In memoriam Alexander Sima (1969–2004)

In memoriam: Alexander I. Klimov (1943-2013).

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

Simple Integrated Media Access (SIMA)

The basic objectives of future Internet are to increase the network capacity, to offer a practical real-time service, and to develop a feasible charging scheme. These objectives introduce very strict requirements for the trafilc control system. This paper presents a new simple approach for traffic management: Simple Integrated Media Access (SIMA). According to the SIMA concept each customer sha...

In Memoriam: Mark Everingham

MARK EVERINGHAM was a brilliant colleague. You may have been aware of him at conferences where he asked penetrating questions that could crystallize a key aspect of a paper. In conversation with him you might have been stunned by a new connection he made between areas of research or to a crucial related work. These questions and observations were a reflection of his very broad knowledge and dee...