John Mandel, 1914-2007

Jesse John Kamp 2007

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Louis Mandel — Luc Maranget N ° 6261 Août 2007

JoCaml is a language for concurrent and distributed programming. We here present a non-trival distributed application written in JoCaml: a ray tracer. Thereby, we show how to program the coordination of multiple cooperating agents in a concise manner, in the spirit of functional programming. We also adress the issue of agent failure. Key-words: concurrency, distributed programming, programming ...

Durward William John Cruickshank (1924-2007).

Obituary: Professor John Henry, MBBS, FRCP, FFAEM (1939–2007)

John Henry was educated at St Joseph’s Academy at Blackheath in London and qualified MBBS from King’s College Hospital, London in 1965. He obtained the MRCP (UK) Diploma in 1974 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1986. He was appointed as Consultant Physician to the Poisons Unit at Guy’s Hospital in 1982 and continued in that role until he became P...

Lins-mandel Crystai~lizations

By An (resp. Nn) we will denote the set {0, 1 , . . . , n} (resp. An-{0}). If X is an arbitrary set, # X means the cardinality of X. All spaces and maps will be in the PL (piecewise-linear) category in the sense of [9] or [15]. The prefix PL will always be omitted. All the spaces that we consider will be compact. For basic graph theory see [8], [6]. The term graph will always be used instead of...