This paper exploits parallel computing power of graphics cards to accelerate state space search. We illustrate that modern graphics processing units (GPUs) have the potential to speed up breadth-first search significantly. For a bitvector representation of the search frontier, GPU algorithms with one and two bits per state are presented. Efficient perfect hash functions and their inverse are ex...

T he announcement that the federally funded Human Genome Project had succeeded— ahead of schedule—in mapping the nucleotide sequences of all 23 pairs of chromosomes belonging to five human persons convinces me that we have arrived at the threshold of the Enlightenment project's final frontier. At the core of this modern project, a project not totally unrelated in its genesis to Christian values...

This paper examines a key concept of democratic experimentalism, asking what is a “democratic experiment”? Starting with Donald Campbell’s argument in favor of an experimenting society, the paper critically examines whether randomized controlled experiments should be the gold standard for democratic experimentalism. This tradition of experimentalism, it is argued, values the verification of kno...

Love and its transformative power have long been at the center of Islamic Sufism. For Sufi writers profane love, perceived as the love of worldly beloved, was the first step on the path toward the union with the divine. Farid al-Din ‘Attar (1145-1221) was one of the most significant authors to espouse and articulate profane love as a representation of both earthly and heavenly love. 'Attar’s us...

the present article aims to explicate the difference between perceptions of conceptual relations governing the public in different eras. therefore, this can be achieved through considering ancient greece as the birthplace of western traditions and deciphering the mythological meaning of governance in that era. to this end, it takes advantage of a hermeneutical-historical point of view to review...