CHARLES FAY WHEELER

Philip J. Fay (1953-2014).

Philip J. Fay, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester, passed away on June 25, 2014 at the age of 61. He succumbed to the multiple myeloma that he had battled valiantly for 6 years. Phil is survived by his wife of 38 years, Andrea, daughters Amber and Emily, and five grandchildren. On July 8th the flags at the University of Rochester were lowered in his h...

In Memoriam: Fredric S. Fay

Fred Fay died unexpectedly at 53 years of age while working with colleagues in Germany. Fred spent most of his career at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he had been one of the founding faculty members. His biological interests were the contractile mechanisms of smooth muscle and chemotaxis, but Fred’s greatest enthusiasm was for instrumentation. Fred invented new ways to se...

Wheeler Graphs: Variations on a Theme by Burrows and Wheeler

The famous Burrows-Wheeler Transform was originally defined for single strings but variations have been developed for sets of strings, labelled trees, de Bruijn graphs, alignments, etc. In this talk we propose a unifying view that includes many of these variations and that we hope will simplify the search for more. Somewhat surprisingly we get our unifying view by considering the Nondeterminist...

Walter Wheeler Cook

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This chapter reviews what has been learned about animal thinking from the study of animal communication, and considers what we might hope to learn in the future. It begins with a discussion on the importance of informational versus non-informational interpretations of animal communication and then considers what inferences can be drawn about the cognitive requirements of communication from the ...