“A postdoctoral fellowship is the most critical and intense period of a scientist’s career. It’s the professional equivalent of the SAT’s: it doesn’t last long, but the results have unnerving resonance. ‘A postdoc can afford to blow the first year or eighteen months of his or her fellowship,’ said [Robert Weinberg]. ‘It’s expected that one [...]
“‘I don’t care about papers, and I don’t care about making a name for myself,’ [Snezna Rogelj] continued. ‘That’s not important. What’s important is that I prove to myself that I can do this.’ She jabbed her pipette again. ‘I have to prove to myself that I’m a scientist, that I can design a difficult [...]
“Deductive question-answering systems generally evaluate queries under one of two possible assumptions which we in this paper refer to as the open and closed world assumptions. The open world assumption corresponds to the usual first order approach to query evaluation: Given a data base DB and a query Q, the only answers to Q are [...]