A number of applications on parallel computers deal with very large data sets that cannot t in main memory In such applications data must be stored in les on disks and fetched into memory during program execution Parallel programs with large out of core arrays stored in les must read write smaller sections of the arrays from to les In this paper we describe a method for accessing sections of ou...

For over half a century, the ‘imagining’ of Great War in UK has been framed by existence two Western Fronts, one literary and other historical. The authors illustrators children’s picture books, whose work traditionally reflected society’s values pre-occupations, have remained remarkably faithful to construct war as futile meaningless conflict that destroyed generation. This article analyses fo...

Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas (1871) has become a touchstone of democratic theory. Commentators unusual ideological range uphold the book as politically exemplary. This article demonstrates that recent theoretical celebrations are sanitized and incomplete. I expose antidemocratic side by analyzing (1) its philosophy death (2) politics race. Whitman framed his immortalist response to within a...

The nature of iterative learning on a randomized initial architecture, such as backpropagation training of a multilayer perceptron, is such that precise replication of a reported result is virtually impossible. The outcome is that experimental replication of reported results, a touchstone of “the scientific method,” is not an option for researchers in this most popular subfield of neural comput...

This paper describes the design and execution of a roboticsthemed AI elective at a small liberal arts institution. An important goal of the course is to spark and nurture students’ interest in pursuing related research while still undergraduates. To this end the curriculum turns the usual structure of a survey course on its head, pushing many fundamental topics later in the term so that student...

Over the last thirty years, the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity has proven both a touchstone and a stumbling block for theories of grammatical representation. Unfortunately, an abundance of scrutiny does not always guarantee an increase in insight. Two major pitfalls are worth mentioning. On the one hand, as the theorist strives for intimations of universality, the complexity and subtle vari...

A construct ive learning algori thm dynamical ly creates a problem-specific neural ne twork architecture rather t h a n learning o n a pre-specified architecture. W e propose a parallel vers ion of our recently presented construct ive neural ne twork learning algori thm. Parallelization provides a computat ional speedup by a fact o r of O ( t ) where t is t h e number of training ezamples. Dist...

-The first part of this paper examines some of the difficulties for the historian of information science that arise from the lack of agreement as to what precisely constitutes information science and from its commonly accepted interdisciplinary nature. It examines in this connection Machlup and Mansfield's ideas about a "narrow" information science and information science as a composite of disc...

In this paper we consider possible “future everyday hypertext systems.” To ground our discussion, we look first at the functional and conceptual definitions of hypertext that have evolved in the hypertext research community. We then consider these definitions against the Web, the best known current everyday hypertext, but one that the hypertext community has regarded as only partially a hyperte...

It was in 1911 that Łukasiewicz and Leśniewski met. Leśniewski himself reported that at that time he had read Łukasiewicz’s masterpiece On the Principle of Contradiction in Aristotle (1910), and, as Lejewski knew from Łukasiewicz, he said he had come to criticize the author. In the same year Leśniewski wrote “An Attempt at a Proof of the Principle of Contradiction”, which was published in 1912 ...