Mineral Waters**Read before Cincinnati Branch, January 12, 1915.

January 1, 1915, revisited.

It is a chilly overcast day in St Louis, much like it was 100 years ago today. I am standing near the corner of Grand Avenue and Olive Street, looking east toward the Mississippi River. In that direction, if not for the building across the street blocking the view, I would be able to see many places that are important to the history of orthodontics. When he first came to town in November of 189...

Cincinnati doctors before Daniel Drake, 1788-1807.

In a mystical way, perhaps, the heritage of Cincinnati as a medical center may have been foreshadowed by the exposure to the Aesculapian philosophy of three men connected with the founding of the city. John Filson, who did the first survey of the area, is recorded as having been a school-teacher who added to his income by parttime surveying, but there is evidence from contemporary letters that ...

, 2013 Lecture 12 : January 5

In the previous lecture we saw the algorithm that builds a decision tree based on a sample. The decision tree is build until zero training error. As we saw before, our goal is to minimize the testing error and not the training error. In order to minimize the testing error, we have two basic options. The first option is to decide to do early stopping. Namely, stop building the decision tree at s...

Analysis of SC 2000 January 12 , 2001

Executive Summary This report presents the results of a limited time evaluation of the block cipher SC2000. The evaluation consisted of theoretical derivations and practical experimentations. No flaws nor weaknesses have been identified in the design which could lead to cryptanalytic attacks with respect to the state-of-the-art. However, the design is complicated and uses components which do no...

In memoriam Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. 24 September 1915 - 25 January 2007.