James Graham Ballard (1930-2009)

Lieutenant-Colonel James Graham Hojel

Peter J. Landin (1930-2009)

This note is a prelude to a forthcoming special issue of HOSC dedicated to Peter Landin’s memory.

Graham Lusk *

Dementia: Management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms. Clive Ballard, John O'Brien, Ian James, and Alan Swann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 324 pp., 29.95 (paperback)

Dementia: Management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms is an ambitious undertaking. Building on the excellent work of Lawlor’s Behavioral Complications in Alzheimer’s Disease, in addition to the proceedings of two International Psychogeriatric Association consensus conferences on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), the authors present a thorough review of the relev...

Re Ballard on the Need for Careful Description

I think, like the reviewer of Bruce Ballard 's previous paper, that he wants the moon. However , as one who has tried, for the purposes of lecturing, to extract concrete system descriptions with workedthrough examples f rom published material , I think he is right to call for bet ter standards. Alan Bundy (1981) has made a similar appeal for AI in general. I t ' s impor tant , in part icular, t...