We present a general-purpose code transformation system, the POET system, for the purpose of automatic code generation from high-level behavior specifications of object-oriented abstractions to low-level efficient implementations in C++ and Java. In particular, we have developed an extended finite-state-machine-based language, iFSM, which models the behavior logic together with implementation d...

We evaluate the security of the recently proposed authenticated encryption scheme POET with regard to weak keys when its universal hash functions are instantiated with finite field multiplications. We give explicit constructions for weak key classes not covered by POET’s weak key testing strategy, and demonstrate how to leverage them to obtain universal forgeries.

Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), Dutch writer and poet, son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was 6 years old he was struck by an accident to a foot, causing inflammation of the periosteum. Medical errors caused him to stay inside, shut off from the outside world and his peers. He devoted his childhood and youth to study, drawing and writing. He became a historian, linguist, poet and lawyer. Sou...

Parvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge English language and education at American school for girls as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to appreciation modern ideas, including women’s rights. Unlike some contemporaries early twentieth century who tried revolutio...

This article examines the work of the Situationists and their leading member, Guy Debord, as it relates to theatre history and the history of the manifesto. The Situationists privileged the writing of manifestos over the production of art works in order to avoid the fate of the historical avant-garde, whose provocative art had been co-opted by the cultural establishment. Despite this pro-manife...