We introduce a world vision in which data is endowed with memory. In this data-centric systems paradigm, data items can be enabled to retain all or some of their previous values. We call this ability remembrance and posit that it empowers significant leaps in the security, availability, and general operational dimensions of systems. With the explosion in cheap, fast memories and storage, large-...

an unassuming entrance where once passed Alan Turing, Tommy Flowers, and the thousands of men and women who labored in secrecy. Collectively, they changed the outcome of World War II; individually, the contributions of a few laid the foundations of computing. Until recently, a strong possibility existed that Bletchley Park would be lost to modern development. Thanks to the efforts started by To...

Much behavioural and physiological evidence suggests that the hippocampus encodes space. Puzzlingly, however, hippocampal damage also disrupts episodic memory. A recent study shows how these two faculties might be related, finding that the spatial firing of hippocampal 'place cells' is sometimes modulated by what the animal has recently done or what it will do next. Thus, the cells encode somet...

""THE Second Annual General Meeting of the League of Remembrance lias been held at 1, Marlborough Gate, when Princess Beatrice, President of the League, presided. Mr. John Murray, C.V.O., Chairman of the League, referred to the great success which followed the publication of an article by Ian Hay, entitled " An Ideal Organisation," which sympathetically explained the work of the League and resu...

* carry on certain war services for the hospitals which were formerly discharged by Queen Mary's Needlework Guild. Mr. John Murray, the Chairman of the League, presiding at its commemmoration dinner on July 11th at the Connaught Rooms, said that the suggestion of consolidating all the admirable work called up by the war, and the bringing together of those who were interested to provide the nucleus