Computer – monster? Or helper?

Taming Lakatos' Monster - Computer Virus Epidemics and Internet Security Policy

A few months back I received an email inviting me to speak at WebNet 2000. I was pleasantly surprised and ready to accept until I read the proposed topic of my talk “computer security and computer viruses”. I was dumbfounded. I am a lawyer by training, teaching at a policy school and in my research I focus on information technology policy. Why on earth then do they want me to talk about compute...

Monster Roots

Monster Analogies

tion. Over the centuries, it has become reified in that analogical reasoning has sometimes been regarded as a fundamental cognitive process. In addition, it has become identified with a particular expressive format. The limitations of the modern view are illustrated by monster analogies, which show that analogy need not be regarded as something having a single form, format, or semantics. Analog...

The “monster” Study

The diagnosogenic (semantogenic) theory for the onset of stuttering was initially proposed by Wendell Johnson in the early 1940s. It suggested that calling attention to a child’s normal hesitations (repetitions) could precipitate stuttering (Bloodstein, 1987). Some of the evidence that Johnson used to support this theory (e.g., certain tribes of American Indians, in which there appeared to be n...

Monster : A Tool for Analyzing the Interaction Between Operating Systems and Computer Architectures

To enable computer designers to better evaluate the architectural needs of operating systems, we have developed Monster , a tool which combines hardware and software monitoring techniques to unobtrusively obtain system performance data. This report is split into two major parts. In Part I, we argue the need for OS performance evaluation tools, summarize previous hardware and software based moni...