In Memory of Jacob Schwartz

In Memory of Jacob Schwartz

A few months after Jack Schwartz’s death on March 2, 2009, a memorial gathering was held for him at the Courant Institute of New York University, his home base for almost fifty years. The well-planned program included a few piano pieces and almost a dozen speakers, each of whom had collaborated with Jack in one or more of his many activities. Those present would have heard the speakers talk about:

Response to Schwartz: Dreaming and episodic memory.

Jacob Et Al : an Analytical Model for Designing Memory Hierarchies

| Memory hierarchies have long been studied by many means: system building, trace-driven simulation, and mathematical analysis. Yet little help is available for the system designer wishing to quickly size the diierent levels in a memory hierarchy to a rst-order approximation. In this paper , we present a simple analysis for providing this practical help and some unexpected results and intuition...

the effects of keyword and context methods on pronunciation and receptive/ productive vocabulary of low-intermediate iranian efl learners: short-term and long-term memory in focus

از گذشته تا کنون، تحقیقات بسیاری صورت گرفته است که همگی به گونه ای بر مثمر ثمر بودن استفاده از استراتژی های یادگیری لغت در یک زبان بیگانه اذعان داشته اند. این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر دو روش مختلف آموزش واژگان انگلیسی (کلیدی و بافتی) بر تلفظ و دانش لغوی فراگیران ایرانی زیر متوسط زبان انگلیسی و بر ماندگاری آن در حافظه می پردازد. به این منظور، تعداد شصت نفر از زبان آموزان ایرانی هشت تا چهارده ساله با...

Marc Schwartz

LFA-1 activation plays a major role in reducing the velocity of rolling leukocytes and causing firm adhesion to the endothelium. The signaling cascades that cause LFA-1 activation during this process have been described through mostly correlative experiments, but the precise occurrence and location of LFA-1 activation in response to specific signals has not been directly shown. Tim Springer’s g...