Robert Earle Buchanan 1883-1973

Robert Earle Buchanan: an unappreciated scientist.

Robert Earle Buchanan (1883-1973), 19th President of the Society of American Bacteriologists (later American Society for Microbiology), was one of the more important 20th century microbiologists. He was a dominant force in creating the field of bacterial systematics and made significant contributions to microbial physiology. He also numbered a number of influential textbooks. A reasonable concl...

Muriel Robertson, 1883-1973.

1883 - 4566

Mobile robot networks emerged in the past few years as a promising distributed computing model. Existing work in the literature typically ensures the correctness of mobile robot protocols via ad hoc handwritten proofs, which are both cumbersome and error-prone. This paper surveys state-of-the-art results about applying formal methods approaches (namely, model-checking, program synthesis, and pr...

MARK BUCHANAN Ubiquity

Unifying theories have a long history. Ever since antiquity, attempts have been made to explain a seemingly heterogeneous variety of phenomena by a few general principles. One of the most recent attempts in this vein is SelfOrganised Criticality (SOC), a new approach to complex systems, which has become one of the important areas of research in physics as well as in many other disciplines durin...

Re-Thinking James Buchanan

On Saturday, September 19th, local citizens, historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and the rare college student alike converged at the LancasterHistory.org Campus of History for the second day of the President James Buchanan National Symposium. The theme for the symposium was "The Worlds of Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan: Race, Gender, and Politics in the Civil War Era," thus it featured the ...