Holocaust and Parallax

Primitive Parallax and Parallax Primitives

This paper describes an implementation of parallax depth perception designed to be a contributing unit to a distributed perceptual intelligence. The work was done in the context of the Cog project, a large-scale eeort to develop human or at least infant intelligence from the bottom up. Our implementation uses fast-approximation \good enough" region mapping and relevant motion detection over mul...

Transmission of Holocaust Trauma

Transmission of Holocaust Trauma Much has been written about how children of Holocaust survivors tend to absorb some of the psychological burdens of their parents. But many questions remain to be answered regarding such parental transmission of Holocaust trauma. What was in fact passed on from parent to child? How does the transmission occur? Do parents invariably transmit and are children equa...

The Holocaust and Moral Education

F""("1he belief that schoo~ hav.e a resp?nsibility t~ teach ~ values is a very old Idea m Amencan education. In recent years, however, the aims and methods of programs in moral education have become a subject of intense debate. Some critics believe that such programs distract schools from their essential academic mission. Religious conservatives, wary of curricula that they perceive as favoring...

The Holocaust and German psychiatry.

The Holocaust under the Nazi regime is probably the most traumatic catastrophe of our century and even of history in the civilised world. Its deepest abyss consumed the lives of one-third of the world's Jewish population, who were selected and murdered in a cold-blooded industrialised machinery of death in this their †̃¿ Shoa'. The Jewish people represent the victims of the Holocaust more than...

German Women and the Holocaust