A Visionary Destination

SPOT — A Toolbox for Visionary Ideas

We present SPOT, an open-source toolbox for the experimental analysis of optimization algorithms. Evolution strategies (ES) have been severely criticized before they started their triumphal procession as optimization algorithms. Schwefel discussed ideas which appeared to be provocative at the first sight. SPOT provides a modern framework to test these ideas. The extreme programming methodology ...

ARVO 2011: Visionary Genomics

Fort Lauderdale, Florida once again hosted more than 10,000 ophthalmology and vision science researchers. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting is well known for presentation of the latest milestones in fields related to vision science. ARVO is famous for being basic science oriented; clinical posters and papers, and even commercial exhibitions are marke...

Vaidya Bhaskar Vishwanath Gokhale: A great visionary

A skilled Ayurveda teacher, a far-sighted visionary, an eminent Ayurvediya physician, a revolutionary freedom fi ghter, and philosopher, all these words fall short to describe the personality that was ‘Mama Gokhaleji’. Born on 19th April 1903 at Kolhapur (Maharashtra) and deceased on 12th January 1962, he got a lifespan of only 62 years; but the task he has achieved in this short span is unpara...

Brown-Séquard: a visionary of science

MICHAEL J. AMINOFF, Brown-Sequard: a visionary of science, New York, Raven Press, 1993, pp. xii, 211, illus., $85.00 (0-88167-956-9). If there is a direct relation between the fame or notoriety of an individual and the number of biographies of him, then the case of Charles l8douard Brown-Sequard (1817-1894) is a paradox. He was one of the most outstanding medical scientists of the second half o...

Scanning probe microscopy: a visionary development.