Cataracts in a Mongolian Idiot

The Superficial Idiot—A Type

entire mental situation. The two cases cited here illustrate the recognition of a definite type through the presentation of a single symptom. Alexander was just three years old when he was brought to the Psychological Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania because of his peculiar behavior and inability to speak. While the mother was giving the usual data in regard to his birth, babyhood, etc....

Idiot-Proofing Authentication

We develop a mechanism by which a server can guarantee that client passwords contain a certain amount of (actually random) entropy while not actually knowing these passwords. We define and implement a protocol between a client and server used during password generation. Importantly, while we greatly modify the process of generating a password, the actual day-to-day use of this password is mostl...

'A tale told by an idiot'.

Evaluation of Babbling Idiot Failures in Flexray-based Networkes

This paper evaluates the error propagation and its effects in babbling idiot failure in a FlexRay-based network. The evaluation is based on about 35680 bit-flip fault injections inside different parts of the FlexRay communication controller. To do this, a FlexRay communication controller is modeled by Verilog HDL at the behavioral level. Then, this controller is exploited to setup a FlexRay-bas...

Neuropsychological analysis of an idiot savant: A case study.

Although biological etiologies and diffuse anatomical changes have been provided as plausible explanations for the unusual behaviors observed in idiot savants, no neuropsychological case studies or explanations for these behaviors are found in the literature. We present a case in which the "diagnosis" of idiot savant was based on historical, clinical, and test data. To assess his calendar abili...