Machines that Handle Information

Molecular machines that control genes.

Molecular processes that handle -- and mishandle -- dietary lipids.

Overconsumption of lipid-rich diets, in conjunction with physical inactivity, disables and kills staggering numbers of people worldwide. Recent advances in our molecular understanding of cholesterol and triglyceride transport from the small intestine to the rest of the body provide a detailed picture of the fed/fasted and active/sedentary states. Key surprises include the unexpected nature of m...

Requirements that Handle IKIWISI, COTS, and Rapid Change

And, while avoiding design decisions about how all of this should be accomplished, you had to ensure that the requirements detailed the software’s capabilities and any quality levels it must satisfy. Completing these tasks might take time, but it was the only way you could guarantee that the delivered software conformed to original specifications. And, if you were contracting for software devel...

Implementing Parser Metarules that Handle Speech Repairs and Other Disruptions

Mixed-initiative dialogs often contain interruptions in phrase structure such as repairs and backchannel responses. Phrase structure as traditionally de ned does not accommodate such phenomena, so it is not surprising that phrase structure parsers are ill-equipped to handle them. This paper presents metarules that specify how the instantiations of phrase structure rules may be restarted or inte...

Methods Used to Handle Overloading of Information in Usenet

Usenet is the name of a worldwide network of servers for group communication between people. From 1979 and onwards, it has seen a near exponential growth in the amount of data transported, which has been a strain on bandwidth and storage. There has been a wide range of academic research with focus on the WWW, but Usenet has been neglected. Instead, Usenet’s evolution has been dominated by pract...