The ultimate computer

Tele-immersion Portal: Towards an Ultimate Synthesis of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision Systems

We describe a novel approach for unifying computer graphics and computer vision systems, and our initial results in building and using a prototype system. This approach has three significant characteristics: unification of the real and virtual worlds for both input and output, tele-collaboration between remote participants, and interaction between heterogeneous stand-alone 3-dimensional (3D) gr...

"The ultimate diagnosis".

IN a short article in the British Medical Journal last year, a general practitioner recorded that one day the local postman said to him: "Doctor, most of those who pass away round here are patients of yours." It would certainly be true to say that many of those who have passed away in the Belmont area of Belfast during the past forty years were patients of mine, and this is a matter of mingled ...

The ultimate social network.

The ultimate anticoagulants?

The ultimate curse.

This paper tells the story of a doctor in a vegetative state. The approach towards him is quite different from that towards a common patient. The other physicians cannot deal with this situation with the necessary open mind.