I downloaded and analyzed six HIPAA privacy notice examples and 31 HIPAA privacy notices. Using several readability tools, I found that they were written at 2nd-4th year college reading levels -- instead of in plain language as required by federal HIPAA regulations. Patients will have a hard time understanding the notices because the writing styles use too many words per sentence, too many complicated sentences and too many complicated and uncommon words. A one-page "Summary Notice of HIPAA Privacy Practices" may help readers deal with the information overload created by the many elements required by HIPAA.
How readable are HIPAA Privacy Notices?
I downloaded and analyzed six HIPAA privacy notice examples and 31 HIPAA privacy notices using several software programs including Prose, WStyle 1.6, Grammatik 6.0, Key Grammar Checker, Reader 1.2 and Text Analyser. These programs calculated reading grade level, the Flesch Reading Ease Score, writing style, sentence and vocabulary complexity and word frequency and commonness.
Instead of being written in plain language as required by the HIPAA regulations, the 31 privacy notices average a 2nd-3rd year college (grade 14.5) reading level, rating them as "difficult" on the Flesch Reading Ease Score.
It is possible that some organizations evaluated the readability of their HIPAA privacy notices by relying on the Flesch-Kincaid readability formula in Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, Microsoft's version of the Flesch-Kincaid formula is flawed, scoring no higher than grade 12, regardless of the actual grade level! Average readers will find these notices hard to understand, especially the elderly and those whose primary language is not English.
Recent Census data shows that about 85% of adults have a high school degree. About 25% have one or more college degrees. Despite these levels of educational attainment, literacy research shows that many people read three-to-five grades lower than their highest level of educational attainment. Thus, it's not unusual for someone with a high school diploma to be reading at a 7th to 9th grade reading level. Because of that gap, literacy experts recommend that materials written for the general public be at about a junior high reading level.
In August, 2002, I analyzed HIPAA Privacy Notices examples from six health organizations because these organizations had developed sample HIPAA notices for their members. Although the federal government encouraged organizations to develop their own HIPAA notices, I believed that many would simply adapt their HIPAA notice from their professional organizations or from the many HIPAA privacy notice vendors. If hospitals and clinics simply used the examples provided by professional organizations, both the examples and individual patient notices should be very similar. In March, 2003, I analyzed 31 HIPAA Privacy Notices and compared them to the six sample notices. Based on eight features, both the examples and patient notices were almost identical.
Both sets of documents were written at "difficult" reading level, at about a 2nd - 4th year college reading level, with complicated sentences and vocabulary. About 80% of the words in the two sets of documents were among the most frequent 2,000 words in English, about 9% were in the next 2,000 - 5,000 frequent words, and about 12% were on neither list, which means that HIPAA notices tend to have large percentage of words that are uncommon to most people.
Across all age groups, people 65 and older have the lowest literacy scores, with an average educational attainment between 11th and 12th grade. Seventy year-old patients (born in 1933) with an average 11th-12th grade education completed their education about 1951. Table 2 shows the educational attainment of the population across the age span based on March 2000 US Census Data.
One plain language factor is the number of words per sentence. Research suggests that to be easily understood, documents should average about 15-20 words per sentence. When sentences get too long (over 40 words), readers may forget the beginning of the sentence by the time they get to the end. The 6 HIPAA examples averaged 26.2 words per sentence, the 31 HIPAA privacy notices averaged 24.2 words per sentence. Since 12% of the words were on neither list of the most common words, that means that each sentence contains about 3 uncommon words.
Reader 1.2 software calculated word "commonness," for which a normal score is 1,450. A lower score means that the notice has many common words, a higher score that the notice has many uncommon words. The average score for the 6 examples was 1,778 and 1,594 for the 31 notices--above average for both.
Grammatik 6.0 measures "sentence complexity" based on the number of words and clauses in a document--with a maximum "very complex" score of 100. The 6 examples averaged a sentence complexity score of 71, the 31 notices a 72.
Readability Plus software classifies sentences into eight categories, recommending that most sentences be classified as simple, normal and narrative, with very few sentences classified as difficult, pompous, or complicated. Unfortunately, over half the sentences in the six privacy notices were classified as difficult, pompous or complicated, and 19% were simple, normal, or narrative, as shown in Table 3.
