ions. As such, it addressed many problems and issues facing the discipline. While I believe Hibbard’s list to be an important beginning—and while I also note that some of the items in Sutherland’s original 1966 list are still unsolved and reappear on my list—I also believe it is important to refresh these lists regularly and to add new viewpoints with regard to visualization research problems a...

In the late twelfth century, northern European Jewish mystics engaged in a sustained, unprecedented effort to explore the theological meaning of werewolves. This article seeks to anchor this surprising preoccupation in contemporary European religious culture, arguing that medieval Jews and Christians found werewolves "good to think with" in exploring the spiritual status of the (mutable, unstab...

This paper presents and tests a method for improving the predictive power of derived viewpoints in multiple viewpoints systems. Multiple viewpoint systems are a well established method for the statistical modelling of sequential symbolic musical data. A useful class of viewpoints known as derived viewpoints map symbols from a basic event space to a viewpoint-specific domain. Probability estimat...

The field of mystical and meditative research lacks a basic typology delineating the varied genres characteristics experience practices that may be correlated to those. Such state hinders comparative study mysticism meditation through different philosophical, religious spiritual traditions, or along chronological development in single tradition. In this article, I introduce phenomenological typ...