QnAs with Leroy E. Hood

QnAs with Adrian E. Raftery.

A drian Raftery has a penchant for probability. Over a three-decade career spanning several disciplines, Raftery, a professor of statistics and sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, has used statistical tools to unravel uncertainty in all manner of projections. Named the world’s most-cited researcher in mathematics...

Developmental and physiological circuits: dissecting complexity. A report on a talk given by Dr Leroy Hood.

Dr Leroy Hood, the President and Director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, WA, USA, also spoke at the Nobel Symposium on self-organization. The main points of his talk are summarized in this paper.

Leroy Hood expounds the principles, practice and future of systems biology.

The e ectiveness of type - based unboxing Xavier Leroy

We compare the e ciency of type-based unboxing strategies with that of simpler, untyped unboxing optimizations, building on our practical experience with the Gallium and Objective Caml compilers. We nd the untyped optimizations to perform as well on the best case and signi cantly better in the worst case.

QnAs with Angel Rubio.

Just as physics requires a different set of tools to explore phenomena at the quantum scale, chemistry requires a quantum paradigm. At the macroscale, the interaction of light with chemical entities can be observed in processes such as photosynthesis. But the actual interaction between photons and other matter occurs in the realm of quantum chemistry. National Academy of Sciences member and phy...