Grammatik 6.0 measures "vocabulary complexity" based on the number of syllables in a document and a comparison to a word list of unusual or difficult words--with a maximum "very complex" score of 100. Both the 6 examples and 31 privacy notices averaged a vocabulary complexity score of 58.But what are common and uncommon words? Table 4, a "Word Frequency Analysis of 6 HIPAA Privacy Notices with all words that occurred four or more times in the six notices, is based on "The Educator's Word Frequency Guide" which calculated word frequency based on 17 million words from about 61,000 text samples from over 6,000 written materials used in American schools and colleges. If patients don't read very much, they probably will not come across many of these uncommon words that can be found at the bottom of this list. .
WStyle writing analysis program rated the 6 examples as "poor"; the 31 notices as "weak," with 2 notices being "satisfactory," 13 as "weak," and 16 as "poor."
What types of personal information does Provider collect?
When you enroll or renew with Provider, the consent provided on your enrollment application allows Provider and its business associates to collect, maintain, use and share your personal information to provide service to members, manage our business, or conduct related activities.
With whom does Provider share information? How many people will read this and think that they're members of the "Provider health plan?"
Plus, the notice includes a "Medical authorization letter" that's written at about a 3rd year college reading level. Neither the "Member Privacy Notice" nor the "Medical Authorization Letter" came with any type of introductory letter or explanation; indeed, there was no logo and no corporate letterhead on either document. One section should have been placed elsewhere in the Notice; additional grammatical errors suggest that the documents were not written or proofread very carefully. Or maybe they bought a generic HIPAA privacy notice and neglected to replace the generic "Provider" with the name of the health plan.
What rights do patients have if they don't understand their rights?
HIPAA privacy notices may be given to patients along with other written materials. For example, in Minnesota, patients are given a 10-page, 4,221 words "Minnesota Patient Bill of Rights" booklet that describes patient rights under Minnesota and federal law. However, this booklet is not well written, making it difficult (if not impossible) for most patients to understand. And will patients take the time to read three documents totaling 6,500 words describing their patient "rights?"
Re-writing such documents in plain English may be almost impossible. A patient representative at a Minneapolis hospital told me that the Minnesota Association of Patient Representatives tried to have the patient "Bill of Rights" written in more understandable language. Because that had to be done through the legislative process, they were told that patient representatives could not provide a more understandable document without also providing the original as written by the legislature. The Association could not get help to re-write it in a way that would assure accuracy--as determined by the legislature. Even if they could, that might mean giving patient an original version and a revised version. If both Minnesota and federal laws were re-written, would patients read all four documents? If HIPAA Notices were re-written, would patients read all six documents?
Legislators, policy makers, and writers believe that HIPAA Notices written in plain language will be easier to understand than if written in legal and bureaucratic language. But that may not be true. Plain English may help readers understand fairly short, non-technical documents, but the HIPAA privacy regulations are very complex. Communication problems may have less to do with plain language than with information overload. There are so many required elements in HIPAA that writing the Notice in plain language won't help comprehension much, since readers still have to understand all of the required elements. The amount of information may be more important than the grade level at which it's written. One way to increase understanding is to use a "layered" approach, which includes a one-page HIPAA summary and the longer HIPAA privacy notice. Here's an example of what a HIPAA Privacy Notice Summary might look like.
