Proposition 13 Thirty Years after the Revolution: What Would Howard Jarvis Say?

WWTS (What Would Turing Say?)

If you are reading these words, surely you are already familiar with the Imitation Game proposed by Alan Turing (1950). Or are you? Turing was heavily influenced by the World War II “game” of allied and axis pilots and ground stations each trying to fool the enemy into thinking they were friendlies. So his imagined test for AI involved an interrogator being told that he or she was about to inte...

Thirty years after the bupivacaine controversy: what have we learned?

In October 1979, Albright wrote an editorial warning of the risks of cardiac toxicity due to bupivacaine and etidocaine. The editorial followed a report by Prentiss concerning a cardiac arrest in a patient receiving caudal anesthesia with etidocaine. In that case, cardiovascular collapse followed the rapid onset of convulsions after possible intravascular (iv) injection of etidocaine. To Albrig...

Thirty years on the "broad spectrum revolution" and paleolithic demography.

A ll Paleolithic hominids lived by hunting and collecting wild foods, an aspect of existence that began to disappear only with the emergence of the farming and herding societies of the Neolithic #10,000 years ago (10 KYA). What are the roots of this remarkable economic transformation? The answer lies in equally revolutionary changes that took place within certain stone age cultures several mill...

Health records and privacy: what would Hippocrates say?

Algebraic Tori — Thirty Years After

This article is an expanded version of my talk given at the International Conference “Algebra and Number Theory” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V. E. Voskresenskĭı, which was held at the Samara State University in May 2007. The goal is to give an overview of results of V. E. Voskresenskĭı on arithmetic and birational properties of algebraic tori which culminated in his monograph [Vo77] pu...