Peter Jarvis (1937-2018)

Jarvis Voice Controlled Devices

Jarvis is a system designed to respond to user issued commands to provide convenient control over a number of electronic devices. These devices can be lights, TV's, radios, stereos, etc. The system will be designed to work best within a moderate home with the convenience of a wireless router. Fig. 1.1 shows how each stage of the system will interact with each other. More details on this are pro...

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...

Infective endocarditis 1937-1987.

Eric Davidson (1937–2015)

The complexity of gene regulation and its importance to evolutionary change is now a foundational principle in both development and evolution. But this was not the case in the 1960s when Eric Davidson was one of a small group of scientists who began developing a theoretical framework backed by rigorous experimental work to explore this issue. Davidson and his group made fundamental contribution...

The Autobiography of Edward Jarvis: Part III

PHYSIOLOGIES In 1843 Horace Mann asked Dr. Jarvis to write a book on physiology as the basis of the law of health and life, to be used in schools. This proposition was very pleasant to him. He felt a strong desire that these ideas should be given to and used by the people. It seemed to him they were more important than most things taught in the schools, and should take precedence even of arithm...