Constructing the Monster amalgam

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...

Taming the Cookie Monster

Computing in the Monster

We give a survey of computational methods and results concerning the Monster sporadic simple group. There are now three computer constructions of the Monster which are proving effective in answering real questions about this group. The first construction over the field of two elements is the fastest for calculations, and has been used to show the group is a Hurwitz group. The second constructio...

On the Rosenberger Monster

In this paper we obtain structure results for the largest finite generalized triangle group that has been called the Rosenberger Monster. These structure results are motivated by their application for finding various homological functors for this group.

The Chess Monster Hydra

With the help of the FPGA technology, the boarder between hardand software has vanished. It is now possible to develop complex designs and fine grained parallel applications without the long-lasting chip design cycles. Additionally, it has become easier to write coarse grained parallel applications with the help of message passing libraries like MPI. The chess program Hydra is a high level hard...