Photograph published with kind permission of the family of Peter Wason.

The topic of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) started for us at Nottingham in the early summer of 1972. During a discussion with one of my graduate students, Peter Grannell and my post-doc Dr Allan Garroway, concerning multiple-pulse line narrowing experiments in solids, the idea occurred to me to use the line narrowing technique as a means of effectively removing dipolar interactions in a mate...

The Peter Landin prize honours the best paper presented at each year’s International Symposium on the Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL). It has been awarded every year since 2003, and covers a range of topics including functional operating systems, static analysis for cost information of functional programs, techniques to improve array processing for data locality and...

Peter Hollenbeck is Professor and Associate Head of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. He did his PhD at the University of California-Berkeley with W. Zacheus Cande, followed by postdoctoral training with Dennis Bray at the MRC Cell Biophysics Unit in London. He then served on the Harvard Medical School faculty in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and later the Department of Ne...

1 Garrard, P. & Forsyth, R. (2010). Abnormal discourse in semantic dementia: a data-driven approach. Neurocase, 16, 520-528. Notes: Structural and content-related deficits occur in connected discourse of patients with semantic dementia (SD). We used principal components analysis (PCA) to characterise the sources of variation in word usage during picture description by controls and SD patients. ...

This paper provides a background and rationale for some of the architecture and design decisions in the Cell processor, a processor optimized for compute-intensive and broadband rich media applications, jointly developed by Sony Group, Toshiba, and IBM.