“Spenser’s Ireland,” December 1941: Scripting a Response

In memoriam: Esther Thelen, May 20, 1941-December 29, 2004.

Dr. Esther (Stillman) Thelen, a prominent figure in the field of developmental psychology, died on December 29, 2004 after a yearlong battle with recurrent cancer. Professionally, Esther was known for her forward thinking, her elegant and prolific writing, her unapologetic embrace of the complexity of human behavior and its ultimate theoretical grounding in everyday life, and her tireless mento...

Farm & Home Science Vol. 2 No. 4, December 1941

A Universal Scripting Framework

The “little languages” approach to systems programming is flawed: inefficient, fragile, error-prone, inexpressive, and difficult to compose. A better solution is to embed task-specific sublanguages within a powerful, syntactically extensible, universal language, such as Scheme. I demonstrate two such embeddings that have been implemented in scsh, a Scheme programming environment for Unix system...

Scripting a SIOC Explorer

Using the SIOC explorer The entry page shows a list of SIOC forums in the database. In terms of SIOC each collection of posts is called a “forum”. After selecting a forum, a list of post excerpts is shown in the main column. The user can expand a specific post in order to see the full content and comments. The user can then browse posts by author or by topic or by period of time across all foru...

Victor Jollos ( 1887 - 1941 )

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...