Book Review: Quantitative Ethnography by David Williamson Shaffer

Book Review: “Classifying Reality,” by David S. Oderberg (ed.) (2013)

Classifying reality is an ancient and fundamental ability. Even the most basic living creatures classify their world as do social collectives of living things, most noticeably, human beings through psychological processes. An example of the rudimentary nature of classification exists in the behavior of slime molds. When food is abundant many of the more than 900 types of slime molds exist not a...

DAVID WILLIAMSON SHAFFER and JAMES J. KAPUT MATHEMATICS AND VIRTUAL CULTURE: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON TECHNOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

This paper suggests that from a cognitive-evolutionary perspective, computational media are qualitatively different from many of the technologies that have promised educational change in the past and failed to deliver. Recent theories of human cognitive evolution suggest that human cognition has evolved through four distinct stages: episodic, mimetic, mythic, and theoretical. This progression w...

Book Review David Banister Transport Planning

Lecturer : David P . Williamson Scribe : Faisal Alkaabneh

Today we will look at a matrix analog of the standard scalar Chernoff bounds. This matrix analog will be used in the next lecture when we talk about graph sparsification. While we’re more interested in the application of the theorem than its proof, it’s still useful to see the similarities and the differences of moving from the proof of the result for scalars to the same result for matrices. Sc...

Book Abstract: How to Write an Emergency Plan by David Alexander; Reproduced by Permission

In 2002, David Alexander wrote Principles of Emergency Planning and Management. Long a standard reference work in that book he described the processes of preparing for and responding to disasters, crises, and civil contingencies. He based the work on principles because he wanted to dissociate it from any particular system of emergency management. Then, as now, many books in this subject are tie...