Richard Carleton Hubley—1926–1957

Hugh Hadfield Carleton

Proctor Assignment at Carleton University

Carleton University needs proctors during examination sessions to oversee the students as they write their final examinations. The process of assigning proctors to examinations is quite complex because of the sheer number of examinations and various complex constraints on allowable assignments. We developed a computer-based system to replace an existing manual system for assigning proctors, fre...

Anil Maheshwari School of Computer Science Carleton

These notes extensively use material from Lars Arge, David Mount, CLRS book, Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming vol. 1, Kleinberg and Tardos book and the Algorithms from Massive Data Sets book. They are updated occasionally. I have used part of this material for graduate course COMP 5703 on Algorithms at Carleton. The aim of these notes is to summarize the discussion in course lectures, and ar...

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Kuru and D. Carleton Gajdusek: a close encounter.

Kuru, the first human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, was transmitted to chimpanzees by D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008). In this review, I briefly summarize the history of this seminal discovery alongside its epidemiology, clinical picture, neuropathology and molecular genetics. The discovery of kuru opened new windows into the realms of human medicine and was instrumental in the late...