The Planet-4D model introduced by Baroin 2011b is a richer model of pitch-class relationships than the standard cyclic model of the clock-face diagram: instead of the distribution of twelve points on a circle in a 2D plane, the Planet-4D model places the twelve pcs on a 4D hypersphere. Beyond the usual T/I group of symmetries, which is still featured in this new musical space, the additional di...

First let me say that it is extremely gratifying to stand here as the 28th recipient of the Nathan B. Eddy Award and also as chief of the research group established by Dr. Eddy more than 60 years ago at NIH. At the same time, I am almost overwhelmed with humility and gratitude to those who helped me achieve our goals during the last 27 years. This is without a doubt the high point of my career ...

‘‘Daddy, tell me a story. A good one.’’ An engineer pauses at the request. We know how to measure and build many things. But imagining, crafting, and telling a story? That is hard. If you are building or researching any aspect of multimedia, however, then you should be thinking about how your work helps both you and the user experience a story. Telling stories is an important part of how we com...

Abstract Guessing is a familiar activity, one we engage in when are uncertain of the answer to question under discussion. It also an activity that lends itself normative evaluation: some guesses better than others. The interests me here what makes for good guess. In recent work, Dorst and Mandelkern have argued distinguished from bad ones by how well they optimize tradeoff between accuracy spec...

We report on various results, conjectures, and open problems related to KazhdanLusztig polynomials of matroids. We focus on conjectures about the roots of these polynomials, all of which appear here for the first time.

There is a typographical error in a sentence following (20) in [1, p.1681], in which an extra parenthesis appears. The corrected sentence is as follows. Therefore, p(v) is a Gibbs distribution p(v) = 1=Vintexp E . Also, the authors’ photographs and biographies did not appear in [1], and they now appear below. In addition, some of the information in references [9], [24], and [28] has changed. Th...

We derive twistorial tensionful bosonic string action by considering on the world sheet the canonical twistorial 2–form in two–twistor space. We demonstrate the equivalence of or model to two known momentum formulations of D = 4 bosonic string, with covariant worldsheet vectorial string momenta P m μ (τ, σ) and the one with tensorial string momenta P[μν](τ, σ). All considered here string action...