Cecile E. Kramer, AHIP, FMLA, 1926–2007

Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2017–2018

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

Cecile Pickart 1954–2006

When an unusually gifted scientist passes away prematurely, and when her friendship was so widely treasured , the intensity of sadness is difficult to convey. Cecile Pickart shaped the ubiquitin field for over two decades with equal parts creativity, rigor, and fairness (see photo). Her finest work centered on the polyubiquitin chain, the primary signal for protein degradation by the proteasome...

Structural Stefan Kramer

In many real-world domains the task of machine learning algorithms is to learn a theory for predicting numerical values. In particular several standard test domains used in Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) are concerned with predicting numerical values from examples and relational and mostly non-determinate background knowledge. However, so far no ILP algorithm except one can predict numbers a...

On Kramer-Mesner matrix partitioning conjecture

In 1977, Ganter and Teirlinck proved that any 2t× 2t matrix with 2t nonzero elements can be partitioned into four submatrices of order t of which at most two contain nonzero elements. In 1978, Kramer and Mesner conjectured that any mt× nt matrix with kt nonzero elements can be partitioned into mn submatrices of order t of which at most k contain nonzero elements. In 1995, Brualdi et al. showed ...

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