Analogue Transactions with Adelbert Ames

The Life and Unusual Ideas of Adelbert Ames, Jr

This paper is a summary of the life and major achievements of Adelbert Ames, Jr., an American ophthalmologist and perceptual psychologist, who had initially wanted to be a visual artist. He is most widely remembered today as the inventor of the Ames Demonstrations in Perception, the most famous of which consists of a distorted room in which people seem to shrink as they walk from one corner to ...

Experience with Parallel Computers at NASA Ames

Beginning in 1988, the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) organization at NASA Ames Research Center has studied the usability of highly parallel computers on computational uid dynamics and other aerophysics applications. Presently this organization operates a CM-2 with 32,768 nodes and an Intel iPSC/860 with 128 nodes. This note gives an overview of the experience in using these systems, hi...

Ames, the Ames test, and the causes of cancer.

Field Experiments with the Ames Marsokhod Rover

In an ongoing series of field experiments, the Ames Marsokhod rover is deployed to remote locations and operated by scientists in simulated planetary explorations. These experiments provide insight both for scientists preparing for real planetary surface exploration and for robotics researchers. In this paper we will provide an overview of our work with the Marsokhod, describe the various subsy...

Representing Databases in ames

Three methods for representing data in a relational storage system with an in-core frame-based system are experimented with and reported upon. Tradeoffs among these three representational methods are sizes of databases, times for loading data, and performance of queries. Essentially, these methods differ in ways of capturing relationships among frames. The three different ways of capturing such...