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Your Magazine (From the Editor) - Control Systems Magazine, IEEE

Surely, you’ve read in-flight magazines, even when you’ve had work to do. Articles on fascinating subjects such as the science of laughter and the world’s best concierge are hard to resist. But suppose you’d tucked the magazine you’re now reading into the seat pocket in front of you and then inadvertently abandoned it upon reaching your destination. What chain of events might such an oversight ...

The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

Recovering from Erroneous Inferences

*This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants IST-81-20685 and IST-85-12419 and by the Naval Ocean Systems Center under contracts N00123-81-C-1078 and N6600183-C-0255. ‘Experimental evidence indicates that either interpretation is equally likely when this text is presented to human subjects (Granger & Holbrook, 1983). happy, how does the understander resol...

Recovering Watermarks from Images

Many techniques for watermarking of digital images have appeared recently. Most of these techniques are sensitive to cropping and/or a ne distortions (e.g., rotation and scaling). In this paper we describe a method for recognizing images based on the concept of identi cation marks; the method does not require the use of the \original" image, but only a small number of salient image points. We s...

From the Editor-in-Chief: Make Some Time to Share Your Creative Ideas and Best Practices!

Editorial May brings warmer weather, the end of a semester, and the beginning of what I like to call " conference season. " Conferences are an important venue for sharing our work and rejuvenating our teaching. Biology educators will have an opportunity to gather at many interesting meetings and conferences this summer to share new ideas and best practices. Of course, the American Society for M...