But despite their differences each man deeply valued the other. Darwin persuaded the British government to award Wallace a pension for services to science. Wallace dedicated his book The Malay Archipelago to Darwin, “as a token of personal esteem and friendship but also to express my deep admiration for his genius and his works.” Wallace also called his 1889 collection of evolutionary essays Da...

We present Linkage Query Writer (LinQuer), a system for generating SQL queries for semantic link discovery over relational data. The LinQuer framework consists of (a) LinQL, a language for specification of linkage requirements; (b) a web interface and an API for translating LinQL queries to standard SQL queries; (c) an interface that assists users in writing LinQL queries. We discuss the challe...

In this paper we consider single writer multiple reader concurrency—any number of transactions can atomically access shared data structures, but only one thread can atomically update the data. Limiting ourselves to a single writer allows us to achieve strong properties, some of which are not achievable with multiple writers. In particular, we guarantee strict serializability, no aborts, wait-fr...

The subject of this research is the history relations between Prishvin and Kalinin – a prominent revolutionary party leader Soviet era, who was head state for many years after October Revolution. author observes that biographical material about communication contained in works writer memoirs their contemporaries sufficiently studied, while his diary notes significantly change represen...

In the last several years, we developed new and very effective techniques for automatic writer identification that use probability distribution functions extracted the handwriting images to characterize writer individuality. The demonstration will present a html-based visualization tool that we recently built in order to be able to directly see and assess the results generated by our writer ide...