Ask Early and Ask Often

To ask or not to ask, that is the question

Appropriate Questions:  What are you looking for in a summer intern? (then be prepared to demonstrate how you fit those desired skills)  What has been your most interesting case/project in the past year?  What drew you to this employer/what was your path to this organization/firm?  I spoke with ______, the Michigan student who worked here two summers ago, and s/he said (fill in positive asp...

ASK: Active Spam Killer

We present Active Spam Killer (ASK), a program that attempts to validate unknown senders before allowing delivery of their message. Validation occurs by means of a challenge reply sent to senders who are not yet known to the system. Messages are kept in a queue pending confirmation until the sender replies to the challenge. Further messages coming from confirmed senders are delivered immediatel...

Ask the Children

Compiling Ask Constraints

In this paper we investigate how to extend a generic constraint solver that provides not only tell constraints (by adding the constraint to the store) but also ask tests (by checking whether the constraint is entailed by the store), with general ask constraints. Ask constraints are important for implementing constraint implication, extensible solvers using dynamic scheduling and reification. Wh...

Questions Children Ask

Mrs. Chaloner approves the modern manner of answering difficult questions simply and honestly, but warns against perplexing children by giving them more facts than they want, or can use at a particular stage of understanding. Throughout the book she gives examples of the differences in interest and meaning which the same question may have to the two, three, four, and five year old child. The na...