Tho Tomb of St. Hugh at Lincoln

Hugh of St

Abbey of St. Victor in Paris. Probably a student of William of Champeaux, he became a leading master in the abbey's school. His writings encompass a wide range of commentaries, treatises, and mystical works. The two most important are De sacramentis christianae fidei, the first theological summa, and Didascalicon, which proposed an influential framework for scientific inquiry and biblical inter...

The Development of Superresolution at Lincoln Laboratory

T   focuses on a variety of superresolution-oriented adaptive-array processing efforts at Lincoln Laboratory. For more than two decades, the Laboratory has been responsible for applications in which the achievement of the performance benefits of superresolution was essential for truly effective system operation. During this period, adaptive-array processing has made the transitio...

From Hugh to Hugh, or Saint to Saint: Enshrining Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations in the Space and Texts of Lincoln and Its Cathedral

Shadow imaging efforts at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The technique of shadow imaging allows one to take pictures of distant objects that are beyond the reach of the largest ground-based astronomical telescopes. The technique relies on the fact that stars are nearly ideal point sources and are conveniently located behind man-made deep space objects, such as satellites. As a space object passes in front of a star (an “occultation event”), the objec...

Burglarizing Nietzsche’s Tomb

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...