Recent studies have reported that in normal healthy individuals, the perception of illusory sensations in one modality can be induced by the presentation of a stimulus in another modality. These illusory sensations may arise from the activation of a tactile representation in memory induced by the non-target stimulus, in a process mirroring that thought to be responsible for many forms of medica...

Currently, much of the software that we would like to run fast on multi-core processors is written in C — a language in which expressing concurrency is difficult and error prone. Unfortunately, moving such programs to a new language is very difficult, since the programmers only know C, the tools only know C, and developers are unkeen to trust their projects to a language that might not be suppo...