Helen Salisbury: The confident gatekeeper

Walter Salisbury

Mr. Walter Salisbury died suddenly at Northampton on "th January, 1935, at the age of forty-six. He had been suffering from pneumonia following influenza. He entered the Bristol Medical School in 1906, and was a student at the -ftoyal Infirmary, winning the Tibbits Prize for Surgery. He qualified M.B., B.S. London, in 1913, and held the offices ?f House Surgeon and Casualty Officer at the Royal...

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Salisbury Infirmary and Contributory Organisations

such a misapprehension should exist, for we rather pride ourselves that we were probably the first to put forward a definite scheme of co-operation at a meeting held here on May 27, 1922. Unfortunately, we have not been able to get our neighbours to see that this suggested scheme is one that honestly makes an attempt to deal fairly with all the districts and hospitals in our area, and that it w...

Dynamics of confident voting

We introduce the confident voter model, in which each voter can be in one of two opinions and can additionally have two levels of commitment to an opinion—confident and unsure. Upon interacting with an agent of a different opinion, a confident voter becomes less committed, or unsure, but does not change opinion. However, an unsure agent changes opinion by interacting with an agent of a differen...

Trusted Computing, or the Gatekeeper

Recent years have seen serious attacks on the backbone of our information society infrastructure. To mention a few, we want to draw the attention of the reader to the disastrous consequences of the Slammer worm which disconnected South Korea from the Internet, knocked out ATMs, and caused an estimated damage of 7.7 billion USD for removal and down-times. On the other hand, Internet commerce gro...