The tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the hard core drinking driver

The tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the hard core drinking driver.

In recent years, the alcohol industry and certain traYc safety organizations have tried to draw a sharp distinction between so-called “social drinkers” and “hard core drinking drivers”. We are led to believe that great progress has been made among social drinkers over the last 20 years, and that this extremely large group invariably drinks “moderately” or “responsibly”. In contrast, little prog...

How to solve the Santa Claus problem

John Trono published a new exercise in concurrent programming—the Santa Claus problem—and provided a solution based on semaphores [12]. His solution is incorrect because it assumes that a process released from waiting on a semaphore will necessarily be scheduled for execution. We give a simple solution in Ada 95 using higher order synchronization primitives: protected objects and rendezvous. We...

The occupational health of Santa Claus

Previous publications in the field of Santa studies have not focused on health and safety issues arising from Santa's workplace activities. However, it should be acknowledged that unique occupational hazards exist for Santa Claus. Major occupational health issues affecting Santa are discussed, along with suggestions for future research directions.

Santa Claus - with Mobile Reindeer and Elves

Mobile processes, along with mobile channels, enable process networks to be dynamic: they may change their size (number of processes, channels, barriers) and shape (connection topology) as they run – much like living organisms. One of the benefits is that all connections do not have to be established statically, in advance of when they are needed and open to abuse. In classical occam, care had ...

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".