Memorial Issue Dedicated to Dr. Howard D. Flack: The Man behind the Flack Parameter

MEMORIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF LATE UNIV. – PROF. DR. KARL HEINZ RECHINGER

Karl Heinz Rechinger was born on October 16, 1906 at Vienna (Austria). He was the only son of Dr. Karl Rechinger and Rosa Elisabeth Rechinger née Favarger. His father was also a plant taxonomist. The principal focus of K.H. Rechinger was flora writing. He was the author of Flora Aegaea and founder and editor of "Flora Iranica". In 1929, Rechinger started to work as an unpaid volunteer in the De...

Neurologists come in for over-servicing flack.

Life ’ S Information Hierarchy by Jessica C . Flack

D IA C O M M O N S; IN SE T: H EN R I R O U S SE A U , T H E D R E A M , 1 91 0, W IK IM ED IA C O M M O N S Biological systems – from cells to tissues to individuals to societies – are hierarchically organized (e.g. Feldman & Eschel, 1982; Buss 1987; Smith & Szathmáry, 1998; Valentine & May, 1996; Michod, 2000; Frank, 2003). To many, hierarchical organization suggests the nesting of components...

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Memorial tribute to Dr. Michael Conrad

We lost a dear friend and colleague on December 28, 2000, when Professor Michael Conrad passed away after a battle with lymphoma. Michael was truly a giant in the field of evolutionary computation, a pioneer who endeavored to push the limits of our knowledge of biological information processing in all its forms. His contributions to evolutionary computation include the first known simulation of...