Sir Anthony Seymour Laughton. 29 April 1927—27 September 2019

Lecture 22 — April 29

Up until now, we have mainly studied how to decrease the query time, and the preprocessing time of our data structures. In this lecture, we will focus on maintaining the data as compactly as possible. Our goal will be to get as close the information theoretic optimum as possible. We will refer to this optimum as OPT. Note that most ”linear space” data structures we have seen are still far from ...

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Smos Workshop Arles 27-29 September

Manuel Martin-Neira presented an overview of MIRAS instrument performance and status of RFI to conclude that much has been learnt and progressed during the first 20 months of SMOS in orbit. Being MIRAS the first radiometer able of acquire images in a wide field of view, everything related to calibration and data processing has been new and complex. Several issues, due to software errors (e.g. m...

World Heart Day — September 29, 2014

September 28, 2014, is the 8th annual World Rabies Day. Rabies is a fatal acute encephalitis caused by lyssaviruses (1). The number of human rabies deaths worldwide is estimated to exceed 55,000 each year (2). In the United States, wild animal reservoirs serve as the most important source of infection. However, over 90% of human deaths globally are caused by bites by rabid dogs (3). Rabies cont...

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