In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

Jean DuMortier from whom he received a rich physical and mental' inheritance. His early education was received in the Norwalk public schools and at Harstrom's Preparatory School. He went to Williams College for two years, where he creditably participated in athletics-swimming, track, and football. His last two years of college were spent at Columbia University where he received the degree of Ba...

Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a neurologist from the famous Salpêtrière school and a renowned maritime explorer, visited Brazil twice. The first visit was in 1903, when the first French Antarctic expedition, traveling aboard the ship Français, made a very short stopover in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. The second took place in 1908, during the famous voyage of the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic,...

ion today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—it is the map that ...

It is very rare to find in a single person both the qualities of a remarkable scientific mind and of a wonderful human being. With this tribute to Jean-Yves Jaffray, we hope to convince the reader of his outstanding creativity and vision, of the coherence of his work, and of its relevance for some topics in decision theory that are currently under lively debate. As a scientist, Jean-Yves Jaffra...

There are no doubts. We owe wavelet analysis to Jean Morlet. How did Morlet discover wavelets? Here is the story. During the late seventies Morlet was working as a geophysicist for the Elf-Aquitaine company. He had to process the backscattered seismic signals which carry the information related to the geological layers. These seismic signals present transient patterns. Processing such signals w...

TODAY Jean Cruveilhier is best remembered as an early professor of pathology, as the author of the two-volume atlas L'Anatomie pathologique du Corps Humain, and for his theoretical views on the role of phlebitis and inflammation in general disease processes.13 Works dealing with the history of pathology emphasize his views on inflammation and mention several conditions of which he gave the firs...

In 1972, Theodosius Dobzhansky addressed the convention of the National Association of Biology Teachers on the theme “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. The title of that address (published in The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 35, pp. 125-129) might serve as an epigram of Dobzhansky’s worldview and life, although it is limited in scope, for Dobzhansky believed an...