Jacques Maurice (1934-2013)

Jean Jacques DuMortier 1904-1934

Jean DuMortier from whom he received a rich physical and mental' inheritance. His early education was received in the Norwalk public schools and at Harstrom's Preparatory School. He went to Williams College for two years, where he creditably participated in athletics-swimming, track, and football. His last two years of college were spent at Columbia University where he received the degree of Ba...

2013 Maurice Wilkes Award Given to Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan

......Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan received the 2013 Maurice Wilkes Award “for contributions to the design of power-efficient microblade servers and pioneering work in disaggregated system designs.” Partha has been a leading advocate for new system designs to improve energy efficiency and total cost of ownership (TCO) in large-scale datacenters. The technology inflection point of the last...

14th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference; November 7–8, 2013

Purnomo Projodipuro (April 11, 1934–May 10, 2013)

The many dozens of our Society members who were cli-nicians and scientists assigned to the US Naval Medical Research Unit #2 (NAMRU-2) in Jakarta, Indonesia, during its 40-year presence (1970–2010) in that nation, along with many Indonesian colleagues, are also alumni of the School of Purnomo. This diminutive, quiet, and unassuming scholar and gentleman so profoundly affected nearly all of us p...

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...