Images and Ideas in Russian Peasant Art

The ART behind IDEAS

The IDEAS design system is an innovative algorithm engineering environment. It can be employed to derive correct and e cient software or hardware implementations from algebraic speci cations using the advanced formal method ART. Several case studies for some algorithm engineering tasks are discussed in this article to demonstrate the feasibility of this system.

Art Ideas for Busy Kids

Images, Art and Education

Russian Peasant Multiplication Algorithm, RSA Cryptosystem, and a New Explanation of Half-Orders of Magnitude

In his papers, J. Hobbs has observed that when people make crude estimates, they usually feel reasonably comfortable choosing between alternatives which differ by a half order of magnitude (HOM). He also provided an explanation for this level of granularity based on the need for the resulting crude estimates to represent both the original data and the result of processing this data. According t...

The Aesthetics of the Machine in the 20th Century Art based on Don Ihde’s Ideas

The increasing growth of technology in the twentieth century has brought about profound developments in the relations between man and the world. These developments, which included large industries and automatic and semi-automatic machines, necessitated the question of technology not only by intellectuals, but also by artists. Thus, different approaches to technology were formed, all of which we...