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
1 Work on this project was partially done under contract to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The author's views are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


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#GazaUnderAttack | UN official Pierre Krähenbühl calls for an investigation into strikes on UNRWA schools
MEMO | Monday, 18 August 2014 13:06 UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl stressed the necessity of conducting an investigation into the strikes on the UN schools in Gaza during Israel's assault on the enclave.During a press conference held in Gaza yesterday, Krähenbühl said that UNRWA strongly condemns the strikes on schools where civilians had sought refuge […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | @UN Report: 218,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israeli war on Gaza
[ PIC 17/08/2014 – 07:24 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their own and only homes due to the ongoing Israeli military offensive that has been rocking besieged Gaza for over a month, a UN report revealed on Saturday. According to a statement released on Saturday by the UN […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | UN official calls for end to Gaza siege
A Palestinian man and children are seen near the ruins of the Al Farouk Mosque in the city of Rafah, Gaza Strip, on July 7, 2014. PRESSTV | Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:14AM GMT A high-ranking humanitarian official has appealed for a new deal for the Gaza Strip to end the "collective punishment" of […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | Israel's warmonger Lieberman calls UNHRC 'council for terrorists'
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman PressTV | Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:49AM GMT Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has described the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as the "rights council for terrorists" over its plan to probe the Israeli regime's atrocities in Gaza. Lieberman made the offensive remarks on Wednesday after […]
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#GazaUnderAttack | Hamas: UNSC should demand an end to aggression
[ PIC 19/07/2014 – 08:15 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas Movement asked the UN Security Council to adopt an urgent decision to end the Israeli aggression on Gaza and to lift the oppression befalling the Palestinian people. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press release at dawn Saturday that the recalling of Ecuador's […]
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UN declares 2014 the 'Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People'
A United Nations (UN) car passes in front of new houses which are part of a project funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on November 21, 2013.(AFP Photo / Said Khatib) RT | November 26, 2013 23:28 The UN has […]
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VIDEO | Iran's president (@HassanRouhani) speech over Geneva agreement
What Netanyahu when he drew his Bomb September 27, 2012 by occpal | Last Update: Oct 16, 2012 Although the red marker was of impressive size, this was quite a "shitty" result US taxpayers get's in return for it's 30 Billion US taxdollars in "aid" to fund Israel's arsenal of (nuclear) weaponry and warfare. Aside […]
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Nov 9, 2013 by occpal And Yes! Media is buzzing again about the altruistic 'aid' of this world and contribution to health of kids by buzzing media reports about 20 million kids to get polio vaccine after Syria outbreak. (Source) Of course because Europe is at alleged risk. Not in Palestine though. On May 20, […]
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UN official calls for assistance to Palestinian refugees in Syria
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Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations ~ by Prof. James Petras
by James Petras | November 2nd, 2013 | Dissident Voice Pro-Israel Policy groups such as AIPAC work with unlimited funding to divert US policy in the region (Middle East). – Jack Straw, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party The United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran […]
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Gaza's Tunnel Economy ~ by @StephenLendman
by Stephen Lendman | Stephen Lendman Weblog | Oct 30, 2013 They're a vital lifeline. They're a potential death trap. They're a bonanza for profiteers. They symbolize Palestinians' will to survive. It shows their determination to do so against all odds. Decades of Israeli viciousness haven't deterred them. They're not about to quit now. Besieged […]
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UN human rights rapporteur says world court should question Israeli occupation
Israel is very critical of Falk for his courageous reports on its human rights violations against the Palestinians. Earlier this year, Israel's main ally and protector, the United States, questioned Falk's capabilities in the role of rapporteur. He defended himself by pointing out that he is only doing his job Middle East Monitor | Wednesday, […]
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Israel Avoids Human Rights Scrutiny ~ by @StephenLendman
"Settling" constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US' own military legislations' Law resources below this article Stephen Lendman | Stephen Lendman Weblog | Oct 27, 2013 Israel is one of the world's most egregious human rights abusers. Palestinians endure ruthless repression. So do Arab citizens. Jews supporting fundamental freedoms […]
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VIDEO | Secrets of Gaza resistance tunnel east of Khan Younis city to the occupied land
Oct 25, 2013 Incredible information about Hamas tunnel that was prepared for the abduction of Zionist soldiers to be exchanged with Palestinian prisoners. معلومات مذهلة عن نفق حماس الذي كان تم حفره لخطف جنود صهاينة ومبادلتهم بأسرى فلسطينيين Hamas has a Right to Dig Tunnels PNN | Published on Thursday, 17 October 2013 13:44 by […]
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Hamas: The UN, Feltman look at things with one eye
[ PIC 23/10/2013 – 05:40 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement strongly denounced Jeffrey Feltman, the deputy secretary-general of the UN, for considering the tunnel that was discovered lately east of Khan Younis district in Gaza a breach of the truce agreement. Its spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated in a press release on Wednesday that […]
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As of March 1, 2020, Pace University will not provide sponsorship for any new faculty/staff. For any current faculty/staff requiring sponsorship, Pace University will continue to support the costs that we are legally obligated to pay; we will require all other costs to be paid by the respective faculty/staff unless there is a written agreement stating otherwise. If you have any questions please contact Talent Acquisition at 914-923-2730, or email Talentac@pace.edu.
