Van Zandt Williams

Timothy Van Zandt Hidden Information Acquisition and Static Choice

This note explores the consequence of hidden information acquisition for static choice theory. We show that any choice function in the observable problem can be Consistent with some well-behaved choice function in a metaproblem with unobservable cosily information acquisition. This illustrates how choices may not satisfy consistency conditions because a decision maker's decision process (in thi...

Williams, T

This paper describes a study of a large design and manufacture engineering project, undertaken as part of a Delay and Disruption litigation. Design changes and delays in design approval would have caused delay to the project; in order to fulfil a tight time-constraint, management had to increase parallel development in the network logic, reducing delay but setting up feed-back loops that marked...

Mariam Williams

Williams syndrome.

Williams syndrome

Williams syndrome...people with intact language, intact face processing and very low IQ, right? Wrong! That’s the propagated myth because, if it were true, it would be such an elegant example of innate modularity at the genetic, brain and cognitive levels. But numerous labs across the world have shown that although vocabulary levels can be surprisingly high in Williams syndrome children, they a...