March 11, 1934

Lecture 11 — March 22 , 2012

Before presenting any integer data structures, we present some models for computations with integers (both to precisely state what we are looking for, and as a framework to prove lower bounds). In each model, memory is arranged as a collection of words of some size (and potentially a small amount of working memory), and a fixed cost is charged for each operation. We also always make the fixed u...

Professor Alain Chabaud (13 March 1923–11 March 2013)

Jean-Antoine Rioux*, Marie-Claude Durette-Desset, Jean-Louis Albaret, Christiane Bayssade-Dufour, Jimmy Cassone, Irène Landau, Annie Petter, and Roselyne Tchéprakoff 1 Honorary Professor of Parasitology (Montpellier), Former President of the French Society of Parasitology, Faculté de Médecine, Université Montpellier 1, 1 rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France 2 Ex-members of ‘‘La...

Purnomo Projodipuro (April 11, 1934–May 10, 2013)

The many dozens of our Society members who were cli-nicians and scientists assigned to the US Naval Medical Research Unit #2 (NAMRU-2) in Jakarta, Indonesia, during its 40-year presence (1970–2010) in that nation, along with many Indonesian colleagues, are also alumni of the School of Purnomo. This diminutive, quiet, and unassuming scholar and gentleman so profoundly affected nearly all of us p...

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

Japanese Nuclear Energy after March 11 , 2011