17: ALPHONSE TONTI (Co-Founder of Detroit)

Obituary - John Payne (Jack) Woodall, Co-founder of ProMED-mail

Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 25:123 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.25.123.11053 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/25/123/full/ © Raoul Kamadjeu et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

Rethinking Detroit∗†

We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city’s current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential externalities that features multiple equilibria at the neighborhood level. In particular, developing a resi...

Tom Isaacs: Co-Founder and President, The Cure Parkinson's Trust.

Tom Isaacs was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the young age of 26 and worked tirelessly to challenge the view that Parkinson’s was incurable, raising funds for research to trial new treatments and becoming one of the most well-known and popular international patient advocates. Having completed a successful 1,250 mile sponsored walk in 1999, Tom was determined to use his Parkinson’s to achieve mo...

Lecture 17 : Grigorchuk ’ s co - growth criteria

Grigni: [17] Optimizing through Co-Evolutionary Avalanches

We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by \self-organized criticality," a concept introduced to describe emergent complexity in many physical systems. In contrast to Genetic Algorithms which operate on an entire \genepool" of possible solutions, extremal optimization successi...