The thesis focuses on counterexample explanation in model checking, which aims to provide useful information about the cause of an error so that the system designer can find and fix the error faster. We summarize some of the existing methods to deal with this problem and implement the method of Alex Groce and Willem Visser. This method describes three ways of comparing failing and unfailing run...

A n interesting question for any of us is why we chose our current profession. As a reader of this magazine, there’s a good chance you’re working in the field of pervasive or mobile computing, and the inspiration for your choice is perhaps something we have in common: a fascination with gadgets, a tendency to shop for electronic odds and ends, and an interest in turning fictional devices into r...

doi: 10.1188/16.ONF.131-132 The end of each year and the beginning of the next usually involves the media printing lists of what was talked about in the past year and what is going to be “hot” in the coming 12 months. The world of oncology is no different. MedPageToday conducted a nonscientific survey of readers (Sergel, 2015), asking oncologists what game changers they saw in 2015. Seventy-fou...

Cover illustration: A farmer from Devon, England, 1942, with the divine power of finding water using only his hands and a hazel twig.

Sheridan, in his “Toward an Eclectic Ontology of Presence” (Sheridan, 1999), approaches the semblance of an ontological argument with discussion of “divine presence” in relation to virtual reality communications media and the consequent effect of virtuality upon the mind/matter ensemble. Although he doesn’t offer proof for God, Sheridan (and subsequently Mantovani and Riva, who accept Sheridan’...

This essay explains and analyzes Robert John Russell’s theory of divine action. Russell’s proposal has exercised significant influence on others working in the area of science and religion with interests in Christian systematic theology. It would be valuable to trace the lines of that influence, but I do not have space to do that here. I can testify to his influence in more personal terms, howe...

In his recent version of the logical problem evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence. Such principles, however, only apply he a agent. I first argue against this by appealing work Mark Murphy before, secondly, suggesting an alternative way frame Sterba’s argument in terms divine love. One can dis...