Lionel Giles, 1875–1958

Lionel Shingleton Smith

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972).

The Giles Production System Compiler

Production rule systems have found widespread use in event correlation, automated planning, expert systems, and other areas of artificial intelligence. This paper describes Giles, a compiler that is used to create production rule systems. Its defining feature is that its compilation target is not machine code, but instead a modern relational database management system (RDBMS). While there has b...

Lionel Robbins: Neoclassical Maximizer or Proto-praxeologist?

Austrian economists writing after the so-called Austrian revival of the 1970s have generally been dismissive of Lionel Robbins’s An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (Robbins 1932), denying it a significant role in shaping the modern praxeological paradigm in economics.1 Their attitude in this regard has been heavily influenced by the views of Israel Kirzner. Kirzner (197...

Giles Gaudineau and His Medicines

GILES GAUDINEAU was one of the early French doctors to reside in New York City. On 26 August 1686 Giles, Susanna and Ellena Gaudineau were granted denization in New York, with liberty to trade and traffice and on 8 October Giles was commissioned lieutenant of foot under Captain Minvielle.' Dr. Gaudineau, together with a number of other foreign-born Frenchmen, on 18 August 1687, sent to Governor...