Since time immemorial, the fallibility of human memory has fascinated intellectuals in many fields of human endeavor. In his book The Seven Sins of Human Memory, a popular tome of scholarly work aimed at a general audience, Harvard University psychologist Daniel Schacter, a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, described the vagaries of memory, including, by turns, its pi...

The views expressed in this report are those of the individual participants and are not necessarily those of their respective organizations or the workshop sponsor. 1 The most constant difficulty in contriving the engine has arisen from the desire to reduce the time in which the calculations were executed to the shortest which is possible. Preface Several recent developments in high-end computi...

Daniel Shanks was born on January 17, 1917, in the city of Chicago, where he was raised and where in 1937 he received his B.S. in physics from the University of Chicago. In 1940 he worked as a physicist at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, moving the following year to the position of physicist at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory, a position he retained until 1950. In 1951 his post at the NOL changed ...

Overview. My work is in the area of commutative algebra, and is motivated by the connections between algebra and geometry. Commutative algebra is the study of commutative rings (e.g. polynomial rings over fields and their quotients) and modules over these rings, while algebraic geometry is the study of finitely many polynomial equations in finitely many unknowns. The set of all solutions to suc...

In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman attributes experientially-learned real-world coping skills to an " associative machine " acting on declarative memories of facts and events. While this attribution is probably correct for the unfamiliar types of situations that are the subject of his famous experiments conducted with Amos Tversky, we argue that experientially-learned real-wo...

FAST MULTIPLICATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS DANIEL J. BERNSTEIN Abstra t. This survey explains how some useful arithmeti operations an be sped up from quadrati time to essentially linear time. x2. Produ t: the FFT ase x13. Sum of fra tions x3. Produ t: extension x11. Matrix produ t x14. Fra tion from ontinued fra tion x4. Produ t: zero-padding and lo alization 55 k k k k k k k k k k k k k x12. Pro...

comparable to or slightly slower than allegro. John Holden notes in his musical essay of 1770 (Part I, Chapter 5) that vivace is “near the same, but not quite so brisk a movement as Allegro,” and Daniel Gottlob Türk observes in his clavier treatise of 1789 (Chapter 1, Part 5) that “compositions which are marked Vivace are usually played too fast.” Primary sources also reveal performance practic...