The Boosters in Boosterism: Some Calgary Examples

Protocol boosters

This paper describes a new methodology for protocol design, using incremental construction of the protocol from elements called “protocol boosters” on an as-needed basis. Protocol boosters allow: (1) dynamic protocol customization to heterogeneous environments, and (2) rapid protocol evolution. Unlike alternative adaptation approaches, such as link layer, conversion, and termination protocols, ...

Some Examples in the Realization of Symmetry

I don't think I have much to teach this audience about string theory as such. What I will do, that I hope is useful, is discuss a few phenomena that have come up in my recent work which are in some way connected to fundamental issues regarding the realization of symmetry in quantum mechanics. My strong impression is that the fundamental symmetry of string theory, or whatever string theory is ev...

Some Examples in Toric Geometry

We present two examples in toric geometry concerning the relationship between smooth toric varieties and quasitoric manifolds (or more generally unitary torus manifolds), and extend the results of [8] to prove the non-existence of almost complex quasitorics over the duals of some certain cyclic 4-polytopes. We also provide the sufficient conditions on the base polytope and the characteristic ma...

Representations : Some Examples

Some Effective Oop Examples

This paper will present two examples that we feel can convince students of the benefits of object-oriented design and spur their interest. Both examples are well-known and fun to program. We first describe a sorting animation. In this project we will ask students to implement animation of various sorting algorithms, and for each sorting algorithm the user can choose one of two methods of animat...