NETmundial: only a landmark event if 'Digital Cold War' rhetoric abandoned

Embedding If and Only If

Compounds of indicative conditionals present some puzzling phenomena. Perhaps most striking, some nested indicative conditionals are uninterpretable. Proponents of NTV hold that indicative conditionals do not have truth values, and they use this to explain why nested indicative conditionals are sometimes uninterpretable: the embedded conditional does not provide the truth conditions needed by t...

Inria: From Cold-War Computing to Digital Sciences

The new cold war

As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job. Over the past few years while conducting research during Arctic operations (Figure 1) we have experienced the challenges of trying to conduct basics tasks outside in the extreme cold. As civilian scientis...

If I Only Had A Brane!

This thesis starts with a review of supersymmetric solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity; in particular flat M-branes and BPS configurations which can be constructed from them. The harmonic function rule is discussed and it is shown why this cannot be expected to apply to intersecting brane configurations where the intersection is localised. A new class of spacetimes is needed to cover these...

Accidental nuclear war--a post-cold war assessment.

BACKGROUND In the 1980s, many medical organizations identified the prevention of nuclear war as one of the medical profession's most important goals. An assessment of the current danger is warranted given the radically changed context of the post-Cold War era. METHODS We reviewed the recent literature on the status of nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war. We then estimated the likely ...