Anna Herman and the Goldberg Variations

Herman Neuckermans

Herman Beerman.

Alfred Goldberg

system, where non-sexualised images, e.g. from clothes ads or even from nudist beaches get the green light, erotic posing counts as amber, and material focusing on genitals or actual acts of child abuse gets the red light. “We train the patient to move only in the green area,” Ahlers told the paper. “Amber means: Caution! Potential danger for children and for myself! Risky behaviour on the verg...

4 Herman

Introduction In one important respect confronting the experts on a subject like terrorism is more difficult than on issues like fluoridation or nuclear power. On the latter topics, the public’s health and safety are clearly and directly at stake, its interest in rational inquiry is evident, and antior non-establishment experts or spokespersons, while at a serious disadvantage in reaching the pu...

Proving the Herman-Protocol Conjecture

Herman’s self-stabilization algorithm, introduced 25 years ago, is a well-studied synchronous randomized protocol for enabling a ring of N processes collectively holding any odd number of tokens to reach a stable state in which a single token remains. Determining the worst-case expected time to stabilization is the central outstanding open problem about this protocol. It is known that there is ...