What is the difference between an H-1B Visa and Permanent Resident status?
Permanent Resident Status
H-1B Visa Status
Permanent Resident card holders are not limited to the amount of time they are allowed to legally remain in the United States. H1-B visas are temporary, non-immigrant visas that are typically issued for a maximum of six years in two three-year allotments.
A Permanent Resident card allows a person to work in any job or industry anywhere in the U.S. or its territories. H1-B visas are working visas and are limited specifically to the sponsoring employer. The visa holder cannot change jobs or move elsewhere without also changing their visa.
Permanent Resident card holders can come and go from the U.S. at will as long as their card has not expired and they have a valid passport. H1-B visa holders must have a valid H1 visa stamp placed in their passport from a U.S. consulate abroad, (not applicable for Canadians) and their traveling is limited to the dates specifically identified on the visa stamp. Some H1-B holders are only allowed a certain number of trips in and out of the U.S. during the period that the H1-B visa is valid.
Permanent Residents can apply for U.S. citizenship after 5 years, (or 3 years if married to a U.S. citizen) assuming they have no serious criminal convictions. H 1-B visa holders must first obtain their Permanent Resident Card and then can apply for U.S. citizenship after 5 years, (or 3 years if married to a U.S. citizen) assuming they have no serious criminal convictions.
Permanent Residents are generally given more leniency than an H1-B visa holder if they commit a crime in the U.S, depending on the severity of the crime. H1-B visa holders are under strict scrutiny and can have their visa revoked and be deported for any simple or lesser criminal matter such as a DUI.
Permanent Resident holders are generally given the same rights and privileges as U.S. citizens except for the right to vote. H1 visa holders are considered "guests" of the country and cannot take part in many of the rights and privileges given to permanent residents.
For which employees may I file for?
Priority Workers
Professionals with Advanced Degree or Persons with Exceptional Ability
Professional or Skilled Workers
Special Immigrants
What does the petition do for my employee?
Filing a petition shows that you have the intent to hire the employee upon the approval of the petition.
By sponsoring a candidate for an H1-B visa, the involved hiring department at Pace promises the USCIS that it will pay the employee the prevailing wage stated in its petition and, if Pace decides to let the employee go prior to the expiration of the H-1B petition time (a maximum of three years initially, with the possibility of an extension for another three years), then the hiring department at Pace is responsible for the employee's transportation back to his home country. If the employee continues to work for Pace and is not prematurely let go, Pace has no obligation to the employee that is any different from any other employee in the absence of an employment contract, except, to continue to pay the prevailing wage specified in the petition, or more.
By sponsoring a candidate for permanent resident status, the employer provides the employee with a "place in line" to immigrate to the United States and become eligible to do so permanently.
DOL – Department of Labor
LCA – Labor Condition Application
USCIS – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
The H-1B Visa Process
Application to the U.S. Department of Labor for the individual labor certification
To obtain the certification, Pace must provide the immigration attorney with the proposed salary and a job description. Once the attorney determines what the prevailing wage is from the DOL, they will submit the Labor Condition Application to the DOL electronically. The certification should be received in about 7 days.
Filing a petition with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to classify the beneficiary in the employment
The certified Labor Condition Application
The beneficiary will be asked to provide his immigration documentation, his academic credentials, and some basic information.
The petition is filed with the USCIS – It is currently taking the office about 3 months to approve H-1B petitions.
The Permanent Resident Process
Pace must file a request for a prevailing wage determination.
Provide the DOL with a job description, and the requirements for the position. After about 8 weeks the DOL will send back their determination.
Once Pace has the prevailing wage determination, the employer begins a recruitment process to demonstrate to the DOL that it could not locate a qualified U.S. worker for the position.
