I n The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith famously argued that economic behavior was motivated by self-interest. But 17 years earlier in 1759, Smith had proposed a theory of human behavior that looks anything but selfinterested. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued that behavior was determined by the struggle between what Smith termed the “passions” and...

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The software industry and IT departments are facing extreme pressures to provide new applications that add value in today’s competitive environment. Whereas in the 1990s companies concentrated on implementing systems that reautomated functions to provide specific benefits, such as Y2K processing, today’s market demands new applications, and better integration within and between organizations. T...

Modulo formatting, this document constitutes a portion of my application for tenure (“section 5”). It details my research, teaching, and service efforts and goals. It is not exhaustive, and it reflects my view of my activities in late May 2013. 1 Research My research goal is to automate inference from natural language text, including: • algorithms that interpret text into abstract linguistic st...

An increasing number of connectionist models have been proposed to explain behavioral deficits in developmental disorders. These simulations motivate serious consideration of the theoretical implications of the claim that a developmental disorder fits within the parameter space of a particular computational model of normal development. The authors examine these issues in depth with respect to a...

The Hilbert-Smith Conjecture states that if G is a locally compact group which acts effectively on a connected manifold as a topological transformation group, then G is a Lie group. A rather straightforward proof of this conjecture is given. The motivation is work of Cernavskii (“Finite-to-one mappings of manifolds”, Trans. of Math. Sk. 65 (107), 1964.) His work is generalized to the orbit map ...