St Peter's Eve

Peters’ Anomaly

While conducting medical aid in Mozambique, a 41 year old African male presented to our eye clinic complaining of visual impairment. The male was found to have Peters' anomaly type 2, a rare congenital ocular malformation leading to sensory amblyopia and glaucoma.

Eve Marder

so that the creativity of millions of years of plant evolution is not irreplaceably lost during our own short tenure on this planet.” Given the urgency of current environmental concerns, engaging the public in the conservation of plants has to be a priority for any scientist interested in the variety of plant life, he says. It is therefore central to the work of the Millennium Seed Bank and the...

Jan Peters and Jens

Reinforcement Learning is an essential ability for robots to learn new motor skills. Nevertheless, few methods scale into the domain of anthropomorphic robotics. In order to improve in terms of efficiency, the problem is reduced onto reward-weighted imitation. By doing so, we are able to generate a framework for policy learning which both unifies previous reinforcement learning approaches and a...

and Jörg Peters

Eve Mitleton-Kelly Dissertation

If organisations are seen as complex evolving systems, co-evolving within a social ‘ecosystem’, then our thinking about strategy and management changes. With the changed perspective comes a different way of acting and relating which could lead to a different way of working. In turn, the new types of relationship and approaches to work could well provide the conditions for the emergence of new o...