Joseph Thomas Clover, 28 February 1825

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

In nineteenth century Great Britain, Thomas Henry Huxley [3] proposed connections between the development of organisms and their evolutionary histories, critiqued previously held concepts of homology, and promoted Charles Darwin?s theory of evolution [4]. Many called him Darwin?s Bulldog. Huxley helped professionalize and redefine British science. He wrote about philosophy, religion, and social...

Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921-2000)

King was born on 4 June 1921 in New York City, New York. When his mother died in childbirth, an aunt raised King in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He studied at Fordham University [11] in Bronx, New York, where he earned his BS in 1943. Following graduation, King served as a US Army instructor in the Army Medical Technicians School [12] at the Lawson General Hospital [13] in Atlanta, Georgia. Whi...

"Thomas Reid's Critique of Joseph Priestley: Context and Chronology"

Draft : February 28 , 2008 Learning Permutations with Exponential Weights ∗

We give an algorithm for learning a permutation on-line. The algorithm maintains its uncertainty about the target permutation as a doubly stochastic matrix. This matrix is updated by multiplying the current matrix entries by exponential factors which destroy the doubly stochastic property of the matrix, and an iterative procedure is needed to renormalize the rows and columns. Even though the re...

Denis Parsons Burkitt - 28 February 1911--23 March 1993.