Susan Minot – writer and artist

Susan Healy

than small ones, and that the method doesn’t work when the tube contains sawdust instead of water. Together with Bird and her student Lucy Cheke, Clayton transferred the Aesopian experiment to jays, demonstrating that the ability to use tools is a wider phenomenon in the corvid family, and not restricted to the Corvus genus. Confronting the jays with a range of variations of the experiment, the...

Improving Writer Identification Through Writer Selection

In this work we present a method for selecting instances for a writer identification system underpinned on the dissimilarity representation and a holistic representation based on texture. The proposed method is based on a genetic algorithm that surpasses the limitations imposed by large training sets by selecting writers instead of instances. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, we ha...

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.

The Artist of Computer

A short account of the contributions of Donald E. Knuth to the eld of computer science is given, with emphasis on his classical text The Art of Computer Programming. Also discussed are his development of the T E X typesetting system, the LR parser and attribute grammar.

The happy artist ?

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at...