Naming as art in Shakespeare’s Tempest

A Scientific Tempest

Brand Pitt: A Corpus to Explore the Art of Naming

The name of a company or a brand is the key element to a successful business. A good name is able to state the area of competition and communicate the promise given to customers by evoking semantic associations. Although various resources provide distinct tips for inventing creative names, little research was carried out to investigate the linguistic aspects behind the naming mechanism. Besides...

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...

Tempest: Temporal Dynamics in Anonymity Systems

Many recent proposals for anonymous communication omit from their security analyses a consideration of the effects of time on important system components. In practice, many components of anonymity systems, such as the client location and network structure, exhibit changes and patterns over time. In this paper, we focus on the effect of such temporal dynamics on the security of anonymity network...

New superbug or tempest in a teapot?

In mid-February this year, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden called a press conference to announce that a case of rapidly progressing, multidrugresistant HIV/AIDS had been identified. Although drug resistance is common, and rapid progression to AIDS is rare but not unheard of, it is the combination of both factors in one patient that raised the fear among public health officials ...