Jewel Mullen Comments

Oberon - The Overlooked Jewel

Niklaus Wirth has received much deserved fame for the creation of Pascal, but in many ways, he subsequently became a victim of Pascal's success. In an age of rising specialization, in which most researchers are trying to define themselves as experts in increasingly narrow domains, Wirth stands out as a rare generalist, almost an “Universalgenie” of our discipline. Sadly, the larger computer sci...

A 10-Dimensional Jewel

In 3 dimensions there are five regular polyhedra – the Platonic solids. In four dimensions there are six such polytopes. If we allow the polygonal faces to intersect then we also obtain the four Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra in 3 dimensions and 10 such objects in 4 dimensions. If we also allow these constructions to be single-sided, then we can form some non-orientable cells such as the hemi-cube, h...

Mullen Scales of Early Learning: AGS Edition

August 2015 Overview The Mullen Scales of Early Learning: AGS Edition (Mullen, 1995) is an individually administered, standardized measure of cognitive functioning designed to be used with children from birth through 68 months. This update is a revised version of the original Mullen Scales of Early Learning, combining the Infant MSEL with the Preschool MSEL. It consists of a GrossMotor Scale an...

The space station's crown jewel.

2 Four Jewel – Problems About Borderlines

This is a list of research topics prepared on the occasion of the Fourth Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, Sevilla, January 30 – February 3, 2006 (hence the title). The selection is subjective, the presentation is informal (in most cases, the precise formulation of the question to investigate is already part of the research task), the bibliographical information is partial (giving only ...