Professor Frederick Hope Stone, OBE

Professor John Edgar Morison OBE, MD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath (1912–2007)

Dr JE Morison, later to become Honorary Professor of Histopathology, died on 5 September, 2007 aged 95, after a short illness. To all his colleagues he was familiarly known as ‘John Edgar’. He gave outstanding service to the Ulster Medical Society, acting as editor of the Ulster Medical Journal for 32 years (1951-1984). Professor DAD Montgomery was his co-editor from 1975-1984. In his review of...

Consumer Expectations’ Last Hope: A Response to Professor Kysar

Hope Winner Believes Stone Age Strategies Can Remedy Modern Depression

There he worked in a unit that housed—or “warehoused,” as he puts it—patients with schizophrenia. Many had been abandoned by their families and faced the prospect of spending their lives in mental health institutions. It struck him: “These were people just like me in nearly every way, except for the fact that they were suffering from this tragic disease,” Ilardi recalls. “They could get lonely ...

OBE: Outlier by Example

Outlier detection in large datasets is an important problem. There are several recent approaches that employ very reasonable definitions of an outlier. However, a fundamental issue is that the notion of which objects are outliers typically varies between users or, even, datasets. In this paper, we present a novel solution to this problem, by bringing users into the loop. Our OBE (Outlier By Exa...

Frederick Cohan

In graduate school I became interested in Ernst Mayr’s ideas on species and speciation, particularly his idea that a species is a cohesive body, whose divergence is opposed by various forces of evolution, and that the splitting of species marks the origin of lineages that no longer cohere. Species were thought to be cohesive mostly as a result of recurrent genetic exchange among them, but I was...