Thoughts of the New Year

new semigroup compactifications via the enveloping semigroups of associated flows

this thesis deals with the construction of some function algebras whose corresponding semigroup compactification are universal with respect to some properies of their enveloping semigroups. the special properties are of beigan a left zero, a left simple, a group, an inflation of the right zero, and an inflation of the rectangular band.

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Finding new facts; thinking new thoughts.

The idea of the child as an active learner is one of Piaget's enduring legacies. In this chapter, I discuss the ways in which contemporary computational models of learning do, and do not, address learning as an active, child-driven process. In Part 1, I discuss the problem of search and exploration. In Part 2, I discuss the (harder and more interesting) problem of hypothesis generation. I concl...

Thoughts on a New Namespace

This working paper describes a possible design for a new Internet namespace. A primary goal of creating this new namespace is to use the new namespace as a non-topological network-layer identifier for hosts. By doing so, a number of current routing issues, particularly those related to mobile hosts and to multi-homed campuses become simpler to solve. As this is a working paper, there is also di...

Some thoughts provoked by a year in the United States.