Mizan Rahman was born on September 16, 1932 in East Bengal, India. Mizan studied at the University of Dhaka where he obtained his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1953 and his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 1954. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1958, and an M.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1963. He was a senior lecturer at the University...

gures in anesthe siology and critical care medicine in Austria, Herbert Benzer (Figure 1), died on the 1st of May 2011. We, his former students, are left with great sadness. Herbert Benzer was an outstanding person. Having fi nished his academic study of medicine, he fi rst completed a residency in surgery at the University of Vienna. After an accident, he had to switch his specialty training a...

Professor Ebrahim (Abe) Mamdani died on January 22, 2010. He was born in Tanzania in June 1942 and educated in India, he went to UK in 1966. After obtaining his PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London, he joined its Electrical Engineering Department, where he developed the first fuzzy controller. In the mid-eighties he moved to Imperial College, where he was now an Emeritus Professor. I...

The charter of SRC is to advance both the state of knowledge and the state of the art in computer systems. From our establishment in 1984, we have performed basic and applied research to support Digital's business objectives , Our current work includes exploring distributed personal computing on multiple platforms, networking, programming technology, system modelling and management techniques, ...

I was recently informed by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases about the loss of Paul Angulo. It was very surprising for me that such a young, enthusiastic and productive hepatologist has passed away and I want to take the opportunity to write about my friend and colleague Paul Angulo. He was born in Guasabe, Sinaloa, Mexico. He did his college at “Eng. Pascual Ortiz-Rubio”...

Susan Armstrong worked as Professor of Translation Technology at the University of Geneva until her retirement in 2014. She served as secretary to the European chapter of the ACL from 1993–2000, remaining on the chapter’s nominating committee until 2004. She had a fundamental role in the founding and successful development of SIGDAT. Susan arrived in Switzerland from the United States in 1978 t...

I had the pleasure of working with Jane Wilhelms, who was one of my doctoral students from 1981 to 1985. One of the intellectual delights of working with Jane was that she had an unusual educational background. I recall vividly that, instead of a predictable background in computer science, she brought an education in zoology and biology. Her undergraduate zoology degree was from the University ...

Henry Johansson (1929–2017), member of the board of the Upsala Medical Society for many years and a frequent contributor to this journal, has recently passed away. He studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and then had a broad surgical training at the county hospital in Norrk€ oping before he was employed at the Surgical Clinic at the University (Akademiska) Hospital in Uppsa...

Readers Digest contains more than abridged stories. The “My Most Unforgettable Character” feature articles highlight people who affected others in a most positive manner. Computer graphics has a wonderful cast of unforgettable characters who founded the eld in the 1960s and 1970s. John Staudhammer, who died in February 2017, is one of those unforgettable characters. He profoundly in uenced comp...

We lost a star scientist this summer, Tony Pawson, who made incredible contributions in his shortened career to our understanding of the biochemical mechanisms of cell signaling. Tony, a Canadian of British origin, performed groundbreaking research spanning nearly 40 years that provided tremendous insight into how biochemical signals communicate information both between and inside cells. He was...