Founders Review 2012

The Founders of Neurology

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

Hackers and Founders

ISO17799 (formerly BS17799) is a standard for heuristic security management in organizations, and ISO20000 (formerly BS15000) is the ITIL reference document. Both of these are high-level, handwaving guidelines about service and business operations. True enough, they pay lip service to configuration management, but the configuration management they refer to is not the same as discussed in ;login...

Oilfield Review - Summer 2012

48 Annual Review 2012

In conjunction with PODC 2012, the TransForm project (Marie Curie Initial Training Net-work) and EuroTM (COST Action IC1001) supported the 4th edition of the Workshop on theTheory of Transactional Memory (WTTM 2012). The objective of WTTM was to discuss newtheoretical challenges and recent achievements in the area of transactional computing. Theworkshop took place on July 19, 20...

The founders of child neurology

STEPHEN ASHWAL (ed.), Thefounders of child neurology, Norman Neurosciences Series 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing in association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990, pp. xii, 935, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-26-9). Ashwal has undertaken the mammoth task of bringing together biographical sketches, written by over 100 medical specialists, of 124 individuals who have made important contributio...