STANLEY: A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE

A biographical sketch of

Walter Erwin Diewert began life in the winter of 1941 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed a B.A. degree in 1963, and an M.A. in mathematics in 1964, both at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. He is currently a full professor at the University of British Columbia, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1...

Aging Ergonomics: A Field with Inadequate Notice

A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists

A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, ed. by TREVOR I. WILLiAMS, London, A. & C. Black, 1969, pp. xi, 592, £5. World Who's Who in Science . . . from Antiquity to the Present, ed. by ALLEN G. DEBUS, Chicago, Ill., Marquis-Who's Who Incorporated, 1968, pp. xvi, 1855, $51. The publication of these two important reference works within only a few months of each other is indicative of the present ...

Alexander Lerner: A Biographical Sketch

A special session entitled “Future Directions In Artificial Intelligence” was held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C. in August. The session, chaired by Jack Minker, was held to honor Soviet cyberneticist Alexander Yankelovich Lerner’s seventieth birthday. Minker described Dr. Lerner’s contributions to science. Participants Saul Amarel, Nils Nilsson, John ...

Biographical Sketches

Some notable names in renal medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Abercrombie moved from successful general practice into the Royal Public Dispensary as a consultant and was appointed physician to the King in Scotland. President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and a contemporary of Sir Robert Christison both ...