Oral History – Professor Alwyn Smith

The Late Professor David Boyes Smith

The following clauses from the " Memorandum regarding the position of medical officers to be appointed to H. M.'s Indian Forces " makes this clear. " The claims to pension of widows and families of medical officers shall be treated under the provisions of such Royal Warrant regulating the grant of pensions to the widows and families of British officers as may be in force at the time being. "The...

The Successes and Failures of Professor Smith

Remember Not to Forget Furman: A Response to Professor Smith

Professor Robert J. Smith encourages readers, lawyers, and courts to forget Furman v. Georgia and to focus instead on death penalty challenges grounded in the diminished culpability of nearly all capital defendants.1 We applaud Professor Smith’s call to focus on the mental and emotional characteristics that reduce the blameworthiness of so many of those charged with capital crimes; recognizing ...

Alwyn Scott How Smart is a Neuron ?

In the United States, automatic numerical computation stems from the Second World War, where the need to calculate artillery trajectories led to the development of the world’s first general purpose electronic computer, called the ENIAC (for electronic numerical integrator and calculator). Switched on in the summer of 1945, this machine employed 17,468 vacuum tubes connected by half a million so...

Smith and Furlan History of Endovascular Stroke Treatment

The natural history of large-vessel extracranial and intracranial arterial occlusion has played a major role in the evolution of endovascular stroke therapy. Basilar artery occlusion was felt to have the worst prognosis, and this drove Zeumer et al to first perform basilar thrombolysis via catheter and report excellent outcomes based on historical controls. However, early stroke thrombolysis cl...