This article examines recent developments in cognitivist theories of the emotions, and seeks to develop an original theory within that approach. The article specifically considers the criticism that such theories over-intellectualise emotions by reducing them to attitudes towards propositions and by excluding feelings. I argue that few cognitivists have ever held the former position, and that i...

Prior research indicates that there is much spatial variation in applications' memory access patterns. Modern memory systems, however, use small fixed-size cache blocks and as such cannot exploit the variation. Increasing the block size would not only prohibitively increase pin and interconnect bandwidth demands, but also increase the likelihood of false sharing in shared-memory multiprocessors...

During the course of this UROP, I allowed the flock of birds to communicate with programs and services using PVM, and wrote a rudimentary program to capture data from the flock of birds and the mental model positioning system to allow for comparisons. Doing this involved multiple steps. First, getting the flock to work. Currently there are three birds. They are configured according to the Flock...