Millicent Bell: A Memorial Hour

The Millicent Protocols for Electronic Commerce

Many protocols have been proposed in the last year which address the problem of securely transferring money over a public network. Most of these schemes have similar goals: to enable transactions with properties similar to those achievable today using credit cards, to provide consumers and vendors with guarantees similar to those afforded by credit cards, or to translate existing payment mechan...

A Comparative Genre Analysis of Memorial Cards in English and Funeral/Memorial Announcements in Persian

As covert socio-cultural relations have significant effects on language, these norms are reflected in linguistic and generic structure of public death notices as a distinctive genre. This study intended to identify the different genres of death notices (e.g. memorial advertisements, obituaries, funeral announcements/posters, memorial cards, etc.) and to conduct a comparative genre analysis of m...

Memorial of Joseph Murray

It has not been too long since we realized that Joseph Murray (1919-2012) has passed away while we heard this sad news 2 weeks ago. We never forget his memories and trip for the first time on 14th November 1974to Iran. He returned to our country one more time later to share his experiences with the country specialists. It is a great sorrow that he did not see our progress in plastic and reconst...

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

Address at a memorial service.

We are met here to-day, all of us friends and many of us colleagues of George Frederic Still, in testimony of our sorrow at his passing, but also in proud recollection of his work and character. This is not the time to speak of his professional achievements; it is enough to say that he was universally recognized, not only in this country but throughout the world, as a master in that branch of m...