Welding, my thirty five years friend

Fluency in reading—Thirty-five years later

Paul Nation’s talents and interests extend well beyond vocabulary to include research on speaking, writing, classroom learning and teaching, reading, and fluency. In keeping with Nation’s interests in fluency, extensive reading, and reading instruction, I outline current perspectives on reading fluency and its role as a key component of reading comprehension abilities. This discussion will incl...

Password Security-- Thirty-Five Years Later

User passwords were first introduced to allow time sharing on large mainframes. Mainframes at the time were large systems within a controlled environment. Passwords were stored in plain text file with no perceived need to secure user passwords. The first documented password breach occurred when a user wanted to gain additional time on a mainframe than the allotted four hours limit. The user sim...

Thirty Five Years of Computer Cartograms

The notion of a cartogram is reviewed. Then, based on a presentation from the 1960’s, a direct and simple introduction is given to the design of a computer algorithm for the construction of contiguous value-by-area cartograms. As an example a table of latitude/longitude to rectangular plane coordinates is included for a cartogram of the United States, along with Tissot’s measures for this map p...

My Thirty-five Year View of Organ Transplantation

My “friend on Facebook” and my “Facebook friend”

Donath et al. (2004) discuss social networking display as a whole, and its characteristic functions, affordances and constraints when existing in online environment. Focusing on the connections displayed as an integrated part of individual’s self-descriptive profiles, the authors analyze the psychology of establishing and managing one’s social networks within the framework of signaling theory. ...