We discuss some of the choices that arise when one tries to make the idea of physical determinism more precise. Broadly speaking, ‘ontological’ notions of determinism are parameterized by one’s choice of mathematical ideology, whilst ‘epistemological’ notions of determinism are parameterized by the choice of an appropriate notion of computability. We present some simple examples to show that th...

subject. To quote Johnstone's text-book, " broadly speaking, the operation is indicated by any condition of the mother or the foetus which renders the continuation of pregnancy . . . dangerous to one or other or both." This holds good, but the interpretation varies. Williams, for example, gives it as his opinion that women with contracted pelvis should be allowed to go on to labour without inte...

In machine lip-reading, which is identification of speech from visual-only information, there is evidence to show that visual speech is highly dependent upon the speaker [1]. Here, we use a phoneme-clustering method to form new phoneme-to-viseme maps for both individual and multiple speakers. We use these maps to examine how similarly speakers talk visually. We conclude that broadly speaking, s...

The central theme of our programs has been to advance the understanding of optical and quantum communication, radar, and sensing systems. Broadly speaking, this has entailed: (1) developing system-analytic models for important propagation, detection, and communication scenarios; (2) using these models to derive the fundamental limits on system performance; and (3) identifying, and establishing ...

The central theme of our programs has been to advance the understanding of optical and quasioptical communication, radar, and sensing systems. Broadly speaking, this has entailed: (1) developing system-analytic models for important optical propagation, detection, and communication scenarios; (2) using these models to derive the fundamental limits on system performance; and (3) identifying and e...

The central theme of our programs has been to advance the understanding of optical and quantum communication, radar, and sensing systems. Broadly speaking, this has entailed: (1) developing system-analytic models for important propagation, detection, and communication scenarios; (2) using these models to derive the fundamental limits on system performance; and (3) identifying, and establishing ...

The central theme of our programs has been to advance the understanding of optical and quasi-optical communication, radar, and sensing systems. Broadly speaking, this has entailed: 1) developing system-analytic models for important optical propagation, detection, and communication scenarios; 2) using these models to derive the fundamental limits on system performance; and 3) identifying and est...

The goal of software architectures, broadly speaking, is to identify techniques, solutions, tools, and tradeoffs that will make Plug-and-Play software a reality. Software reuse, or the reuse of components, is vital to architectures. Software system generators overlaps both areas. The distinguishing feature of generators is that its components are designed to be plug-compatible, interchangeable,...