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By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major
transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been
brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its
related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus,
robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the
human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and
dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and
communities, providing support in services, entertainment,
education, healthcare, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its
impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has
produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching
across diverse research areas and scientific disciplines, such as:
biomechanics, haptics, neuros- ences, virtual simulation,
animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return,
the challenges of the new emerging areas are proving an abundant
source of stimulation and insights for the field of robotics. It is
indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking
advances happen. The goal of the series of Springer Tracts in
Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the
latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their
significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider
dissemination of research developments will stimulate more
exchanges and collaborations among the research community and
contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field.
Few institutions have influenced U.S. history as profoundly as the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which will celebrate its 200th
anniversary on March 16, 2002. Born conceptually in Revolutionary
War times, the USMA developed alongside the fledgling U.S.
government, responded to presidential mandates, and produced dozens
of national leaders. Yet the Academy itself receives short shrift
from historians, who prefer to study its graduates. In To the
Point: The United States Military Academy, 1802-1903, George Pappas
offers the first fully developed chronicle of the USMA itself, seen
through the eyes of the cadets and graduates who attended the
Academy during its first hundred years. Colonel Pappas has drawn
from hundreds of primary sources not previously available to or
consulted by historians: military records, cadet and graduate
letters, newspaper clippings, private diaries, scrapbooks, and
photo albums. Taking special care to correct preexisting
misconceptions, cadet sinkoids, and inaccurately reported facts and
occurrences, he has interwoven the personal and the official to
create a magnificent historical work. The reader discovers a key
feature of the book in its very first section. Here, informed by
newly available documents, Pappas describes in unprecedented detail
the 27 years preceding the USMA's official beginnings in 1802. The
reader learns of the Academy's precursors, the daily life of the
early cadets--down to band practice and powdered hair--and the
roots of a curriculum. Explained are the pivotal roles of such
movers as Henry Burbeck, Jonathan Williams, and Henry Dearborn in
effecting the Congressional mandate for the USMA. Subsequent
sections, consistently displaying Colonel Pappas' tireless
research, pursue the USMA's controversial first years, the
selection and training of faculty members, development of the
Academy's scientific and engineering curriculum, cultivation of
administrators such as Alden Partridge and Sylvanus Thayer, and the
institution's sometimes stormy relationship with the federal
government. Moving through the USMA's first century, the book
considers internal difficulties, disciplinary measures, and cadet
recreation, integrating the USMA story with the Civil War and other
historical events. The reader meets many historical figures such as
George Washington, Jefferson Davis, Edgar Allan Poe, Davy Crockett,
and James Madison--not as focal points but as players in the
Academy's history. Pappas also marks the USMA's long-term impact,
identifying graduates who performed outstandingly in the War with
Mexico, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, as elected
officials, as founders of colleges, as builders of railroads,
canals, bridges, and roads across the United States. Throughout,
readers will find the author's engaging, literate prose as
captivating as the story he tells--a style that makes rich use of
vignettes, folklore, humor, and the words of ordinary people to
bring history to life. Historic maps and numerous photos, many
previously unpublished, enhance detailed descriptions of physical
settings.
The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession
offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public
discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by
Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These
cases, Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
(1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), collectively known as the
Marshall Trilogy, have formed the legal basis for the dispossession
of indigenous populations throughout the Commonwealth. The Trilogy
cases are usually approached as 'pure' legal judgments. This book
maintains, however, that it was the literary and public discourses
from the early sixteenth through to the early nineteenth centuries
that established a discursive tradition which, in part, transformed
the American Indians from owners to 'mere occupants' of their land.
Exploring the literary genesis of Marshall's judgments, George
Pappas draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Homi
Bhabha, to analyse how these formative U.S. Supreme Court rulings
blurred the distinction between literature and law.
The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession
offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public
discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by
Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These
cases, Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
(1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), collectively known as the
Marshall Trilogy, have formed the legal basis for the dispossession
of indigenous populations throughout the Commonwealth. The Trilogy
cases are usually approached as 'pure' legal judgments. This book
maintains, however, that it was the literary and public discourses
from the early sixteenth through to the early nineteenth centuries
that established a discursive tradition which, in part, transformed
the American Indians from owners to 'mere occupants' of their land.
Exploring the literary genesis of Marshall's judgments, George
Pappas draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Homi
Bhabha, to analyse how these formative U.S. Supreme Court rulings
blurred the distinction between literature and law.
This collection of essays on themes in the work of John Locke
(1632-1704), George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume
(1711-1776), provides a deepened understanding of major issues
raised in the Empiricist tradition. In exploring their shared
belief in the experiential nature of mental constructs, The
Empiricists illuminates the different methodologies of these great
Enlightenment philosophers and introduces students to important
metaphysical and epistemological issues including the theory of
ideas, personal identity, and skepticism. It will be especially
useful in courses devoted to the history of modern philosophy.
By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major
transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been
brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its
related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus,
robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the
human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and
dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and
communities, providing support in services, entertainment,
education, healthcare, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its
impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has
produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching
across diverse research areas and scientific disciplines, such as:
biomechanics, haptics, neuros- ences, virtual simulation,
animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return,
the challenges of the new emerging areas are proving an abundant
source of stimulation and insights for the field of robotics. It is
indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking
advances happen. The goal of the series of Springer Tracts in
Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the
latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their
significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider
dissemination of research developments will stimulate more
exchanges and collaborations among the research community and
contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field.
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control - 7th International Workshop, HSCC 2004, Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 25-27, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Rajeev Alur, George Pappas
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Hybrid
Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2004) held in Philadelphia,
USA, from March 25 to 27, 2004. The annual workshop on hybrid
systems attracts researchers from academia and industry interested
in modeling, analysis, and implemen- tion of dynamic and reactive
systems involving both discrete and continuous behaviors. The
previous workshops in the HSCC series were held in Berkeley,
USA(1998), Nijmegen, TheNetherlands(1999), Pittsburgh, USA(2000),
Rome, Italy (2001), Palo Alto, USA (2002), and Prague, Czech
Republic (2003). This year s HSCC was organized in cooperation with
ACM SIGBED (Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems) and was
technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society. The
program consisted of 4 invited talks and 43 regular papers selected
from 117 regular submissions. The program covered topics such as
tools for analysis and veri?cation, control and optimization,
modeling, and engineering applica- ons, as in past years, and
emerging directions in programming language support and
implementation. The program also contained one special session
focusing on the interplay between biomolecular networks, systems
biology, formal methods, andthecontrolofhybridsystem
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Tommy/singi Ellison - Power CD (2002) (CD)
Tommy/singi Ellison; Contributions by George Pappas; Produced by Rev. Gerald Thompson, Tommy Ellison, Dwight Gordon; Performed by …
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