Teaching theory of computation at the junior level

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. S. Chua ◽  
C. N. Winton
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Computation

scholarly journals Caricature Generator: The Dynamic Exaggeration of Faces by Computer

Leonardo ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Theory Of Computation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
Interactive Computer Graphics ◽  
Visualization Process ◽  
The Face

The author has researched and developed a theory of computation for caricature and has implemented this theory as an interactive computer graphics program. The Caricature Generator program is used to create caricatures by amplifying the differences between the face to be caricatured and a comparison face. This continuous, parallel amplification of facial features on the computer screen simulates the visualization process in the imagination of the caricaturist. The result is a recognizable, animated caricature, generated by computer and mediated by an individual who may or may not have facility for drawing, but who, like most human beings, is expert at visualizing and recognizing faces.

scholarly journals Linguistics Then and Now: Some Personal Reflections

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Online Publication ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Theory Of Computation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Explanatory Depth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Reflections

By mid-twentieth century, a working consensus had been reached in the linguistics community, based on the great achievements of preceding years. Synchronic linguistics had been established as a science, a “taxonomic” science, with sophisticated procedures of analysis of data. Taxonomic science has limits. It does not ask “why?” The time was ripe to seek explanatory theories, using insights provided by the theory of computation and studies of explanatory depth. That effort became the generative enterprise within the biolinguistics framework. Tensions quickly arose: The elements of explanatory theories (generative grammars) were far beyond the reach of taxonomic procedures. The structuralist principle that language is a matter of training and habit, extended by analogy, was unsustainable. More generally, the mood of “virtually everything is known” became “almost nothing is understood,” a familiar phenomenon in the history of science, opening a new and exciting era for a flourishing discipline. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 7 is January 14, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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