Filing the Labor Condition Application
If the case is approved without an audit, approval usually takes about 120-150 days. If the case is selected for an audit, then this part of the process may be delayed for a year or more.
Filing a petition with the USCIS
Once the LCA is approved, the I-140 Immigrant Worker petition can be filed with the USCIS.
This must be filed within 180 days of the LCA approval
It is currently taking the USCIS about 5 months to approve the petitions
Filing a Permanent Resident Application
Either simultaneously with the Immigrant Worker petition, or at a later time, depending upon quota availability, the applicant will file an application to adjust status to that of a lawful permanent resident with the USCIS. This application takes approximately 10 months to a year to complete.
The permanent resident case can be started before or after the H-1B is filed; it is entirely up to the employer. The employer does NOT have to wait until the alien is in his or her second year of H-1B status. It is best to be certain to file the permanent labor condition application at least one year before the alien's H-1B maxes out (six years) in order to be able to continue to extend his H-1B while awaiting the successful conclusion of the permanent resident process.
The Labor Condition Application must be paid by the hiring department. All other fees may be paid by the alien or by the hiring department, as you prefer.
*Per the University's Policy on Hiring Foreign Nationals, it is the involved hiring department, NOT Pace University as a whole that is expected to incur the cost of sponsoring H1-B Visa or Permanent Residents.


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Contractor, Maheen Riaz and Maheen Riaz Contractor. "Type- and Control-Flow Directed Defunctionalization." Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL '20), September 2–4, 2020, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Ed. Olaf Chitil. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. Web.
Guatto, Adrien, et al. "Hierarchical Memory Management for Mutable State." Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'18; February 24-26, 2018; Wien, Austria). Ed. Thomas Gross. New York, New York: ACM, 2018. Web.
Le, Matthew, Ryan Yates, and Matthew Fluet. "Revisiting Software Transactional Memory in Haskell." Proceedings of the Haskell'16: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Haskell; September 22-23, 2016, Nara, Japan. Ed. Geoffrey Mainland. New York, NY: ACM, 2016. Web.
Le, Matthew and Fluet, Matthew. "Partial Aborts for Transactions via First-Class Continuations." Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'15); August 31 — September 2, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Ed. Kathleen Fisher and John Reppy. New York, NY: ACM, 2015. Print.
Acar, Umut A., et al. "Coupling Memory and Computation for Locality Management." Proceedings of the First Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL'15); May 3 - 6, 2015, Asilomar, CA. Ed. Thomas Ball, et al. Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2015. Web.
Adsit, Connor and Fluet, Matthew. "An Efficient Type- and Control-Flow Analysis for System F." Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL'14); October 1 - 3, 2014, Boston, MA. Ed. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt. New York, NY: ACM, 2015. Web.
Le, Matthew and Fluet, Matthew. "Combining Shared State with Speculative Parallelism in a Functional Language." Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL'14); October 1 - 3, 2014, Boston, MA. Ed. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt. New York, NY: ACM, 2015. Web.
Bergstrom, Lars, et al. "Practical and Effective Higher-Order Optimizations." Proceedings of the Ninteenth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'14); September 1-3, 2014; Gothenburg, Sweden. Ed. Manuel Chakravarty. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2014. Print.
Bergstron, Lars, et al. "Data-Only Flattening for Nested Data Parallelism." Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (Shenzhen, China; February 23-27, 2013). Ed. Saman Amarasinghe and Richard Vuduc. New York, NY: ACM, 2013. Print.
Amsden, Edward and Matthew Fluet. "Fairness for Transactional Events." Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (Lawrence, KS, USA; October 3-5, 2011). Ed. Andy Gill and Jurriaan Hage. New York, NY: Springer, 2012. Print.
Fluet, Matthew. "A Type-and Control-Flow Analysis for System F." Proceedings of the 24th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (Oxford, UK; August 30-September 1, 2012). Ed. Ralf Hinze. New York, NY: Springer, 2013. Print.
Auhagen, Sven, et al. "Garbage Collection for Multicore NUMA Machines." Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC '11; San Jose, CA; June 2011). Ed. Madanlal Musuvathi and Xipeng Shen. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2011. Print.
Westrick, Sam, et al. "Disentanglement in Nested-Parallel Programs." Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 4. POPL (2019): Article 47. Web.
