The Sacred Freespace

freespace, optoelectronic circuits

A multichannel optical oscilloscope for sampling broadband, freespace, optoelectronic circuits Rick L. Morrison, Steve G. Johnson*. Anthony L. Lentine, and Wayne H. Knox** AT&T Bell Laboratories, 2000N. Naperville Rd., Naperville, IL 60566 *Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 **AT&T Bell Laboratories, 101 Crawfords Corner Rd., Holmdel, NJ 07733 Fundamental Operation The a...

Sensor-based planning with the freespace assumption

A popular technique for getting to a goal location in unknown terrain is planning with the freespace assumption. The robot assumes that the terrain is clear unless it knows otherwise. It always plans a shortest path to the goal location and re-plans whenever it detects an obstacle that blocks its path or, more generally, when it detects that its current path is no longer optimal. It has been un...

Linguistics and the Sacred Language of the Qur'an

The Civil and the Sacred

The Sacred and the Secular

From our perspective, one clear trend is that OBM appears to be undergoing a period of “secularism” wherein some of its more “sacred” interventions are being questioned. Numbered among these “sacred” traditions are the regular use by OBM practitioners of feedback (Alvero, Bucklin, & Austin, 2001; Balcazar, Hopkins, & Suarez, 1986; Kluger & DiNisi, 1996), goal setting (Fellner & Sulzer-Azaroff, ...