William Knox Peacock

Peacock spiders

How has the environment at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme influenced your work? We develop and use high resolution, dynamic, quantitative readouts of behavior. This is a real strength at the institute and strongly resonates with me due to the approach I developed while working on the cell biology of trachea morphogenesis. For me, biology is about regulating dynamic processes and if you...

Peacock flies

A quick guide on peacock flies, a species of insect where, unusually, both males and females perform dances apparently to attract mates.

Professor J H Peacock

The Peacock Encryption Method

Here is described a preliminary method that enables secure “anti-search-engine” encryption, where the middleman can participate in the encrypted information exchange, without being able to understand the exchanged information, encrypted using a one-way function, as well as being unaware of one of two main exchange participants.

Dudley Knox Library