Dr. Edward John Routh, F.R.S.

A Conversation with Dr . Edward

Ample evidence shows that KDD has become a major topic of interest in both research and industry in China since 2006. In academia, professor Zhi-Hua Zhou at Nanjing University in 2006 chaired a National Machine Learning workshop, inviting researchers in the greater China area to share their experience. In 2009, the first Asian Conference on Machine learning was inaugurated in Nanjing. In indust...

Dr. John Lindesay Pearce

Dr. John Thompson

Dr John Rae

recognition is made also of Bright's discoveries in liver disease and neurology. But the reader gains little understanding of Bright's work in the context of changing ideas of disease, chemistry, and medical investigation of the first half of the nineteenth century. We do not learn enough about what, if any, skills and ideas Bright brought back from his European excursions. It is when discussin...

Dr. John Walton, Yale 1720 *

Among the rare books in the Sterling Memorial Library is a small volume which has been entirely overlooked by medical historians and yet should be of some interest because it is the first medical publication by a graduate of Yale. Otherwise the book has little to commend it, for it contains no original case descriptions, no startling discoveries, no experimental observations. Indeed, it is mere...