Charlotte Carcassonne (1938-1999)

Better Game Studies Education the Carcassonne Way

As game design programs become more common, educators are faced with challenges in bringing the formal study of games to students. In particular, educators must find ways to help students transition from viewing games purely as entertainment to a field worthy of critical study. One aspect of this transition is to view games on the level of mechanics rather than purely in terms of aesthetics. Th...

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Charlotte Kristensen Knatten

Utility Servers in Charlotte

Most distributed operating systems are built with a kernel replicated in each machine that supports only basic interprocess communication (IPC) and process control. All other system services, such as memory management, file system, and name service, are distributed in a set of utility servers, which are ordinary processes (except perhaps for some privileges) residing at various machines. Design...

Lynn Margulis, 1938-2011.

O n November 22, 2011, Lynn Margulis, visionary biologist and tireless champion of the microbial world, died of a massive stroke. Born in 1938, Lynn was intellectually precocious, earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago at age 18 and a Berkeley PhD 6 years later. Lynn’s enduring place in science was earned soon thereafter, with the publication of her theory of endosymbiosis...