In the autumn of 1978, Neil Jones and Steve Muchnick, working at the University of Kansas, were studying compiler synthesis from Scott-Strachey denotational-semantics definitions; I was Neil’s student. Neil read intently John Reynolds’s 1972 paper, Definitional Interpreters for Higher-Order Programming Languages [14], and applied Reynolds’s continuation-passing and defunctionalization transform...

“Scientific truth”, Marx wrote in a famous statement, “is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things” (Marx, 1899, 54). The idea of the production of nature is indeed paradoxical, to the point of sounding absurd, if judged by the superficial appearance of nature even in capitalist society. Nature is generally seen as precisely that whi...

From the rust-brown sediments of long-dried streams that once rumbled through the rugged terrain of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, a team of paleontologists unearthed in 2004 fossils of a 375 million-year-old species of fish that may have nearly crossed an evolutionary Rubicon. Named Tiktaalik roseae, the nowextinct animal has come to represent an intermediate link between fish and amphibians, its ...

p0330 The constantly irritable infant is often referred to by primary health care providers in a somewhat offhanded way as being colicky, as if that somehow represents the final word on the subject. ‘Infantile colic’ is a term which is used by various health care professions to describe the persistent, often violent crying which sometimes characterizes an otherwise healthy and thriving baby. As...

Kevin Kiernan ([email protected]) University of Kentucky, English Dorothy Porter ([email protected]) University of Kentucky, Research in Computing for Humanities Alex Dekhtyar ([email protected]) University of Kentucky, Computer Science Ionut Emil Iacob ([email protected]) University of Kentucky, Computer Science Jerzy W. Jaromczyk ([email protected]) University of Kentucky, Computer Science Neil M...

We propose a simple model in which an agent observes not only the choices made by others, but also some information about the process that led them to those choices. We consider two cases: In the first, an agent observes whether another agent has compared the alternatives before making his choice. In the second, an agent observes the time invested in deliberation before the other agent makes hi...