In 1967 I taught at Cornell, was involved in the development of Curriculum 68, and was working on my book, Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization, which aimed to develop a unifying model for programming languages. When Don Knuth visited me one weekend in Ithaca, we both went to the synagogue on Saturday and to Church on Sunday and had intense discussions about t...

Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, in his Saturnalia, draws upon the Platonic archetype making overt allusions to Symposium and yet follows Athenaeus, whose work he seems know thoroughly, albeit does not acknowledge its influence openly. Besides Greek paradigms, used Roman models, i. e., Cicero’s dialogues, infuse literary banquet with flavour. The author of Saturnalia was severely criticised, esp...

jarun namah is an illustrated epopee that belonged to the second half of safavid period and isfahan painting style. it reserved in great britain museum. poetry of the book attributed to qadri shirazi. the story is about a battle between iran and portuguese army in the time of shah abbas i, also describes the battle scenes and courage of safavid commanders army. manuscript contains 10 miniatures...

WHEN CALLED UPON TO HOST a banquet celebrating the forthcoming Great Exhibition of 1851, the world’s first display of international industry, the Mayor of York turned to the period’s most renowned chef for the catering. The Frenchman Alexis Soyer, who had recently resigned from his position at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, had made a name for himself in Britain through a combination of extravag...

This poster shows an artificial neural network capable of learning a temporal sequence. Directly inspired from a hippocampus model [Banquet et al, 1998], this architecture allows an autonomous robot to learn how to imitate a sequence of movements wi th the correct t iming.

Tuesday, May 7, 1991. I sign the last grade sheet and smile at the spring sun. Finally the semester is over. A message from Teo Rus arrives. \The second conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology needs a banquet speaker", writes Teo. I am very attered. And scared. I recall a recent banquet talk in Ann Arbor. The man went on and on. I left before he nished. On the other hand, th...