The Tilde naming system identifres files in a distributed computing system in a novel way, providing a consistent mechanism for referencing both local and remote files that is independent of the details of the underlying computing environment. The Tilde naming system achieves this independence by providing each user with control of a private name evaluation environment. In contrast, several con...

A key question in early word learning is how children cope with the uncertainty in natural naming events. One potential mechanism for uncertainty reduction is cross-situational word learning – tracking word/object co-occurrence statistics across naming events. But empirical and computational analyses of cross-situational learning have made strong assumptions about the nature of naming event amb...