R H Tucker, 1922-2003

James William Kitching (1922-2003)

James William Kitching collected and studied fossils of dinosaurs and early humans [3] in the twentieth century. He worked at the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontological Research in South Africa. During the fifty-three years he worked at the institute, Kitching spent eighteen of those in the field uncovering fossils. Kitching recovered fossils of early human ancestors, later called Australo...

In memory of Professor John R. Cameron (1922-2005)

W H R Rivers (1864-1922): the founder of research in cross-cultural perception.

This paper presents a brief review of Rivers's contribution to psychology, especially to his cross-cultural studies of the basic perceptual processes of vision, and examines the lasting influence of his findings. It reports briefly on the scientific milieu in which Rivers carried out his work and traces the growth of his interest in the psychology of perception from the early days of his medica...

in memory of professor john r. cameron (1922-2005)

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R. Dechter, Constraint Processing, Morgan Kaufmann (2003)

Constraint satisfaction is a relatively young research area of Artificial Intelligence addressing combinatorial optimization problems. Until recent years, there were only a few books describing the topic so it was not easy for newcomers to get in and to understand the techniques behind constraint satisfaction. This situation hindered education in the area so the community did not grow and devel...