Robert Dick Gillespie

Robert Dick, MD, FRCS, IMS: a biographical note by his grand-nephew.

Robert Dick, born in 1831, was a brother of Sir John's mother, Ellen Dick, the Dicks being long established in Garry, Ballymoney, County Antrim, where Robert's father, also Robert, was an extensive farmer. After schooling at Ballymoney, the young Robert entered Queen's College Belfast in October 1849 (one of the 195 students 55 in medicine2who constituted the first batch of entrants to the newl...

Dick Byrne

Dick Byrne is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He studies the evolution of cognition, and has investigated a wide range of animal capacities — vocal and gestural communication, deception, social comprehension, mental mapping, causal knowledge and the acquisition of novel manual skills. After training in cognitive psychology, he turned to primate f...

R. D. Gillespie

A tribute to Dick Heinegård

This issue of Matrix Biology commemorates the memory of Dick Heinegård and his exceptional contributions to identify extracellular matrix molecules and their interactions that form cartilage matrices. This tribute to him demonstrates the development of his cartilage matrix model and how this model relates to the articles in this Matrix Biology Cartilage issue.

Microsoft Word - gillespie-03-icassp

__________________________________________ * Currently affiliated with Microsoft Corporation. ABSTRACT We showed in [1] that penalizing long-term reverberation energy is more effective than maximizing the signal-to-reverberation ratio (SRR) for improving audible quality and automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. Using this knowledge we propose a blind approach to speech dereverberation th...