Elizabeth D. Hay has been selected as the 1988 recipient of the highest award of The American Society for Cell Biology-the E. B. Wilson Medal. She received the award and delivered an address on her work at the joint meeting of the ASCB with the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in February 1989. Betty Hay is a colorful, individualistic woman who has contributed to contempo...

Published algorithms[2] cost (apparently) hundreds of times as much as the usual clover action. I describe an approach which costs about a factor of 6.5×(N+1) as much as the clover action for an Nth order approximation, and even N = 1 looks quite promising. The ideas in this work are based on three remarkable formulas first published by Neuberger[3]: Introducing a zeroth-order Dirac operator D0...