Seven Curses

Approximate Dynamic Programming - Solving the Curses of Dimensionality

Weather • Robust design of emergency response networks. • Design of financial instruments to hedge against weather emergencies to protect individuals, companies and municipalities. • Design of sensor networks and communication systems to manage responses to major weather events. Disease • Models of disease propagation for response planning. • Management of medical personnel, equipment and vacci...

Selective Attention and Sensory Modality in Aging: Curses and Blessings

The notion that selective attention is compromised in older adults as a result of impaired inhibitory control is well established. Yet it is primarily based on empirical findings covering the visual modality. Auditory and especially, cross-modal selective attention are remarkably underexposed in the literature on aging. In the past 5 years, we have attempted to fill these voids by investigating...

High-Dimensional Data Analysis: The Curses and Blessings of Dimensionality

The coming century is surely the century of data. A combination of blind faith and serious purpose makes our society invest massively in the collection and processing of data of all kinds, on scales unimaginable until recently. Hyperspectral Imagery, Internet Portals, Financial tick-by-tick data, and DNA Microarrays are just a few of the betterknown sources, feeding data in torrential streams i...

A child's garden of curses: a gender, historical, and age-related evaluation of the taboo lexicon.

Child swearing is a largely unexplored topic among language researchers, although assumptions about what children know about taboo language form the basis for language standards in many settings. The purpose of the studies presented here is to provide descriptive data about the emergence of adultlike swearing in children; specifically, we aim to document what words children of different ages kn...

Music and Emotion: Seven Questions, Seven Answers