A PIECE OF MY MIND. A Piece of My Mind--Actually.

A piece of my mind. Copy-and-paste.

Optimal Control

The name of Stanissaw ojasiewicz has been associated in my mind with mathematical research since early on in my career, because it was through his work that I experienced for the rst time in my life the thrill of studying in depth a major piece of new mathematics and following the thoughts of a creative mind. This happened thirty years ago, in 1966, when I reached the last semester of my underg...

Listening to the Mind Listening

The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

For Anticommunication

Ladies and Gentlemen, Seven years ago I saw Cincinnati for the first time. I had come here to listen to the first public performance of my third string quartet by the LaSalle Quartet, an ensemble justly considered to be one of the best of its kind in the world today by most composers alive. For me this was a festival, and it is understandable that I was in high spirits. Two days before the conc...

One Person ’ s SWOT Analysis of Our Society

This is my pentultimate piece for the “President’s Message” section of the Interchange. As such, I thought it was appropriate to provide a “one person’s analysis” of where we are as a Society and what may lie ahead. I have chosen to present my thoughts in the format of a SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-OpportunitiesThreats) analysis of the ASCCA and the landscape we reside within. The SWOT may produ...