The best known event in the history of machine translation is without doubt the publication thirty years ago in November 1966 of the report by the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee (ALPAC 1966). Its e¤ect was to bring to an end the substantial funding of MT research in the United States for some twenty years. More significantly, perhaps, was the clear message to the general publi...

‎‎we investigate graham higman's paper emph{enumerating }$p$emph{-groups}‎, ‎ii‎, ‎in which he formulated his famous porc conjecture‎. ‎we are able to simplify some of the theory‎. ‎in particular‎, ‎higman's paper contains five pages of homological algebra which he uses in‎ ‎his proof that the number of solutions in a finite field to a finite set of‎ ‎emph{monomial} equations is porc‎. ‎it turn...

this paper is a slightly revised version of an introduction into singularity theory corresponding to a series of lectures given at the ``advanced school and conference on homological and geometrical methods in representation theory'' at the international centre for theoretical physics (ictp), miramare - trieste, italy, 11-29 january 2010. we show how to associate to a triple of positive integer...