a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...

Two n e w modes of real-t ime collision avoidance are presented wh.ich aid in the e.ffectiveness of remote tele-operation. S t i cky coll ision mode improves s y s t e m safety by disallowing contact wi th modelled obstacles. Slippery mode is used t o improve the eff iciency of -the process by reducing t h e required level of operator skill. B o t h modes execute an real-t ime and have been amp...

A short account of the contributions of Donald E. Knuth to the eld of computer science is given, with emphasis on his classical text The Art of Computer Programming. Also discussed are his development of the T E X typesetting system, the LR parser and attribute grammar.

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at...

Beginning in December 2007, UMLCAR is conducting a network-wide upgrade of the Automatic Real-Time Ionogram Scaler with True height (ARTIST), the ionogram autoscaling software developed for Digisondes. The new ARTIST Version 5 revamps classic, well-seasoned ARTIST 4 techniques for the modern computers and programming environments. It also implements new approaches developed to strengthen the AR...