Review of Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology

An open invitation to the cancer immunology community.

1Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology, and Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA 2MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 3Department of Oncology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 4...

Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation to Join the Pigou Club

Many economists favor higher taxes on energy-related products such as gasoline, while the general public is more skeptical. This essay, based on a talk given at the March 2008 meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, discusses various aspects of this policy debate. It focuses, in particular, on the use of these taxes to correct for various externalities — an idea advocated long ago by Briti...

Integers In C: An Open Invitation To Security Attacks?

We performed an empirical study to explore how closely well-known, open source C programs follow the safe C standards for integer behavior, with the goal of understanding how difficult it is to migrate legacy code to these stricter standards. We performed an automated analysis on fifty-two releases of seven C programs (6 million lines of preprocessed C code), as well as releases of Busybox and ...

An Invitation to Play

Parity games and their subclasses and variants pop up in various contexts: μ-calculus, tree automata, program verification [3, 1, 8]. Such games provide only binary information indicating the winning player. However, in classical games theory [12] the emphasis is rather on how much we win or lose. Can we incorporate the information about the profits and losses into parity games?

An Invitation to Topology