Ouabain - A gift from paradise

From GranSim to Paradise

We describe PARADISE (PARAllel DIstribution Simulator for Eden) a simulator developed to proole the execution of programs written in the parallel functional programming language Eden BLOMP96], BLOMP97]. Eden extends the lazy functional language Haskell by syntactic constructs to explicitly deene processes. Paradise is a substantial modiication of GranSim HLP94], Loi96], Loi98], a tool to study ...

Paradise SQL Queries Result Paradise Tuples Paradise Client Process Paradise

This paper describes the design and implementation of Paradise, a database system designed for handling GIS type of applications. The current version of Paradise, uses a client{server architecture and provides an extended{relational data model for modeling GIS applications. Paradise supports an extended version of SQL and provides a graphical user interface for querying and browsing the databas...

A centennial gift from Einstein.

The 1919 detection of the apparent displacement of background stars near the edge of the eclipsed Sun’s disk provided one of the first convincing proofs of Einstein’s theory of general relativity (1, 2). Almost 100 years later, Sahu et al. report on page 1046 of this issue the first measurement of the gravitational deflection of starlight by a star other than the Sun (3). Using the superior ang...

Honoring a Gift from Kumbakonam

2 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 53, NUMBER 6 T oday was an absolutely glorious day in Madison, Wisconsin. It is Christmas 2005, and everyone in the house is asleep after a long day of enjoying family, opening presents, and eating enormous portions of mashed potatoes and yule log cake. Yet powerful images keep me awake. Thirty-six hours ago I returned from a six-day whirlwind journey to a far-off pl...

From Parking Lot to Paradise.