Our Founders and Benefactors

A report to our founders.

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Hackers and Founders

ISO17799 (formerly BS17799) is a standard for heuristic security management in organizations, and ISO20000 (formerly BS15000) is the ITIL reference document. Both of these are high-level, handwaving guidelines about service and business operations. True enough, they pay lip service to configuration management, but the configuration management they refer to is not the same as discussed in ;login...

The Founders of Neurology

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

Tuberous sclerosis complex and its founders.

Success factors for Crowdfunding founders and funders

Crowdfunding has been used as one of the effective ways for entrepreneurs to raise funding especially in creative industries. Individuals as well as organizations are paying more attentions to BLOCKIN