Twelve wise men at the Vatican

In the Vatican

VATICAN CITY [AP) • Pope John Paul I assumed the throne of St. Peter and leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics yesterday in solemn, outdoor rite marked by the simplicity already a hall-mark of his papacy. Breaking more than 1,000 years of tradition, the 65-year-old pontiff donned a simple white wool stole as the shepherd of his flock and concelebrated his inaugural Mass with the...

Atherosclerosis: the XXIst century epidemic: a meeting at the Vatican.

Major advances were made in the past decade in the understanding of endothelial injury and the key role of inflammation and atherosclerosis in cardiovascular disease (CVD). A large number of trials for drugs and devices have been successfully completed and it became clear that prevention should be at the core of efforts against CVD. However, every single publication on CVD highlights the “ather...

The Vatican Versus Freud

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...

Membrane Computing at Twelve Years

A Real-time Solution to the Wise-men Problem

Honest-to-goodness commonsense reasoners have finite resources and hence also limited reasoning capabilities. Traditional logically complete logics therefore cannot be used to satisfactorily represent the reasoning of these agents. This observation has brought about tremendous strides in the area of limited reasoning. We mention here several such approaches. Konolige [Kon84] distinguishes three...