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Károly Simonyi A Cultural History of Physics

style and especially the fact that he tended to undervalue his own work may also have played a role: The importance of this question induced me to investigate it recently; the results that I obtained agree on all major points with those of Lorentz; only in some isolated questions I feel compelled to modify or supplement them; in the future, their differences will come to light; they are of only...

Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making and Control

Cooperative-problem-solving negotiations in competitive environments involve an initial conclusion of commitments as well as their possible adaptations during their execution. Conclusion of commitments, breaching the commitments (decommitments), their replanning and reconfiguration introduce means of achieving flexibility in cooperation among self-interested agents and require adequate negotiat...

Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making and Control

On whose shoulders we stand – the pioneering entomological discoveries of Károly Sajó *

The excellence of Károly Sajó as a researcher into Hungary's natural history has been undeservedly neglected. Yet he did lasting work, especially in entomology, and a number of his discoveries and initiatives were before their time.Born in 1851 in Győr, he received his secondary education there and went to Pest University. He taught in a grammar school in 1877-88 before spending seven years as ...

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Program Chairs Margo Seltzer and Ric Wheeler opened FAST ’09 by thanking the contributors and stressing the value of interaction between students and attendees. Best Paper awards were presented to “CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System” by Batsakis, Burns, Kanevsky, Lentini, and Talpey of NetApp and Johns Hopkins, and to “Generating Realistic Impressions for File System Benchmarking” b...