of these methods, let me say a word on what ought to be done by clinical as distinguished from so-called systematic teaching. Dr Edward Hamilton, late President of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, Ireland, in a recent address on education {Brit. Med. Jour., 16th Feb. 1884), said that " the entire system of lectures demands sweeping and thorough reformation." He thinks that most ex cathedra teachi...

In his paper [9], Stadler develops techniques for improving the security of existing secret sharing protocols by allowing to check whether the secret shares given out by the dealer are valid. In particular, the secret sharing is executed over abelian groups. In this paper we develop similar methods over non-abelian groups.

We implement several different methods for generating jokes in English. The common theme is to intentionally produce poor utterances by breaking Grice’s maxims of conversation. The generated jokes are evaluated and compared to human made jokes. They are in general quite weak jokes, though there are a few high scoring jokes and many jokes that score higher than the most boring human joke.