A Memorial Tribute: Peter Barnes: the Playwright who Laughed at Death

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

Memorial tribute to Dr. Michael Conrad

We lost a dear friend and colleague on December 28, 2000, when Professor Michael Conrad passed away after a battle with lymphoma. Michael was truly a giant in the field of evolutionary computation, a pioneer who endeavored to push the limits of our knowledge of biological information processing in all its forms. His contributions to evolutionary computation include the first known simulation of...

Peter Gray - a personal tribute from a colleague

I worked with Peter for eight years and during that time I learned a great deal from a man who had an abundance of drive and enthusiasm. I had been warned he had quite a bark and that it was often heard, which was very true. He could be forthright about his views as many of us probably know from having been at the receiving end or overhearing from a distance. His bark was tempered though by an ...

Sir James Lighthill and modern fluid mechanics: A memorial tribute

This memorial tribute commemorates Sir James Lighthill the man and the mathematical scientist. A brief biographical information is presented with my personal reminiscences. His major contributions to fluid mechanics with special reference to nonlinear dispersive waves are discussed. By any standards, his legacy of research and publications of six books and one hundred fifty papers will remain f...

A memorial tribute to Anthony E. Cawkell, 1920-2003

On 5 August 2003, our beloved colleague Anthony E. Cawkell passed away from cancer. Tony was a longtime member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Science as well as Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, now the Chartered Institute for Librarians and Information Professionals (CILIP). Before ‘retiring’ to a private consultancy, CITECH Ltd, he had been ISI’...