Laurent Schlumberger: À l’Église qui vient. Lyon: Olivétan, 2017, 316 pp.

Professeur à l’INSA de Lyon / rapporteur

Artificial Intelligence at Schlumberger

SCHLUMBERGER is a large, multinational corporation concerned primarily with the measurement, collection, and interpretation of data. For the past fifty years, most of its activities have been related to hydrocarbon exploration. The efficient location and production of hydrocarbons from an underground formation requires a great deal of knowledge about the formation, ranging in scale from the siz...

Genèse de l'hôpital moderne. Les hospices civils de Lyon de 1802 à 1845

LESTER S. KING, Medical Thinking. A historicalpreface, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 336, £13.80. This is an interesting and a very readable book, which no doubt owes some of its interest to the author, in addition to having practised pathology, having studied philosophy before his medical studies, and having maintained a life-long interest in medical history. The leitmotiv of t...

Application of software measurement at Schlumberger RPS

At Schlumberger RPS, the application of the Goal/Question/Metric approach (GQM) and the Quality Improvement Paradigm (QIP) resulted in an enhanced ‘model-based GQM’. It customizes measurement to the organization and supports in the reuse of experience, by applying and maintaining reusable reference models. This ‘model-based GQM’ is a more formal method for the application of software measuremen...

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We assessed the prevalence of common altered brain proteins in 296 cognitively unimpaired subjects ranging from age 50 to 102 years. The incidence and the stage of hyperphosphorylated-s (HPs), b-amyloid, a-synuclein (aS), and transactive response DNA (TDP) binding protein 43 (TDP43)-immunoreactivity (-IR) increased with age. HPs-IR was observed in 98% of the subjects; the locus coeruleus was so...