Bad Things Happen To Good Chips

Design of reliable chips with high yield is an extremely challenging task in UDSM technologies. Time to market pressures, which often limit the necessary verification before tapeout, typically are manifested as ramp-to-production problems on "good" designs either in the manufacturing process or in the field. Burn-in process, a reactive measure to ship reliable chips, is not effective for high v...

When good people do bad things.

Now, Petraeus and Paula Broadwell are tabloid fodder, the details of their relationship spilled across headlines and blogs around the world. The nomination of another four-star general, John Allen, as NATO commander has been placed on hold pending investigation into possibly inappropriate emails to Tampa social maven Jill Kelley, whose closeness to Petraeus provoked Broadwell into sending her a...