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Fluet, Matthew, et al. "Implicitly-threaded Parallelism in Manticore." The Journal of Functional Programming 20. 5-6 (2011): 537-576. Print.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
8/1/2014 - 7/31/2017
National Science Foundation (CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI)
Amount: $224,329
National Science Foundation (Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF)
Amount: $91,867
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Fluet, Matthew. "The Manticore Project." The 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing. ACM. Boston, MA. 24 Sep. 2013. Conference Presentation.
Fluet, Matthew, et al. "Programming in Manticore, a Heterogenous Parallel Functional Language." Revised Selected Lectures of the Third Central European Functional Programming Summer School (CEFP'09). Ed. Zoltan Horvath, Rinus Plasmeijer, and Viktoria Zsok. Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2010. 94-145. Print.
Bergstrom, Lars, Mike Rainey, John Reppy, Adam Shaw, and Matthew Fluet. "Lazy Tree Splitting." Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, 2010. 93-104. Print. É *
CSCI-641
Advanced Programming Skills
The goal of this course is to introduce the students to a programming paradigm and an appropriate programming language chosen from those that are currently important or that show high promise of becoming important. A significant portion of the learning curve occurs through programming assignments with exemplary solutions discussed later in class. The instructor will post specifics prior to registration. With the approval of the program coordinator, the course can be taken for credit more than once, provided each instance deals with a different paradigm and language. A term project involving independent investigation is also required. Note: students who complete CSCI-541 may not take CSCI-641 for credit.
Computer Science MS Project
Project capstone of the master's degree program. Students select from a set of possible projects and confirm that they have a project adviser. Students enroll in a required colloquium component that meets weekly, during which they present information, related to their projects. Projects culminate with delivery of a final report and participation in a poster session open to the public.
Programming Language Theory
This course is an introduction to the formal study of programming languages, demonstrating important intellectual tools for the precise description of programming languages and investigating the essential features of programming languages using these tools. Topics include: dynamic semantics (such as operational semantics); static semantics (such as type systems); proofs by induction on structures and derivations; formal treatment of essential programming-language features (such as assignment, scope, functions, objects, and threads). Both written and programming assignments will be required.
SWEN-599
1 - 3 Credits
The student will work independently under the supervision of a faculty adviser on a topic not covered in other courses (proposal signed by a faculty member)
Programming Skills
The goal of this course is to introduce the students to a programming paradigm and an appropriate programming language chosen from those that are currently important or that show high promise of becoming important. A significant portion of the learning curve occurs through programming assignments with exemplary solutions discussed later in class. The instructor will post specifics prior to registration. With the approval of the program coordinator, the course can be taken for credit more than once, provided each instance deals with a different paradigm and language.
This course discusses design and implementation of language processors and translators. Topics include lexical, syntactic, and semantic descriptions, algorithms for analysis tools, and programming techniques, as well as interpreters and code generation for typical computer architectures. Teams of students will be required to design and implement a programming language with nested block structure and data aggregates.


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I'm Descended From a Blue-Eyed Mutant
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen say that all blue-eyed people—including me and every member of my immediate family—descend from a common ancestor, who lived six- to ten-thousand years ago.
"Originally, we all had brown eyes", said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. "But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a 'switch', which literally 'turned off' the ability to produce brown eyes".
Variation in the colour of the eyes from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of melanin in the iris, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of variation in the amount of melanin in their eyes. "From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor," says Professor Eiberg. "They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA." [Link]
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Aren't blue eyes a recessive trait, meaning the gene has to be inherited from both parents? How can we be descended from a single ancestor? Or even a single couple? I'm hoping my family tree branches a bit more than that. :)
I was wondering the same thing. I suppose that the trait could have been unexpressed through a few generations until a pair of cousins with the same recessive gene produced a blue-eyed child. In which case, the correct title of this post should be "I'm Descended From the Blue-Eyed Grandchild of a Mutant."
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Recent political moves by Saudi Arabia in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories are clear evidence of a Sunni-Shia proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Middle East expert Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis (US Army-Ret.), author of Never Submit and The Deeper State, breaks it down.


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