Biography: Mitchell S. Roslin

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The Roslin Institute

What is it famous for? Dolly the sheep, who in February this year, made headlines as the first mammal to be cloned from a somatic cell derived from an adult animal. The publication of this work by Roslin Institute researchers sparked intense media speculation about human cloning. Was Dolly the first to make a splash? No. Media attention had already been caught in 1991 with Tracy the sheep, the ...

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Review of Euclid ’ s Windows 3 History and Biography

This is a shallow book on deep matters, about which the author knows next to nothing. The concept of the book is appealing: a popular review of geometrical notions from Euclid to Einstein as background to contemporary string theory with comments on the related intellectual history and portraits of some principal figures: Descartes, Gauss, Riemann and Einstein. Unfortunately the author is indiff...

Object - Oriented Query Optimization : What ' s the Problem ? Gail Mitchell

An object-oriented database model can support features such as abstract data types, methods , encapsulation, subtyping (or inheritance), complex structures, and object identity. The processing of queries in such a model also entails support for these features. Query optimization will require new techniques for supporting the object-oriented features. Although many of the problems that must be s...