The Farm Bureau through three Decades

Three Decades of Multiprocessors

During the last 25 years, the author has never reallv considered any alternative to the multiprocessor (mP) for general-purpose, cost-effective, nonminimal come -rs. This involvement with mPs at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Encore, Stardent, and Kendall Square Research (KSR) included 16 computers. Fourteen were built, including 7 for research or advance...

Ancient DNA: the first three decades

Pseudorandom Functions: Three Decades Later

In 1984, Goldreich, Goldwasser and Micali formalized the concept of pseudorandom functions and proposed a construction based on any length-doubling pseudorandom generator. Since then, pseudorandom functions have turned out to be an extremely influential abstraction, with applications ranging from message authentication to barriers in proving computational complexity lower bounds. In this tutori...

Services for Children: Three Programs of the Children’s Bureau

In thesepages the Bulletin presents selected data on the operation of the three State-administered services that receive Federal grants-in-aid through the Children’s Bureau. Designed to promote the physical and emotional well-being of the Nation’s children, these services complement the two programs under the Social Security Act-old-age and survivors insurance and aid to dependent children-that...

Three decades of institution theory

institution to a system of institutions, i.e. a diagram of institutions, more precisely. However the thinking along these lines has led to a rather different and much more efficient solution, namely that of the ‘flattening’ of the respective diagram of institutions to a single institution by extending a corresponding construction from category theory [49] to institutions. The resulting concept ...