Gerald Shulman digests his award

Following his passion is 'life-changing' - rural award winner.

First black recipient of New York State Medical Society Award: Gerald W. Deas, MD, MPH.

MEDICAL SCHOLAR Deas' mother gave birth to him on April 15, 1931, in the midst of the Depression. It was during this period that most people, especially blacks, found life hard because of the scarcity of jobs and money. Deas was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were hard-working people when there was work to be found. Deas' father was a per diem work...

Gerald Grace

The death of Mr. Gerald Grace took place in South Africa as the result of a singularly tragic incident on Sept. 17th. For some time the Witwatersrand had been terrorised by a band of desperadoes. Mr. Grace was travelling on the Witwatersrand reef in a motor-car resembling that in which the gang was believed to be escaping. The police challenged the car, but, according to the account in the Rand...

Gerald Sommer

Cache Digests

This paper presents Cache Digest, a novel protocol and optimization technique for cooperative Web caching. Cache Digest allows proxies to make information about their cache contents available to peers in a compact form. A peer uses digests to identify neighbors that are likely to have a given document. Cache Digest is a promising alternative to traditional per-request query/reply schemes such a...