A critical encounter with Fred Dallmayr: Introduction

My Encounter with Quantum Computing An Introduction to Quantum Computing

QnAs with Fred Gage.

With the advent of rapid genome sequencing, the view of the human genome as a vast desert dotted with far-flung oases of functional genes has contended with a growing appreciation of the role of regulatory sequences in shaping gene expression. The fraction of the human genome’s noncoding component that can be considered functional remains to be established, but strewn across the seeming wastela...

PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION Jay April Fred Glover

The merging of optimization and simulation technologies has seen a rapid growth in recent years. A Google search on “Simulation Optimization” returns more than six thousand pages where this phrase appears. The content of these pages ranges from articles, conference presentations and books to software, sponsored work and consultancy. This is an area that has sparked as much interest in the acade...

Introduction to Statistics Fred Hamprecht Multidimensional Image Processing

A Brief Philosophical Encounter with Science and Medicine

We show a lot of respect for science today. To back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. It seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. We can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. Of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. Nonetheless, epistemological jus...