Obituary: Fuad Sami Haddad, 1924–2015

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The Sami Haddad collection of Arabic medical manuscripts.

In September 1985, the London auction firm Sotheby's published a catalogue of Fine Oriental manuscripts andminiatures to be sold in their rooms on 21-22 November. This sale was of particular interest to historians of medieval Near Eastern medicine, since Lots 457-525 comprised a corpus of ninety-five manuscripts from the collection of the late Sami Haddad. Examination of the manuscripts reveale...

The Baillon-Haddad Theorem Revisited

In 1977, Baillon and Haddad proved that if the gradient of a convex and continuously differentiable function is nonexpansive, then it is actually firmly nonexpansive. This result, which has become known as the Baillon-Haddad theorem, has found many applications in optimization and numerical functional analysis. In this note, we propose short alternative proofs of this result and strengthen its ...

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Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia

We describe our work towards developing SamiTalk, a robot application for the North Sami language. With SamiTalk, users will hold spoken dialogues with a humanoid robot that speaks and recognizes North Sami. The robot will access information from the Sami Wikipedia, talk about requested topics using the Wikipedia texts, and make smooth topic shifts to related topics using the Wikipedia links. S...

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