“Orpheus’ Sermon”: Making a Case for an Antiquer Dickinson

Comparative Classification for Administrators: A Short Sermon

It appears that in too many instances the administrators who must decide what classification schemes libraries should use lack understanding of comparative classification. As a result, these decisions are frequently based upon irrelevant considerations. The author points to the several weighty reasons for claiming that such systems as Bliss, the Colon Scheme, and the UDC are superior to those i...

ORPHEUS: Mental Simulation as Support for Decision-Making in a Virtual Agent

Using mental simulation as a means of selecting actions for an agent is not new to the scientific community, but implementations from literature focus on specific scenarios and strategies built by domain-experts. In this paper, we propose a generic decision-making agent architecture which uses mental simulation. Our architecture allows an agent to predict both physical phenomena and behavior of...

A Dickinson Triptych.mus

Emily Dickinson

Biography Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the elder daughter of lawyer Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Dickinson was the second of three children, a year younger than her brother, William, and three years older than her sister, Lavinia. She was born in a large house built by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson; except for a...

Hugh Dickinson

Crump interprets the stories, rather than simply recounting them. Her background as a research biologist, and her fi eld experience with native peoples, give her a broad perspective on the topic. She weaves a deft blend of summary and commentary, and often returns to emergent themes. Why do particular species appear in leading roles? Why do snakes and toads so often end up both as hero and vill...