Operations Research Council

Medical Research Council

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

Medical Research Council

' Modern diagnosis and treatment make an increasing demand for methods by which the functional efficiency of organs or systems of the body may be objectively and quantitatively determined. It is important alike for the physician and for the surgeon to be able to assess the degree of impairment with which he has to deal. It may also be necessary to have means of measuring a disability for such p...

Council on Undergraduate Research

Operations Research Transforms Baosteel's Operations

Food and Agricultural Research Council

The process of transforming data or observations into a coherent, meaningful framework generates information, that is something which can be utilised by the recipient. The technology by which such a transformation is achieved is information technology and in an agricultural context this can be traced back at least as far as Fisher at the beginning of the 1900s. The utilisation of Information Te...