(Un) scaling computing

Designing for (un)serendipity: computing and chance

The tale of a lame, one-eyed, toothless camel 1 may not, at first glance, seem an auspicious start for ground-breaking discoveries of penicillin, X-rays and chocolate chip cookies. However, when Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in 1754, based on the tale of ‘The Three Princes of Serendip’ and the aforementioned camel, he was giving name to the accidental sagacity (i.e. accidental wisd...

Un petit cercle, un grand exemple (دایره‌ای کوچک، سرمشقی بزرگ )

نام هانری کربن با دو دایره گره خورده است: دایرة ارانوس و دایرة تهران؛ دایره‌هایی که مطابق منظر کربن، می‌توان آنها را به‌درستی رمزی و مثالی خواند. این مقاله به دایرة تهران اختصاص دارد، دایره‌ای تحقیقی که با حضور اندیشمندانی چند، و با محوریت دو شخصیت از شرق و غرب، علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبایی و هانری کربن، شکل می‌گرفت. برغم همه مشکلات فنی و فیزیکی ارتباط کلامی، این دو مرد، به خوبی با یکدیگر «مقاب...

Scaling Mobile Enterprise Through Cloud Computing

Web services (WS) are going mobile. A Mobile Enterprise can be established in a cellular network by participating Mobile Hosts, which act as WS providers, and their clients. Mobile Hosts enable seamless integration of userspecific services to the enterprise, by following WS standards, also on the radio. The paper summarizes the challenges and research associated with establishing Mobile Enterpr...

Rebooting Computing: New Strategies for Technology Scaling

Computing Derivatives of Scaling Functions and Wavelets

This paper provides a general approach to the computation, for sufficiently regular multiresolution analyses, of scaling functions and wavelets and their derivatives. Two distinct iterative schemes are used to determine the multiresolution functions, the so-called ‘cascade’ algorithm and an eigenvector-based method. We present a novel development of these procedures which not only encompasses b...