Guests Who Stay

Transit-Induced Gentrification: Who Will Stay, and Who Will Go?

Unwelcome Guests: Exotic Forest Pests

Exotic forest pests cost China and the United States billions of dollars each year. Current regulatory systems worldwide are overwhelmed with the increasing volume of international trade. Trade in nursery stock, wood products, pallets and dunnage have proven the most common means of transport for exotic forest pests. Despite our best efforts, pests such as chestnut blight, gypsy moth, Dutch elm...

Defining the Permissions of Guests

Within the scenario of a Smart Home, we discuss the issues involved in allowing limited interaction with the environment for unidentified principals, or guests. The challenges include identifying and authenticating guests on one hand and delegating authorization to them on the other. While the technical mechanisms for doing so in generic distributed systems have been around for decades, existin...

Orca Technical Note: Guests and Guest Controllers

This paper incorporates material from a variety of previously published works with various authors, including Laura Grit’s thesis and David Irwin’s thesis. It supersedes related material from those sources.

How many guests, what sort of hosts?

To the Editor: Lansing et al. (1) offer an intriguing approach to the prehistory of the island of Sumba. There is at least one critical f law in the reasoning used, the assumption that the languages of Sumba form a subgroup, being all derived from a single ancestral language, Proto-Sumba. The comparative method used by the authors allows us to subgroup languages together if two criteria are met...