His current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition and special architectures for vision and image processing. He is a student member of IEEE. both in computer science. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. His current research interests include pattern recognition, machine vision and their applications in robotics. India. He has also been a consu...

Separated have always been a pleasure because of her intelligence and sensitivity. All this may have made me over-optimistic. Whatever the causes, the book proves disappointing. It is stuffed full of factual and straightforward advice on law, sex, housing, in-laws and children, which is good. But the pages are scattered with potted biographies of broken marriages, which read like 'cases' rather...

The aim of this article is to suggest that some scientific instruments may be considered worthy of their own biographies and that such a genre may have its own merits and charms. The instrument chosen to exemplify this point is a Hartnack microscope objective lens of about 1860 which served, in turn, the histologist and anatomist Albert von Kölliker, the comparative anatomist Robert Wiedersheim...

Stephen Gaukroger’s new biography of Descartes is a major accomplishment. Gaukroger offers the reader an overview of Descartes’ life and works, with healthy doses of intellectual background thrown in for good measure. It should have a major impact on Cartesian studies, both within the history of philosophy and within the history of science. As Gaukroger’s full title makes clear, this is suppose...

The biographies of 280 scientists demonstrate that the age distribution of their career peaks is identical to those of jazz musicians, painters, and writers, and that this universal age profile holds only among scientists who were married some time in their lives. I interpret this as support for Miller's cultural display model in an evolutionarily novel environment.

The authors express their gratitude to all who contributed to the project especially for their patience and teaching! Author biographies are listed at the end of the article. Review coordinated