John Malcolm Hirst, D.S.C. 20 April 1921 — 30 December 1997

August 2014 20 − − John Bryce McLeod . 23 December 1929

AANA Journal, December 1997

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a progressive, chronic illness that is enigmatic because the mechanisms for its pathogenesis have yet to be determined. Syndromes synonymous with CRPS are reflex sympathetic dystrophy, reflex neurovascular dystrophy, causalgia, algoneurodystrophy, sympathetically maintained pain, clenched fist syndrome, and Sudek's syndrome. The diagnosis of CRPS is cate...

INTERNET DRAFT April 1997

Knowledge Systems Laboratory December 1997

Virtual worlds offer great potential as environments for education, entertainment, and collaborative work. Agents that function effectively in heterogeneous virtual spaces must have the ability to acquire new behaviors and useful semantic information from those contexts. The human-computer interaction literature discusses how to construct spaces and objects that provide "knowledge in the world"...

VISTA Status Report December 1997