Claim to Fame

A claim to fame: Thomas Sydenham.

How to Claim a Discovery

Setting limits for new particles or decay modes has been an active research area for many years. In high energy physics it received renewed interest with the unified method by Feldman and Cousins [1]. Giunti [2] and Roe and Woodroofe [3] gave variations of the unified method, trying to resolve an apparent anomaly when there are fewer events in the signal region than expected. They all discuss t...

Using FAME Assessments to Define Measurement Goals

Although assessment-based approaches and measurement-based approaches are often considered as competitors, they compliment each other very well. Assessments are strong in identifying improvement objectives within a relatively short time frame, but are weak in guiding the actual implementation of the proposed changes. Measurement, however, supports very well in supporting actual changes and prov...

Estimating achievement from fame

We report a method for estimating people’s achievement based on their fame. Earlier we discovered that fame of fighter pilot aces (measured as number of Google hits) grows exponentially with their achievement (number of victories). We hypothesize that the same functional relation between achievement and fame holds for other professions. This allows us to estimate achievement for professions whe...

The "FAME" Interactive Space

This paper describes the “FAME” multi-modal demonstrator, which integrates multiple communication modes – vision, speech and object manipulation – by combining the physical and virtual worlds to provide support for multi-cultural or multi-lingual communication and problem solving. The major challenges are automatic perception of human actions and understanding of dialogs between people from dif...