In more than 1,500 years since the inception of chess as a fascination of nobility, scholars, and gamers alike, theoreticians have proposed innumerable underlying strategies intended to exert control over the chaos of threats and offences, and to eliminate opponents in short order. Suggested strategies are not uniform, and depend not just on the gambits offered, but the stage of the game being ...

Olympiodorus’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedo I.3–6 has been the linchpin of the reconstructions of the supposed Orphic doctrine of original sin. While Olympiodorus links the Titans’ dismemberment of Dionysus and anthropogony, he does not include any element of inherited guilt, either in his narration of the myth or in his interpretation. Moreover, his telling of the myth, which makes the anthropo...

The design of computational systems to support foreign language instruction needs to be grounded on what we know about human learning, language processing, and humancomputer interaction. Principles derived from these fields can be tested and quantified in the context of specific tutoring systems. Evaluation of the pedagogical impact of particular principles can best be achieved by comparing two...