DR. ELLIOT GOLDNER

Dr. Elliot Rapaport: a true legend.

Kira Goldner

Given an input of two images, our goal was to produce an angled dice structure that presents the first image when observed from the left, and the second when observed from the right. We converted the images to grayscale, divided the image into a dice board, and assigned each die-block of pixels a gray-value. Then, we optimized the face of the die assigned to each die-block for each image to hav...

Elliot Anshelevich

My research interests center in the design and analysis of algorithms, especially in large decentralized networks. My main focus has largely been on algorithmic game theory, and more specifically on networks involving strategic agents. In order to understand such networks, I also study diffusion processes in social networks, and more generally approximation algorithms. An increasing number of n...

1284 Elliot and Sheldon

Three studies demonstrated that avoidance personal goals are positively related to physical symptom reports. These results were obtained (a) using both longitudinal and retrospective methodologies and (b) controlling for neuroticism and other alternative predictor variables. In 2 of the studies, a process model was validated in which perceived competence and perceived controlledness were shown ...

Thomas Elliot, 1817-1859; a forgotten ophthalmologist.

But Doctor, it's only Jimmie's right eye that has the cast. Why must you operate on the other one as well? How often has a puzzled parent confronted us with that question and, before answering, who among us has ever wondered what brave man first grasped his courage and advanced his scalpel at the " good eye "? That man died almost one hundred years ago; he lived in the then remote town of Carli...