6,072 research outputs found
Curtis Colvin, Utah Uranium Oral History Project
No full textTranscript (35 pages) of an interview by Gary Shumway with Curtis Colvin, on August 11, 1970. From tape number 79 in the Uranium History SeriesColvin, a chemist, was interviewed by Gary Shumway in Provo, Utah. Subjects: personal background, experiences at Hanford atomic plant. solvent extraction process, people at Hanford, changes in companies, experiences with the federal government, breeder reactors (35 pages)
New structures in sound series, November 5, 1977
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Oakland Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, November 5, 1977, program no. 36 of the Department of Music's 1977-1978 season.1st work: Trent Kynaston and Steve Cutcher, soprano saxophones ; Gary McCurry, alto saxophone ; Tim Lenz, tenor saxophone ; Jim Lazar, baritone saxophone. 2nd work: C. Curtis-Smith, toy piano. 3rd work: Robert Whaley, tuba. 4th work: Trent Kynaston, alto saxophone ; C. Curtis-Smith, piano. 6th work: The Western Brass Quintet (Donald Bullock, Stephen Jones, trumpets ; Connie Klausmeier, horn ; Russell Brown, trombone ; Robert Whaley, tuba).Information from performance program.Reel 1: Incanto (1976) / Laszlo Sary -- Suite for toy piano (1948) / John Cage -- Breathings [i.e. Breath and sounds]: for tuba and tape (1970) / Beatrice Witkin -- Unisonics (1976) / C. Curtis-SmithReel 2: Fluxus I for tape (1977) / Ramon Zupko -- Landscapes for brass quintet (1977) / Karel Husa
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Object-oriented design for knowledge acquisition in expert systems
No full textThe development of expert systems in welding is of great technical and economic significance. The welding advisory system for process selection (WASPS) was designed as a PC-based expert system for advising on weld construction in steel pipework. The system domain was selected to cover that required by the central electricity generating board (CEGB). The system may be used to aid in the selection of a welding process for the welding of pipework and then to optimise the parameters of that process. Apart from knowledge about the processes themselves, other factors have been taken into consideration such as equipment cost and availability, depreciation, running costs, location, reject rate and quality level. This PC-based advisory system was designed for use by an informed but not necessarily expert welding engineer, with an emphasis on the friendliness of the interface and flexibility of the system. The problems associated with knowledge acquisition are extremely significant and mechanisms to ease this task are essential. Attractive elements of WASPS were incorporated into an object-oriented design which produced BALDRICK. The emphasis on encapsulation of data and relevant procedures improved not only the efficiency of the system but also its overall design, meaning that future modifications or extensions can be incorporated with far greater ease. By exploiting the benefits of the object-oriented structure, BALDRICK provides intelligent assistance in creating and maintaining a knowledge base. The key element of the object-oriented design, which makes this possible, is the distributed inference obtained through encapsulation of knowledge base concepts. This produces a type of active knowledge which reduces redundant computation in inference and provides an elegant truth maintenance system. The active knowledge allows a knowledge level view of the knowledge base to be given with a separation of content and process knowledge.</p
Twitter, King Lear, and the Freedom of Speech, by John Curtis, and Judicial Allusion as Ornament: A Response to John Curtis’s, ‘Twitter, King Lear, and the Freedom of Speech’ by Professor Gary Watt
No full textOn 27 July 2012, in his judgment following ‘The Twitter Joke Trial’, the Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales quoted from King Lear (Folio). The trial was the first time a British Court had considered the use of Twitter in the context of a bomb hoax. The judgment was hailed as ‘a victory for common sense’, reversing decisions of two lower courts. It now provides authority against similar prosecutions. This paper argues that the use of a four-hundred-year-old Shakespearean text in negotiating modern legal principles is of considerable cultural significance – both through using the familiar to respond to the new – and by invoking Shakespeare’s voice within the powerful social mechanism of the law courts. It also considers the advantages and disadvantages of literary allusions within legal proceedings, contrasting these two widely reported judgments.This piece is adapted from a transcript of: King Lear, Twitter and the Da Vinci Code given as part of the Sidelights on Shakespeare lecture series at University of Warwick on 29 November 2013.Professor Gary Watt provides a response to Curtis\u27s critical reflection, considering judicial allusion as logic or ornament. Image: Cordelia in the Court of King Lear, Sir John Gilbert (1873
Author Gary Gildner reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner reads "Sleepy time gal," "Pavol Hudak, the poet, is talking," and "Genealogy" then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Dress, law and naked truth : a cultural study of fashion and form
No full textWhy are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life
Letter from Gary Okihiro, professor, Department of Asian American Studies at Cornell University to Michi Weglyn
No full textA letter from Asian American studies professor Gary Okihiro to Michi Weglyn apologizing for a critical review he wrote of her book "Years of Infamy" in 1977.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Observers and Assistants: A Proposal for Modular Aspect-Oriented Reasoning
No full textIn general, aspect-oriented programs require a whole-program analysis to understand the semantics of a single method invocation. This property makes reasoning difficult, impeding maintenance efforts, contrary to a stated goal of aspect-oriented programming. We propose some simple modifications to AspectJ that permit modular reasoning. This eliminates the need for whole-program analysis and makes code easier to understand and maintain.Copyright © Curtis Clifton and Gary T. Leavens, 2002. All rights reserved.</p
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