DANIEL PENNCAC: FROM DETECTIVE TO AUTOFICTION

How to Read Autofiction

"classic Detective Story Plot" 1 from "the Formula of the Classical Detective Story"

The changing cultural mythology of crime has given rise to many different popular formulas. Some of these have been essentially adventure stories or melodramas, but one of the most striking embodies the cultural mythology of detectives, criminals, police, and suspects in an archetypal form that is almost pure mystery. The classical or ratiocinative detective story was first clearly articulated ...

Disease detective applies skills to surveillance evaluation.

I am a second-year Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer assigned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program). EIS offcers, commonly referred to as “disease detectives,” have opportunities to apply our skills to many public health activities beyond outbreak investigations and emergency response. One o...

ISWC 2013 — Wearables Are Here to Stay Daniel Roggen , Daniel

Hot toPICS In numbers, ISWC was a tremendous success. We received 101 submissions— the largest number in the last eight years—making for a selective 23 percent acceptance rate for oral presentations. Furthermore, ISWC was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, which merged the UbiComp and Pervasive conferences. (See this issue’s Conferences ...

The Value of Detective Stories

On a recent Sunday morning, The Times-Picayune, a newspaper from New Orleans, carried news that two young people had been arrested for an arson death, that a jury had convicted a man of killing a waitress in a robbery, and that a 15-year-old escapee from a youth detention facility had been recaptured. Those three stories were among the six main stories making up the first two pages of the local...