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The BOSS system for on-line submission and assessment of computing assignments
Practical computing courses which involve significant amounts of programming continue to suffer from increasing student numbers. This makes their delivery and management more difficult to achieve effectively with the available resources. One solution to this problem is to develop methods for automating the submission and testing of student programs to support the marking effort and to enable the division of marking tasks among several individuals while ensuring consistency and rigour throughout. We have developed such methods in our system, called BOSS, and have successfully deployed different versions of it on several courses over a number of years. Here, we describe the original system and its recent enhancements, and discuss the benefits it has provided us with, both in terms of administration and in improving the learning process
The Mass Spectrum of a Static Adjoint Particle
The bound states of fermions in the adjoint representation are of interest in
supersymmetric models. We investigate the energy spectrum of the simplest --
the gluino-gluon bound states -- on several lattices in the quenched
approximation. We use a static approximation for the gluino propagator. We find
continuum limits of the splitting between the few lowest states, with the
energy difference between the two lowest states of MeV.Comment: 3 pages, Latex, to appear Lattice 97 proceding
The Relational Blockworld Interpretation of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics
We introduce a new interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics (QM) called Relational Blockworld (RBW). We motivate the interpretation by outlining two results due to Kaiser, Bohr, Ulfeck, Mottelson, and Anandan, independently. First, the canonical commutation relations for position and momentum can be obtained from boost and translation operators,respectively, in a spacetime where the relativity of simultaneity holds. Second, the QM density operator can be obtained from the spacetime symmetry group of the experimental configuration exclusively. We show how QM, obtained from relativistic quantum field theory per RBW, explains the twin-slit experiment and conclude by resolving the standard conceptual problems of QM, i.e., the measurement problem, entanglement and non-locality
Law Professor, Alumna Lead City Year Board
Professor Andy Horwitz and Stephanie Federico ‘03 co-chair advisory board of City Year Providence, aiming to dramatically cut dropout rates
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