Forbidding Science: Some Beginning Reflections

Clouds and Clocks Some Historical Thoughts About Time in Computer - assisted Music Composition

All human activities take place over time (Mainzer), each with its own temporality which itself evolves over time (Hartog). This paper is part of a historical reflection (Leduc) on the way that temporality is articulated in music and in computer technology, two domains whose temporal logics are initially very different (Kramer, Berry, Pressing) More specifically, this paper focuses on my specia...

Forbidding Sets and Normal Forms for Language Forbidding-Enforcing Systems

This paper investigates ways to reduce redundancy in forbidding sets for language forbidding-enforcing systems. A language forbidding set disallows combinations of subwords in a word, while permitting the presence of some parts of these combinations. Since a forbidding set is a potentially infinite set of finite sets of words, finding normal forms for forbidding sets is interesting from a combi...

A Note on the Generative Power of Some Simple Variants of Context-Free Grammars Regulated by Context Conditions

This paper answers three open questions concerning the generative power of some simple variants of context-free grammars regulated by context conditions. Specifically, it discusses the generative power of so-called contextfree semi-conditional grammars (which are random context grammars where permitting and forbidding sets are replaced with permitting and forbidding strings) where permitting an...

Some Reflections on Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection

SLAC - PUB - 7049 March 1996 Reflections on the Discovery of the Tau Lepton ’

My first thoughts in writing this lecture are about the young women and young men who are beginning their lives in science: students and those beginning scientific research. I have been in experimental scientific research for 45 years; I have done some good experiments of which the best was the discovery of the tau leptonj I have followed research directions that turned out to be uninteresting ...