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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 2011
Adequate encodings are a powerful programming tool, which eliminate whole classes of program bugs: they ensure that a program cannot generate ill-formed data, because such data is not part of the representation; and they also ensure that a program is well-defined, meaning that it cannot have different behaviors on different representations of the same ...
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Adequate encodings are a powerful programming tool, which eliminate whole classes of program bugs: they ensure that a program cannot generate ill-formed data, because such data is not part of the representation; and they also ensure that a program is well-defined, meaning that it cannot have different behaviors on different representations of the same ...
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Rethinking the Hobbits of Indonesia
Scientific American, 2009The article discusses the analyses of the fossil remains of a miniature human species named Homo floresiensis, which scientists have nicknamed the hobbit. A brief overview of the discovery of the H. floresiensis speciman, known as LB1, while excavating the cave Liang Bua on Flores Island, Indonesia, is presented.
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On hobbits and the growth of APL
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1971When J. R. R. Tolkien was in the process of writing The Lord of the Rings , the unfolding of the take was apparently as much a process of discovery as of definition or creation. That is, as each part of the tale unfolded, it has to "fit" with the rest of what was known and felt about Middle Earth and its inhabitants.
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2021
Abstract This chapter takes as its focus the collapsing of fantastic medievalism and palaeontology in the narratives surrounding the discovery of homo floresiensis, the petite hominin species which has been called ‘the hobbit’ since it was uncovered in a cave on the island of Flores in 2003.
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Abstract This chapter takes as its focus the collapsing of fantastic medievalism and palaeontology in the narratives surrounding the discovery of homo floresiensis, the petite hominin species which has been called ‘the hobbit’ since it was uncovered in a cave on the island of Flores in 2003.
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Primary Teacher Update, 2013
Hobbits are topical at the moment, thanks to the film of Tolkein's famous book. Crispin Andrews explains how they could inspire lessons exploring our pre-historic ancestors.
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Hobbits are topical at the moment, thanks to the film of Tolkein's famous book. Crispin Andrews explains how they could inspire lessons exploring our pre-historic ancestors.
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Folklore, 2015
The Riddles of the Hobbit is the latest work from Adam Roberts, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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The Riddles of the Hobbit is the latest work from Adam Roberts, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Feudal societies and Hobbit law: The story of ‘The Hobbitamendment’
Small Enterprise Research, 2015The film industry has traditionally relied on freelancers and self-employed artists in many of the roles needed in production and post-production. The industry relies on project-based labour whereby teams of creative artists are assembled and interact for the duration of a venture and are then disbanded at the end of the production (Rowlands & Handy ...
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