Full speed ahead with space plane

Damn the torpedoes--full speed ahead!

7th Waedenswil Day of Chemistry Personalized Medicine: Full Speed Ahead!

The aim of Personalized Medicine in disease treatment and prevention is to take account of the individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person. This approach is applied to certain tumours but is still not common for most diseases. On June 18, 2015 the TEDD network (Tissue Engineering for Drug Development and Substance Testing) invited a total of 130 academic and indus...

Full Stream Ahead

Data Stream Management I’ll begin by thanking Frank Olken and Le Gruenwald, as well as Oliver Spatscheck of IC’s editorial board, for their efforts in selecting the articles for this issue. I’ve read a draft of their introduction, which gives a clear and concise tutorial on what data stream management means and what issues surrounding it must be addressed. I recommend that readers unfamiliar wi...

Faculty Development – Full Steam Ahead!

Almost 15 years ago, we were facing the challenge to find a name for the GMA committee working on issues that in the Anglo-American languageworld are concisely called “faculty development”. The obvious German term “Fakultätsentwicklung” would not have been very accurate as “faculty” especially in North America denotes the personnel rather than the institution (whereas the German term “Fakultät”...

Looking at Full Looking Ahead

Haralick and Elliott's full looking ahead algorithm [4] was presented in the same article as forward checking, but is not as commonly used. We give experimental results which indicate that on some types of constraint satisfaction problems, full looking ahead outperforms forward checking. We also present three new looking ahead algorithms, all variations on full looking ahead, which were designe...