Eureka: France takes ‘British’ tack

Eureka moments.

Winter 2004 A ll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered,” wrote astronomer Galileo Galilei. “The point is to discover them.” The 17th-century Italian is best known as the inventor of the telescope, but if he’d been drawn to the life sciences instead of the physical sciences, he might have conceived of the microscope. As it was, the idea of using lenses to see tiny rather than fa...

Tack Hernia: A New Entity

The repair of incisional and ventral hernias by the laparoscopic method is finding its place in the general surgical field. The use of tacks and transfascial sutures is commonplace. A new hernia has been identified. Two hernias have been seen following the successful repair of incisional hernias. These did not appear to be recurrent hernias as definite findings of fascial defects were present r...

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Eureka-2008 SAT Solver

We describe the SAT solver Eureka. Eureka is a state-of-the-art SAT solver, used in various Formal Verification flows at Intel. Eureka is based upon backtrack search DLL algorithm, enhanced by failure-driven assertion loop; nonstandard conflict analyses; restart and clause deletion strategies; CBH decision heuristic and decision stack shrinking.

THE EUREKa HUNT

T summer of 1949 was long and dry in Montana. On the afternoon of August 5th—the hottest day ever recorded in the state—a lightning fire was spotted in a remote area of pine forest. A parachute brigade of fifteen firefighters known as smoke jumpers was dispatched to put out the blaze; the man in charge was named Wag Dodge. When the jumpers left Missoula, in a C-47 cargo plane, they were told th...