Humor is one of the characteristics Sundanese people in West Java. This not only seen their conversations about everyday matters but also serious and sacred issues. They sometimes faced these issues by remaining relaxed laughing. This, for instance, can be figure Haji Hasan Mustapa, a Great Penghulu Kutaraja Bandung during Dutch colonial period. study focuses on 209 anecdotes Mustapa that his s...

Penn’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) is the world’s first academic structure devoted to translational science. With programmatic, infrastructural, and educational components, it has more than 2,000 members drawn from all the schools of Penn, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Wistar and Monell Institutes, and the University of the Sciences. The c...

The DARPA Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) was a 12-foot tall, eight-wheeled robot with multiple sensors, tasked to go from point A to point B without human intervention in the hills outside of Denver in about 1985. This was a large applied research effort that presented many opportunities for unusual experiences. In one such experience, I was called in, at the last minute, to help improve our ALV...

The data describing resolutions to telephone network local loop \troubles," from which we wish to learn rules for dispatching technicians , are notoriously unreliable. Anecdotes abound detailing reasons why a resolution entered by a technician would not be valid, ranging from sympathy to fear to ignorance to negligence to management pressure. In this paper, we describe four different approaches...