Gustav Victor Rudolph Born. 29 July 1921—16 April 2018

Gustav Jacob Born (1851-1900)

Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians [5] served as the platform for his wax-plate method [6] of embryo modeling, heteroblastic (different tissues) and xenoplastic (similar species) transplantation methods, environmental influences on sex ratio studies, and proposed function of the corpus luteum [7]. He was born 22 April 1851 in Kempen, Prussia, ...

Magdeburg , April - July 2006

Introduction In the end of the fifties as N. Chomsky has introduced the well-known classes of regular , context-free and context-sensitive languages. The aim was to model the syntax of natural languages. Based on the Backus-Naur form for the description of the syntax of programming languages, in the beginning of the sixties S. Ginsburg and H.G. Rice noticed that the grammars introduced by Choms...

Lecture 22 — April 29

Up until now, we have mainly studied how to decrease the query time, and the preprocessing time of our data structures. In this lecture, we will focus on maintaining the data as compactly as possible. Our goal will be to get as close the information theoretic optimum as possible. We will refer to this optimum as OPT. Note that most ”linear space” data structures we have seen are still far from ...

Pehr Victor Edman, 14 April 1916 - 19 March 1977.

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