John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him

John Wilkes and the Foundling Hospital at Aylesbury

improved: expectation of life at twenty rose, age at marriage for women fell, more land was available. But plague had left a middle-aged and elderly population, and by 1400 Halesowen was doomed to demographic stagnation for a generation or more. This general picture had been suggested by much previous work on medieval agrarian society, but it had not been established in such overwhelming and co...

The Chatbot Who Loved Me

The paper describes the BotCom complex embedded conversational agent system, which is accessible over the Internet and capable of high quality natural language processing as well as sophisticated manipulation of emotions. It relies on an extension of Plutchik’s emotional model. Experimental cases leading to useful constraints for optimization are discussed. BotCom, a prototype for a robust comm...

Lester Reed: A "complex" man who loved science.

Lester J. Reed, a pioneer in the field of biochemistry, died peacefully in Austin, Texas on January 14, 2015 at the age of 90. Lester Reed was born in New Orleans on January 3, 1925. He showed an early interest in chemistry, having his own laboratory in a shed under his boyhood home. He received his Bachelors of Science from Tulane in 1943, where he worked with William Shive, and earned his doc...

John Stuart Mill, the Subjection of Women

Moochers and Makers in the Voting Booth Who Benefits from federal spending and hoW

the 2012 election campaign popularized the notion that people who benefit from federal spending vote for democrats, while people who pay the preponderance of taxes vote republican. a survey conducted during the election included questions to test this hypothesis and to assess the accuracy of voters’ perceptions of federal spending. Voters’ perceptions of their benefit from federal spending are ...