Charles R. (Bob) Schuster, 1930-2011

Charles Robert (Bob) Schuster: 1930-2011.

Charles Robert (Bob) Schuster was born and grew up in New Jersey across the Delaware from Philadelphia. His father was a grocer–butcher, his gracious and delightful mother sang in the choir, and there was never a doubt that Bob revered his older sister. He learned to play the trumpet early and had great affection for jazz throughout his life. Nothing would portend the dedicated public health ad...

Daryl Essam and R . I . ( Bob ) McKay

This paper investigates the use o f partial functions in genetic programming. Previous work has shown that the convergent behaviour of populations of partial functions is very similar to that of populations of total functions. However the convergence rates o f populations of partial functions have been slower. The results presented here demonstrate a significant improvement in the rate o f conv...

Erik Palmgren and Peter Schuster

The theory of formal spaces and the more recent theory of apartness spaces have a priori not much more in common than that each of them was initiated as a constructive approach to general topology. We nonetheless try to do the first steps in relating these competing theories to each other. Formal topology was put forward in the mid 1980s by Sambin [11] in order to make available to Martin–Löf’s...

Schuster Presenter : Dor Gabay 1

Bob Steneck

Bob Steneck is professor of marine biology, oceanography and marine policy in University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences. He is a marine ecologist whose ‘laboratories’ include coral reefs in the Caribbean and Indopacific oceans and kelp forests of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. He has published over 150 scientific papers on topics including lobsters, sea urchins, fish, corals...