Paul Willard Merrill, 1887-1961

Willard Thompson

Complexity theory has a profound influence on the field of cryptology. The time complexity of breaking a cipher system must be significant enough to thwart any adversary from succeeding. However, with the emergence of quantum computers an adversary may have no difficulty in breaking known cipher systems. If quantum computers would exist today new mechanisms for security would need to be built. ...

Willard Burr Soper

Samual Willard: An Unreliable Narrator

Victor Jollos ( 1887 - 1941 )

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...

r - - I 6 Sentence Processing Merrill

It is commonplace and perfectly correct to speak of language as the "glue" that holds human society together, that links past and future in a social . intellectual, and legal tradition . No other behavioral capacity is more central to our individual comfort and success in society . That capacity depends upon an incredibly complex set of cognitive systems, served by a set of motor and perceptual...