Zen and the Art of Multiple Comparisons

The Zen Art of Teaching

Weblogs are one of the most discussed trends in business and education alike. From all these comments and publications it is clear that weblogs will have a bright future as a personal web publishing tool, but will they also invade the education and business areas? And more important: will their widespread use mean just another tool or a radical change? – The line of argument in this paper is tw...

Zen and the art of formalization

N. G. de Bruijn, now professor emeritus of the Eindhoven University of Technology, was a pioneer in the field of interactive theorem proving. From 1967 to the end of the 1970’s, his work on the Automath system introduced the architecture that is common to most of today’s proof assistants, and much of the basic technology. But de Bruijn was a mathematician first and foremost, as evidenced by the...

Zen and the art of clinical judgment.

A student once told me that he preferred to work with another instructor because I took too long to make clinical decisions. When 1 asked him why, he gave me several examples of situations in which I had deliberated upon too long for his liking. None of these was simple in my opinion, nor did I agree with the other instructor's solutions. My dismay and introspection about this student's revelat...

Zen and the Art of Network Research

It seems to be increasingly clear that, in regard to the design of global data networks, an era of networking is coming to an end. Suddenly, what was once a playground for researchers now supports both culture and commerce, and has increasingly become a part of our daily lives. The present-day Internet quite clearly serves a basic infrastructure role, alongside other communication and transport...

Zen and the art of formalisation