L’écriture impossible de Richard Millet

Président: M. Jean-Pierre Richard Professeur, Ecole Centrale de Lille

Richard N . Taylor Web - Based De Complex Inform

Want to launch a virtual enterprise using the Web as your technology infrastructure? First learn what's missing from today's Web architecture and which extensions are needed for large-scale collaboration. T he WorldWide Web connects islands of information, along with the people seeking that information, from within corporate intranets and across the global Internet, easily and effectively. Shar...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Impossible Frontiers

A key result of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is that the market portfolio— the portfolio of all assets in which each asset’s weight is proportional to its total market capitalization—lies on the mean-variance-efficient frontier, the set of portfolios having mean-variance characteristics that cannot be improved upon. Therefore, the CAPM cannot be consistent with efficient frontiers for...

Impossible Words?

The idea that quotidian, middle-level concepts typically have internal structure-definitional, statistical, or whatever—plays a central role in practically every current approach to cognition. Correspondingly, the idea that words that express quotidian, middle-level concepts have complex representations "at the semantic level" is recurrent in linguistics; it is the defining thesis of what is of...