My Memories of Russell Hamilton

Searching My Family's Multimedia Memories?

Critical Technical Challenges Many of us have many family memories saved on physical and electronic media but we do not have a mechanism to search them. Some of these memories are locked up in analog format such as black and white 16mm films (no audio), black and white photographs, color photographs, cassette recordings, 8 track tape, VHS tapes and 8MM tapes. Others are held in electronic forma...

MAY: My Memories Are Yours

In human relations engagement and continuous communication is promoted by the process of sharing experiences. This type of social behaviour plays an important role in the maintenance of relationships with our peers and it is grounded by cognitive features of memory. Aiming at creating agents that sustain long-term interactions, we developed MAY, a conversational virtual companion that gathers m...

Memories to Stanisław Kielich: My teacher, my mentor and my friend

A consistent scheme is proposed for quantizing the potential amplitude in the Schrödinger equation in the caseof negative energies (lying in the discrete-spectrum domain). The properties of the eigenfunctionsφν(r) and eigenvalues ανcorresponding to zero, small, and large absolute values of energy E < 0 are analyzed. Expansion in the set {φν(r)} is used todevelop a regular pertur...

[«I stole with my eyes»: Hamilton Naki, a pioneer in heart transplantation].

On December 2, 1967, when Denise Darvall was hit by a car, a surgery that made medical history was unfold: Hamilton Naki, a black man, expertly removed her heart and gave it to Christian Barnard, who was preparing the receptor, Louis Washkansky, in an adjacent operating room. Naki's contribution was an outlaw act, a criminal offense under the laws of apartheid due to the difference of races; th...

My Memories of Leonid Khachiyan and a Personal Tribute for His Contributions in Linear Programming