Denton Arthur Cooley, MD, a pioneering heart surgeon, died November 18, 2016, at age 96. He was born in Houston, TX, on August 22, 1920, to Ralph Clarkson Cooley and Mary Fraley Cooley. From the beginning, Cooley’s career in medicine and his contributions to humanity seem to have been foreshadowed. His father was a prominent Houston dentist, and the attending obstetrician at his birth was Dr Er...

This paper describes POPE-GP, a system that makes use of the NSGA-II multiobjective evolutionary algorithm as an alternative, parameter-free technique for eliminating program bloat. We test it on a classification problem and find that while vastly reducing program size, the technique does improve generalisation performance. Program Bloat, the phenomenon of ever-increasing program size during a ...

In May 2012 Arthur Beaudet, a geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, reported a preliminary link between the deficiency of a gene that helps cells synthesize a biomolecule called carnitine and the risk of autism in some boys. Beaudet’s 2012 Inaugural Article (1) in PNAS raised the possibility that carnitine—a fatty acid-ferrying ...

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On the 4th of December 1967, Hans Kamp sent his UCLA seminar notes on the logic of ‘now’ to Arthur N. Prior. Kamp’s two-dimensional analysis stimulated Prior to an intense burst of creativity in which he sought to integrate Kamp’s work into tense logic using a one-dimensional approach. Prior’s search led him through the work of Castañeda, and back to his own work on hybrid logic: the first made...