You Will Hate Your Neighbor

What will you do with your life?

31 years ago, Donald Trump said in an interview: "I'll be 36 next year and I've done everything I can do. Sometimes I think it was a mistake to have raced through it all so fast. What's the next level up? The grass isn't always greener . . . I work, and I don't worry. How can you top that? . . . I protect myself as well as anybody can. I prepare for things but ultimately we all end up going . ....

Ten falsehoods your staff will tell you.

5. We have too much work for staff we have and we need to hire another. The dentist cannot afford to have even one extra staff person, nor can they afford the luxury of working inefficiently. This may be a good time for the doctor and staff to review the way they do things and streamline operations if need be. The number of staff needed is based on activity. Decrease activity and your staff wil...

Will your safety harness kill you?

What You Really Need To Know About Your Neighbor

A fundamental question in system design is to decide how much of the design of one component must be known in order to successfully design another component of the system. We study this question in the setting of reactive synthesis, where one constructs a system implementation from a specification given in temporal logic. In previous work, we have shown that the system can be constructed compos...

Be sure your sins will find you out!

I'm going to come clean. I have a confession to make. Yesterday, my wife and children and I went to a near by state park and took a walk on a walking trail through the woods. I had told the kids that we could very well see some deer. It didn't take long to realize that we wouldn't see any deer with the amount of noise four children can make. Though we didn't see any deer, we did see a snake. We...