PROUST is a system which identifies the non-syntactic bugs in novices’ programs and provides novices with help as to the misconceptions under which they were laboring that caused the bugs. In this paper we will discuss the methods which PROUST uses to identify and diagnose non-syntactic bugs. Key in this enterprise is PROUST's ability to cope with the significant variability exhibited by novice...

This paper describes a major restructuring of PROuST, a method for protein structure comparison, for an efficient porting to the Grid. PROuST consists of different components: an index-based search that produces a list of proteins that are good candidates for similarity, and a dynamic programming algorithm that aligns the target protein with each candidate protein. Both components use the same ...

In his novel Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust argues that conventional descriptions of the phenomenology of consciousness are incomplete because they focus too much on the highly-salient sensory information that dominates each moment of awareness and ignore the network of associations that lies in the background. In this paper, I explicate Proust s theory of conscious experience and sh...

Este texto é baseado na interlocução estabelecida no contexto do XI Encontro GT de Estética da ANPOF com o apresentado por Marcela Oliveira mesmo evento, intitulado “Escrever a palavra fim: cem anos morte Proust”. Aqui se propõe, Anne Carson e Walter Benjamin, que operação Proust “isolar uma fatia tempo” realizada pela ação desejante, capaz reverter as setas tempo.

The ProgramCritic is a system designed to analyze and critique students' computer programs. After analyzing a program, the ProgramCritic provides the student with a list of English-language comments detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the student's program. The foundation of the ProgramCritic's analytic abilities is a set of "knowledge bases" which describe a range of programming problems...

Marcel Proust was the son and brother of eminent Parisian physicians. He was fascinated by medicine and psychology, which he pursued both for his own interest and as material for his writing. Undoubtedly Proust had a number of "organic" diseases, but many of them, such as asthma, were considered by the physicians of his day to be purely manifestations of emotional disturbances. Others, such as ...

In the opening section of their paper entitled ‘Odour-evoked autobiographical memories: psychological investigation of Proustian phenomena’ (Chu and Downes, 2000a) the authors refer to ‘a literary anecdote from Proust’ as an example of ‘folk wisdom concerning the power of odours to vividly remind one of particular past experiences’. Providing a one-paragraph excerpt from Proust’s three-page acc...