Persisting memories of Cyril Clarke in Baltimore

Sir Cyril Burt in Perspective

Numerical peculiarities in Sir Cyril Burt's reports of kinship correlations are most reasonably attributable to carelessness rather than fraud. Showing statistically significant deviations from randomness in the final digits of correlations, Ns, and IQs, or other nonrandomness suggesting "digital preferences," is unconvincing as purported evidence that Burt's figures were faked. -No analysis is...

Baltimore County , Baltimore

It has been found that listeners with sensorineural hearing loss who show similar patterns of consonant confusions also tend to have similar audiometric profiles. The present study determined whether normal listeners, presented with filtered speech, would produce consonant confusions similar to those previously reported for the hearing-impaired listener. Consonant confusion matrices were obtain...

Cyril Norman Hugh Long.

During his twenty-two years at Yale, Hugh Long has provided leadership as chairman of three departments (physiological chemistry, phar-macology and physiology), as dean, and as chairman of the division of biological sciences of the University, but even this unparalleled record of academic versatility and productivity reflects only a small part of his achievement. four years he came to Yale as P...

Roger Clarke

The search for viable eBusiness models continues. But important information is being overlooked. Discussions of open source software all too often focus on the limited context of Microsoft appearing to feel threatened by what it portrays as unbusinesslike competition from Linux and OpenOffice.org; whereas that debate is merely one small facet of the whole. Moreover, in addition to software, a g...

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 1897-1967.