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Title: The Occasional Pamphlet

Publisher:  stuart.followit
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Some time around April 1994, I founded the Computation and Language E-Print Archive, the first preprint repository for a subfield of computer science. It was hosted on Paul Ginsparg’s arXiv platform, which at the time had been hosting only physics papers, built out from the original arXiv repository ...


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WWHD?
…personal role model… Image of Harry Lewis courtesy of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

This past Wednesday, April 19, was a celebration of computer scien...


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Upcoming in Tromsø
Northern lights over Tromsø

I'll be visiting Tromsø, Norway to attend the


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Whence function notation?

I begin – in continental style, unmotivated and, frankly, gratuitously – by defining Ackerman's function \(A\) over two integers:

\[ A(m, n) = \left\{ \begin{array}{l} n + 1 & \mbox{ if $m=0$ } \\ A(m-1, 1) & \mbox{ if ...


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The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. (NIV Proverbs 16:33)

…“Lux et Veritas”… Seal of Yale University image from

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