Reports By Dr. Conrad Schick

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...

Allen Schick

During the past decade New Zealand has introduced far-reaching reforms in the structure and operation of government departments and agencies. This model has attracted interest in developing countries because it promises significant gains in operational efficiency. But developing countries, which are dominated by informal markets, are risky candidates for applying the New Zealand model. The auth...

Alana Schick

Griffith Conrad Evans

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. University of Rome on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard. He began his teaching career in 1912 as assistant professor of mathematics at the newly established Rice Institute , now Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He became professor there in 1...

Complexification Keith Conrad

We want to describe a procedure for enlarging real vector spaces to complex vector spaces in a natural way. For instance, the natural complex analogues of Rn, Mn(R), and R[X] are Cn, Mn(C) and C[X]. Why do we want to complexify real vector spaces? One reason is related to solving equations. If we want to prove theorems about real solutions to a system of real linear equations or a system of rea...