E-workshop on ‘Luminescence Dating Technique and New Applications’: A Report

Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating (Instrument Design for Mars Applications)

Introduction: To examine the geological and climatic history on Mars, we investigate an instrument design for robotic, in-situ, Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating (OSL). In this paper, we discuss the basic concepts of OSL, its benefits, and how this technique can be utilized on Mars. Also presented are the vital electronics needed for an instrument design and some of their basic operation...

Workshop Report on New Technologies for Chess

The moderator opened the session by briefly reviewing the highlights of the previous workshop, drawing the listener’s attention particularly to the contributions of those who were not present this year. He cited the work of Ken Thompson, who had described a hardware-software system for reliably transcribing game listings in chess books into machine readable form, thus making it possible to corr...

Cation-Ratio Dating: A New Rock Varnish Age-Determination Technique

Rock varnish coats many surfaces of geomorphic and archaeologic interest in arid lands. All varnish dating techniques are limited by the time lag between the exposure of a surface to subaerial processes and the onset of varnishing. They are valid only where manganese is not remobilized after deposition, for example, in most arid environments. The premise of a new age-determination method, catio...

RecSys WORKSHOP REPORT Report on RecSys 2014 Workshop on New Trends in Content-Based Recommender Systems

While content-based recommendation has been applied successfully in many different domains, it has not seen the same level of attention as collaborative filtering techniques have. However, there are many recommendation domains and applications where content and metadata play a key role, either in addition to or instead of ratings and implicit usage data. For some domains, such as movies, the re...

ESR dating of barite in sea-floor hydrothermal deposits, a new dating technique