Lord Chalmers

Re-reading Chalmers Johnson

Lord Lister

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg, Sweden

The objective behind Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) is to allow users to interact with computers through familiar tangible objects, thereby taking advantage of the richness of the tactile world combined with the power of computer-based simulations. TUIs “give physical form to digital information, employing physical artifacts both as representations and controls for computational media” [1]. Th...

CHALMERS Face verification using biometric hashing

Face-based biometrics approach has proved to be robust and efficient for verification systems (comparison with a reference database). While it opens the door to a range of applications principally aimed at securing areas, it fails to get its way to high-security systems, such as banking transactions. In this thesis, we outline an attempt to take a first step in the latter direction, by generati...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...