Dr. Frank Clowes

Frank Kelly and Dr Richard Steinberg , University of Cambridge

In Public Notice DA 00-1075, the Federal Communications Commission seeks further comment on modifying the simultaneous multiple round auction design to allow combinatorial (package) bidding. In particular, under II.A (Auction Design and Procedures; Simultaneously Multiple Round with Package Bidding), the question is asked as to whether the Commission should allow all possible packages composed ...

Robert Clowes , Steve Torrance

Readers of this Journal are used to considering questions to do with consciousness and subjectivity in humans and other natural creatures. However it is instructive to devote some attention to the realm of artificial subjectivity — as a bare possibility, even if not as a likelihood in the near future. Following the first special issue of this journal on the topic of machine consciousness (Holla...

The Selected Writings of William Clowes

Frank Mittelbach

[Background of this unusual double interview: the Free Software Magazine (http:// www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) and the TEX Users Group (TUG) both like to publish interviews. By chance, Gianluca Pignalberi of FSM and Dave Walden of TUG both approached Frank Mittelbach about interviewing him around the same time. Rather than doing two separate interviews, Mittelbach, Pignalberi, and Walden decid...

Frank : Frank: The LOD Cloud at Your Fingertips

Large-scale, algorithmic access to LOD Cloud data has been hampered by the absence of queryable endpoints for many datasets, a plethora of serialization formats, and an abundance of idiosyncrasies such as syntax errors. As of late, very large-scale — hundreds of thousands of document, tens of billions of triples — access to RDF data has become possible thanks to the LOD Laundromat Web Service. ...