Probability without Tears

Bargaining Theory without Tears

Fermi Fields without Tears

This article is meant to be a pedagogical discussion of spinors and of Majorana and Dirac fields in the context of Weinberg’s formalism. Fermi Fields without Tears 2

Bayesian Networks without Tears

50 AI MAGAZINE u n d e r s t a n d i n g (Charniak and Goldman 1989a, 1989b; Goldman 1990), vision (Levitt, Mullin, and Binford 1989), heuristic search (Hansson and Mayer 1989), and so on. It is probably fair to say that Bayesian networks are to a large segment of the AI-uncertainty community what resolution theorem proving is to the AIlogic community. Nevertheless, despite what seems to be the...

Relativity without tears

Special relativity is no longer a new revolutionary theory but a firmly established cornerstone of modern physics. The teaching of special relativity, however, still follows its presentation as it unfolded historically, trying to convince the audience of this teaching that Newtonian physics is natural but incorrect and special relativity is its paradoxical but correct amendment. I argue in this...

Drama Without Tears

This tutorial describes the Drama Theory paradigm and two of the techniques used to apply the theory – Confrontation Analysis and Immersive Briefings. The historical development of Drama Theory is discussed, followed by a detailed description of the ways in which an analyst can exploit Drama Theory to study various forms of conflict. Examples of the theory in use are scattered throughout the te...