GILRUTH PRIZE AWARD, 1957

Impartial award of a prize

A group of peers must choose one of them to receive a prize, when everyone cares only about winning, not about who gets the prize if someone else. An award rule is impartial if my message never in uences whether or not I win the prize. If each agent nominates a single (other) agent, and nominations are anonymous, impartiality is feasible provided not all agents can nominate any other agent. Set...

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor Medal Award, June, 1957.

Roy Porter Student Essay Prize WinnerPsychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957–1980

Hyperactivity is the most commonly diagnosed childhood psychiatric disorder in north America. Most physicians believe that the disorder is a neurological dysfunction which is best treated with stimulants, such as ritalin. Accounts of the history of hyperactivity written by physicians, psychologists and even historians suggest that the disorder was always conceived as such. This paper argues tha...

A prize, an award and Christmas crackers: season's greetings from the MJA.

Number of reviewers 1038 mas hamper. You may muse about the diagnosis for Santa’s red cheeks or chuckle at the collective nouns for your colleagues’ specialties (perhaps even your own); youmight be enlightened by the thought of diagnosing Nutcracker syndrome, or, if Tchaikovsky is not your beat, the effects of AC/DC on your surgical skills; while if you are saddened by a rejected grant applicat...

Parallel Image Processing System on a Cluster of Personal Computers (Best Student Paper Award: First Prize)

The most demanding image processing applications require real time processing often using special purpose hardware The work herein presented refers to the application of cluster computing for o line image processing where the end user bene ts from the operation of otherwise idle processors in the local LAN The virtual parallel computer is composed by o the shelf personal computers connected by ...