Herman Wold medal winners 2007-2009

The 2007 George W. Beadle Medal. Robert K. Herman.

Award 2007 Winners Academic Award

Innovation and Benefits A fundamental aspect of chemistry involves creating chemical bonds between carbon atoms. Chemical processes commonly used to make such bonds usually also generate significant amounts of waste. Professor Krische developed a broad new class of chemical reactions that make bonds between carbon atoms using hydrogen and metal catalysts. This new class of reactions can be used...

2007 Ralph R. Tompsett Writing Award winners.

Volume 20, Number 1 12 Dr. William C. Roberts, editor in chief, announced the cowinners of the sixth Ralph R. Tompsett Writing Award. Bertrand J. Brown, MD, who was a fellow in transplant anesthesiology until July 2006, published the article, “Use of dexmedetomidine versus general anesthesia for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms,” in the July 2006 issue. Coauthors of the article...

2009 SIGMOD / PODS Award Winners SIGMOD

of the 1999 SIGMOD paper: Computing multidimensional aggregates in high dimensions is a performance bottleneck for many OLAP applications. Obtaining the exact answer to an aggregation query can be prohibitively expensive in terms of time and/or storage space in a data warehouse environment. It is advantageous to have fast, approximate answers to OLAP aggregation queries. In this paper, we prese...

A comparison of Age Average of Iranian Medal Winners in Olympic and Asian Games to their Counterparts from Selected Countries

This study attempted to draw a comparison between the age average of Iranian medal winners in Olympic and Asian games and their counterparts from selected countries. The statistical population of the study included Olympic medal winners from the past 100 years and the Iranian who had won medals in 3 rounds of Asian games. The findings indicated that the age average of Iranian medal winners of 3...