In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 2000 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They were 53 and 35 meters high and the Great one figured as the tallest representations of a standing Buddha. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the destruction, a conso...

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...

In 1998 1999 a team of researchers from the Computer Science Departments at the University of Stanford and the University of Washington digitized a number of Michelangelo’s sculptures, including the David statue, using a custom designed laser triangulation scanner. The resultant data has been made available to the research community. This paper explores the data structures and the inherent geom...

Background/Introduction The law on consent is continuously evolving as there is no statue in British law relating to consent. Instead this relies on common or case law. The recent case of Montgomery vs NHS Lanarkshire has change the consent law with relation to the disclosure of information. It is now recommended that we as surgeons should disclose risks that an average patient would want to kn...

The first draft of this case was prepared by Jane Seymour and Molly Kinder; significant contributions to the current version were made by Bruce Benton. as in a prominent square in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, visitors see a distinctive statue of a child leading a blind man—a symbolic reminder to passersby of the part each partner played in the control of one of Africa’s most devastating diseases....

Wearable augmented reality (AR) can help the task of a user by adding virtual objects to his view on the real world. To save power in the mobile unit, rendering can be offloaded to the backbone as much as possible. However, because of low latency requirements, images for mobile AR can not be rendered completely in the backbone. We developed a system capable of end-to-end latencies of 10ms, with...

(See for instance Metaphysics, Physics, Topics, . . . ) The part-whole relation is to ontology and metaphysics as fundamental as essentialaccident relation, the four different kinds of cause (material – as a constituent (ingredient: the bronze is cause of the statue) –; formal – the form is the account of the essence –, efficient – the source (the man who give the advice, the producer of the pr...