Remembering Bob Rodieck: 1937-2003.

Identity Based Encryption through Elliptical Curve Cryptography

Although the Boneh and Franklin identity-based encryption scheme is not overly complex theoretically, the implementation of the system proves to be somewhat difficult. 1 Identity Based Encryption: The difficulty with public key encryption involves distribution of the keys and the assumption that they will always be available (Ding 194). It is not always practical to be connected to a key certif...

The space complexity of mirror games

We consider a simple streaming game between two players Alice and Bob, which we call the mirror game. In this game, Alice and Bob take turns saying numbers belonging to the set {1, 2, . . . , 2N}. A player loses if they repeat a number that has already been said. Bob, who goes second, has a very simple (and memoryless) strategy to avoid losing: whenever Alice says x, respond with 2N+1−x. The qu...

The First Steps in Seeing

Bob Edwards : the trail that led to the Nobel Prize 1 Sir Francis Galton 3 The Galton Institute Conference 2010 4 Epigenetics and Epigenomics 5

Robert Geoffrey ‘Bob’ Edwards was born into a working-class family on the 27th September 1925 in the small Yorkshire mill town of Batley. The family relocated to Manchester when Bob was about 5, where he was educated and gained a scholarship in 1937 to Manchester Central Boy’s High School. The war then interrupted Bob’s education, for when he left school he was conscripted into the British Army...

A more or less unequal world ? World income distribution in the 20 th century Bob Sutcliffe