Proust is a small Racket program offering rudimentary interactive assistance in the development of verified proofs for propositional and predicate logic. It is constructed in stages, some of which are done by students before using it to complete proof exercises, and in parallel with the study of its theoretical underpinnings, including elements of Martin-Löf type theory. The goal is twofold: to...

Les œuvres de Proust et Dostoïevski, au-delà des différences qui les marquent, en particulier sur le monde, avec ou sans Dieu, la différence statut narrateurs l’intériorité, partagent un trait essentiel: personnages, situations, intrigues nouent n’y sont jamais présentés selon principe causalité permettraient l’explication psychologique, mais dans l’ordre leurs perceptions diffractées par récit...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...

As a graduate student, I learned to question assumptions. Michael Barbour taught us to challenge the assumption that we could ever really know the "native" condition of California. Marcel Rejmánek taught me to ask, "Is your invasives problem truly growing over time, or does it just look that way because you are doing a better job of measuring it?" These questions underlie my develop­ ment of mo...