In Memoriam Keiichi Takeuchi, 1932-2005

Éditorial: Edmond Bianco (1932-2005)

In memoriam: Philippe Smets (1938-2005)

Professor Philippe Smets passed away on Monday night November the 14th, at home with his family around. He had been suffering from a brain tumor for several months. For those interested in uncertainty modeling and handling, he was an outstanding researcher in this area, in some sense a guiding light. Philippe Smets was born in Brussels (Belgium) on November 27, 1938. He first received a medical...

Carlos Margarit in memoriam, 1950-2005.

In memoriam: Lauri Saxén (1927-2005).

Dr. Lauri "Tupu" Saxen died last October (2005) at the age of 78. He was a physician, a scientist, a photographer, a naturalist, a great story-teller and a man who enjoyed science enormously. His name has become synonymous with the Finnish school of Developmental Biology, a school that focuses on reciprocal inductive interactions during vertebrate organogenesis. But many biologists probably don...

In Memoriam: Professor Dick Grimsdale 1929-2005

Dick was a quiet and modest man whose influence on computing and computer graphics runs deep. His early years at the University of Manchester involved him closely with the fast developing world of computer technology. Appointed to an assistant lectureship in 1951, during Tom Kilburn’s time at the helm, he moved on from improving the valve Manchester Mark II to create the world’s first transisto...