Joseph Evan Griffith

Evan Malone

We report on ongoing investigations of the potential for Solid Free-form Fabrication (SFF) processes to autonomously manufacture entire fully functional complex electromechanical systems, and of the application of such technology to a selfsustained robot ecology. Two complementary approaches are considered: (a) A universal fabrication system capable of autonomously manufacturing arbitrary machi...

Evan Graves

Griffith: Curare

IF anyone had suggested a few years ago that I should present a paper on the clinical use of curare I would have been inclined to laugh, for to most of us curare has always been a fabulous poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels, useful in the physiological laboratory, but far removed from the realm of practical therapeutics. Nevertheless I have now to report i...

Griffith Conrad Evans

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. University of Rome on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard. He began his teaching career in 1912 as assistant professor of mathematics at the newly established Rice Institute , now Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He became professor there in 1...

A multiscale Griffith criterion

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