Pencils to Processors (A Sort of Memoir)

Algorithm and Hardware for a Merge Sort Using Multiple Processors

An algorithm is described that allows log ( n ) processors to sort n records in just over 2n write cycles, together with suitable hardware to support the algorithm. The algorithm is a parallel version of the straight merge sort. The passes of the merge sort are run overlapped, with each pass supported by a separate processor. The intermediate files of a serial merge sort are replaced by first-i...

Creating the Right Sort of Ship to Achieve Integrated Care: A Response to Recent Commentaries

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

A Memoir on Memory

on to work with another of the founding fathers of the field, Eric Kandel, and then moved into the orbit of entre-preneurial memory science as a " director of model sys-Memories Are Made of This tems " at Helicon Therapeutics. By Rusiko Bourtchouladze In this book, Dr. Bourtchouladze has produced a New York: Columbia University Press (2002). charming little introduction to the history of resear...

Paul Erdős: a memoir

My memoirs of Paul Erdős will be almost all entirely personal, but I would like to begin with two small incidents illustrating attitudes of the mathematical community and the wider world to Paul. Both took place on trains. After I received my copy of the two-volume work The Mathematics of Paul Erdős [13] (published just after Paul’s death), I was reading it on the train home from work. Sitting ...