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Probably should be "Rebuilt the CERN Browser"

The Silversmith browser went into service in 1986. It worked with SCI documents under security controls. The user could only access the sections of the document permitted by heir clearance. It includeded in-line images that linked to descriptions providing access to data in a prescribed linked bounding box. The Security mechanism could be configured to resemble the security procedures of WWMCCS (Now SIPRNet)(WorldWide Military Command & Control System), Later renamed WIS (WWMCCS Information System).

A modified version providing semantic sezrches was made available to the U.S.Army Material Command in 1988. In 2007 an ACM in Boston a paper described another variant that provided searches using creative strings.

It's all in the language. What is a ring? It is clearly a 2D geometry as there are just heads and tails, and no fan-in or fan-out. Adding thise mechanisms would lead to neurons which could start doing AI. GAWD FORBID!

This architecture appears to overlap with the, then, Bell Labs LambdaXtreme telephone switch. It was sold to Alcatel as it appears to be an optimum design for a swich that covers the E.U. Switching was likely in the control plane, and perhaps an optical fabric was used for administrative changes in both the control and dats pkane.

The scope of a domain is defined by its bounds. Expressed mathematically the bounds can be expressed using any variable type that can enclose an area or a field of elements or sets. The range of the bounds can extend to infinity. An abstract unspecifued domain may have no associated elements, sets or operators.

Norway has done work in this area that uses computers. Their system recognizes fish and parasites. As the fish pass through the systdm a laser zaps the parasites and antibiotics are not needed.

Some Latin countries practice burning of certain home contents once a year. This "Noche de Diablos" (Night of the Devil) where straw and fabrics are burned help rid the community of pests, but is troublesome for cities. Guatemala's government asks people not to burn things in the street as it stresses the asphalt. But there are small bonfires all across the city on December 6th. And used toilet papers are regularly burned on the pavement once a week. Such is life in an agrarian culgure.

Mushrooms are very forgiving of spores from other mushrooms and easily include them into their structures. So much so that they are considered promiscuous. No book will help you with this in the emergency room. Why take a chance? Go to the gricery store and have a comfortable dinner. And, please keep this in mind: the President of the Boston mycology club died of mushroom poisoning, and he was surounded by "mushroom experts".

The discussions among team members was that once the U.S. had reliable predictions of crop yields then the State Dept could respond in the grain markets. Thee were grain reserves that were available that could be used to flood the global markets resulting in lower grain prices and lower revenues for Russia. The undersanding was that "Grain is Gold", and it appears now that that is still true.

Yes, I worked on it in 1972 for Earth Resiurces Technology Satellite, ERTS, developing an image orocessing library to correct for satellite angles, Sun position and cloud cover. I bellieve that was for NRO/CIA as it was used for grain yields during the Cold War. It read multiple color bands plus IR and we could recognize corn and wheat blight. This allowed it to be used for crop yield predictions, so we knew Russian yields before they did. It was a bunch of linear array processing functions. That satellite is now called IntelSat, likely a KeyHole 10/11.

I also collect these constructs. It's an obscure science; one with a founder; C. Wright Mills. I'll honor his work by using his term: "Intellectual Craftsmanship". This is covered in his book, "The Sociological Imagination." It appears as the appendix of the book, and a website can be found at the site below. You will also find in Google results that there are multiple courses of this name in sociological studies. http://www.sociological-imagination.org/

This was featured in an issue of Harvard Negotiation Law Review a while back. It states that (paraphrasing) that "If a party is concerned that they will suffer due to arbitration, then it can fail to pay the arbitrator. Tben the arbitrartor will report to the judge that the arbitration failed, and the judge will declare a mustrial." Note that the judge is not privy to the arbitration. Arbitration is agreed to by the parties, and then the judge orders ths parties into arbitration. IANAL

Years ago people started 3DPrinting with hot glue guns on a square-cube frame. Don wrote it up as a "Santa Claus Machine" because it could deliver whatever you asked for. That caught my attention and I'm sure there were others that picked up on it. I looked at his column as little fires that kept my imagination going. He was a tremendous help to my career.

No, Massachusetts does not have a right to repair law. If you read the details the law divides "repair" between repair by businesses and repair by consumers. Along with the divide there are fiscal differences that disadvantage consumers. The result is that we now have a "Showcase Law" that pretends to serve the public, but it does not.

1986 Totalizer display system betweem Kentucky Utilities and Tenn. Valley Auth. ran for 15 years with no failures or reboots on an Imsai Intel 8080. Not complex but included an error correcting protocol.

Not really. The Duamond Age" is referenced as a template, but it is not required reading.The main components of the course are 1) writing a Ractive, 2) designing a Paper Theater for the Ractive, and 3) designing the set for the Paper Theater. The object is to continue the existing workflow for media with apropriate extensions for the Metaverse. The work is done in teams of 3 people with continuous reviews by team members. An underlying goal is to teach a collaborative media design process. Our view is that collaboration is the main leverage component of the Metaverse.

An ePrimer has a few components: the book itself, a Ractor mentor, a curriculum that includes Ractor paid milestohes, and scientufic metaphor stories that are the rubric and scaffolding. It might also include the VR or AR components that supply the immersive context. I've taught this in a master's level Metaverse course at a NY university.

This is an alternate statement of the slime-mold process. Slime-mold uses First Order Logic and pheromone decay, while the Djikstra algorithm has the advantage of being more readily extensible.