Richard M. Karp, of the University of California-Berkeley, received the 1985 ACM A. M. Taring Award for his fundamental contributions to complexity theory. Presented at the Association's Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, in October, the award is ACM's highest honor in computer science research. By 1972, Karp had established a reputation as one of the world's leading computer science theori...

This paper provides a literature review of the use of donor human milk by hospitals in Australia and elsewhere from the postwar period through to the early 1980s, and establishes the context for a small study of practices which happened in that period. The latter study will be reported elsewhere. The purpose of this paper is to provide a resource for future comparison when the history of the ne...

Alpine is a file system that supports atomic transactions and is designed to operate as a service on a computer network. Alpine’s primary purpose is to store files that represent databases. An important secondary goal is to store ordinary files representing documents, program modules, and the like. Unlike other file servers described in the literature, Alpine uses a log-based technique to imple...

The 'Thompson Memorial Home for Incurables', now Thompson House, was completed and ready for the admission of patients in February 1885. This very fine building in the Queen Anne style stands on the Magheralave Road, Lisburn, nearly opposite the Friends' School. It is a memorial to William Thompson Esq, MD, FRCSI, born 7th March, 1806. He had been surgeon to the County Antrim Infirmary, Seymour...

a survey on the hover flies (diptera: syrphidae) fauna of northern iran, between 2010 and 2011, led to the discovery of the species pipiza accola violovitsh, 1985. both the genus and species are newly recorded from iran. all the specimens were collected from gilan and mazandaran provinces, using malaise traps. the diagnostic characters of p. accola and its geographical distribution is presented.