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Porphyrin ‘‘Mille-Feuilles” photo-electrodes

A porphyrin ‘‘Mille-Feuilles” photo-electrode is fabricated layer-by-layer by deposition of anionic [zinc meso-tetrakis(p-sulfonato phenyl) porphyrin] (ZnTPPS ) and positively charged polypeptides on a 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid-modified gold electrode to form a photoactive film. This work demonstrates that it is possible to form 3D structures having regularly spaced layers of redox molecules. ...

Optimal Play of the Farkle Dice Game

We present and solve optimality equations for the 2-player, jeopardy dice game Farkle (a.k.a. Dix Mille, Ten Thousand). For fairest play, we recommend 200 compensation points at the beginning of the game for the second player. We then compute the strategy that maximizes expected score, demonstrate a means for replicating such play with mental mathematics, and augment this method so as to enable...

INFORMATION PROCESSING, CONTEXT and PRIVACY Alan Dix

This paper is about an old concept, data processing, but one that has taken on new meaning with the increasing complexity and interconnection of systems and the burgeoning of expert systems and connectionism. Classical information theory has been found to be inadequate even in the relatively formal context of security, but this inadequacy is intensified when we consider more human issues like p...

Dhaval Vyas – Alan Dix – Anton Nijholt

Frameworks such as activity theory, distributed cognition and structuration theory, amongst others, have shown that detailed study of contextual settings where users work (or live) could help the design of interactive systems. However, these frameworks do not adequately focus on accounting for the materiality (and embodiment) of the contextual settings. Within the IST-EU funded AMIDA project (A...

On Viewing a Portrait by Otto Dix.