Walter Thomas James Morgan: a biographical sketch

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...

Albrecht Kossel, A Biographical Sketch **

Modern knowledge of protein chemistry rests firmly on a number of fundamental discoveries extending back to the time of Beccarius and Scheele. Although it has been two hundred and twenty years since Beccarius isolated gluten from wheat, factual knowledge of proteins has accumulated with great rapidity only during the last century. It may be noted that the impetus was not only the increasing gen...

Robert Katz: A Biographical Sketch

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 ...

Sketch : W Grey Walter 1 Walter

Nobel-winning Sir Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War wrote a chapter on the "wizards" who had helped Britain win the war in the air by the development and use of radar. William Grey Walter (1910-1977) was one of those young wizards. He used his experience to design and construct a life-like robot with a nonlinear dynamic brain, which offered an existence proof that brains ...