First-Year Papers Cover Page and Editorial Board

Volume 17, 2012 – 2013 EDITORS First-Year Program Margaret Lindsey, Dean Erin Valentino, Research Education Librarian Dania Field, Program Assistant First-Year Mentors Andrew Bannon-Guasp ‘13 Elizabeth Preysner ‘13 Megan Baxter ‘13 Junius Ross-Martin ‘15 Emma Belloumo ‘13 Lillian Young ‘13 Elizabeth Bilfinger ’13 Abigail Whalen ‘15 Editing, Layout, and Publishing Dania Field Amy Harrell Elizabeth Preysner The First-Year Papers were established in 1996-1997 to recognize the excellent written work of the first-year students at Trinity College. Each year, submissions are drawn from First-Year Seminars and from courses associated with the Cities, Guided Studies, InterArts, and Interdisciplinary Science Programs. The First-Year Papers Volume 17, 2012 – 2013 Published by Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, September 201

The United Nations and the Human Rights Issue

This paper demonstrates a new class of bugs that is likely to occur in enterprise OpenFlow deployments. In particular, step-by-step, reactive establishment of paths can cause network-wide inconsistencies or performance- and space-related inefficiencies. The cause for this behavior is inconsistent packet processing: as the packets travel through the network they do not encounter consistent state at the OpenFlow controller. To mitigate this problem, we propose to use transactional semantics at the controller to achieve consistent packet processing. We detail the challenges in achieving this goal (including the inability to directly apply database techniques), as well as a potentially promising approach. In particular, we envision the use of multi-commit transactions that could provide the necessary serialization and isolation properties without excessively reducing network performance.QC 20140707</p

An Elementary Derivation of the Black-Hole Area-Entropy Relation in Any Dimension

A straightforward two-line derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking Area-Entropy relation for Black-Holes in {\bf any} dimension is shown based on Shannon's information theory and Clifford algebras required by the New Relativity Principle.Comment: Tex file, 3 page