Goethe, Rolli, and "Solitario Bosco Ombroso"

Goethe for prosody

In this paper, we describe the way in which a recording of Goethe’s “Die Leiden des jungen Werther” published on a multimedia CDROM [7] was made accessible for prosody research. The recording is interesting for prosody research because of its prosodic richness as it displays a large variety of registers and speaking styles. Application areas are: development of prosody models for German TTS, un...

Goethe and the Molecular Aesthetic

I argue here that Goethe’s “delicate empiricism” is not an alternative approach to science, but an approach that scientists use consistently, though they usually do not label it as such. I further contend that Goethe’s views are relevant to today’s science, specifically to work on the structure of macromolecules such as proteins. Using the work of Agnes Arber, a botanist and philosopher of scie...

Goethe and the Evolution of Science

This article is based on a talk Craig gave in October 2013 at the New York Academy of Sciences. The talk was sponsored by the Lyceum Society within the Academy, a group consisting mainly of semi-retired and retired scientists who invite guest speakers to speak about topics of interest. About 35 scientists attended Craig’s talk, which was followed by a lively question and answer session. Clearly...

The Fool's Truth: Diderot, Goethe, and Hegel

Bosco: One-Step Byzantine Asynchronous Consensus

Asynchronous Byzantine consensus algorithms are an important primitive for building Byzantine fault-tolerant systems. Algorithms for Byzantine consensus typically require at least two communication steps for decision; in many systems, this imposes a significant performance overhead. In this paper, we show that it is possible to design Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithms that decide in...