2 This seems related to the idea that history matters; that economic development is path dependent. The work of Brian Arthur emphasizes path dependence. In development economics we examine this notion when we look at history versus expectations, work by K. Matsuyama and Paul Krugman. It is interesting, in this regard, to remember that Rostow’s Stages of Economic Growth was written as a manifest...

Nobel-winning Sir Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War wrote a chapter on the "wizards" who had helped Britain win the war in the air by the development and use of radar. William Grey Walter (1910-1977) was one of those young wizards. He used his experience to design and construct a life-like robot with a nonlinear dynamic brain, which offered an existence proof that brains ...

Mr. Walter Salisbury died suddenly at Northampton on "th January, 1935, at the age of forty-six. He had been suffering from pneumonia following influenza. He entered the Bristol Medical School in 1906, and was a student at the -ftoyal Infirmary, winning the Tibbits Prize for Surgery. He qualified M.B., B.S. London, in 1913, and held the offices ?f House Surgeon and Casualty Officer at the Royal...