The 1876 Election: A Fictionalized Account

The Lancet on the telephone 1876-1975.

IT HAS BEEN a hundred years since Alexander Graham Bell succeeded in transmitting speech electrically. As is well known, the first words spoken by Bell on the telephone on 10 March 1876 were: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." What is not generally remembered is that the very first telephone call was also the first telephone call for medical assistance for Bell had just upset the wet battery ...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election

The truncated geometric election algorithm: Duration of the election

1. Motivation This is a sequel paper to Kalpathy and Ward (2014), which also appears in Statistics and Probability Letters. The earlier paper introduces a randomized leader election algorithm, in which a truncated geometric number of participants survive from round to round. (Louchard and Prodinger (2009), constitutes a good starting point for readers who are unfamiliar with randomized leader e...

Alfred Newton Richards 1876-1966.

Academic Excellent Educators: A Student Election or an Administrator Selection?

Dear Editor in chief Each year, Iranian university authorities, as a good tradition on Teacher’s Day, choose and introduce their top educators to their academic community. Undoubtedly, this effort is a good action, generally leading to effective promotion of the educational system. However, the criteria for these selections are always a matter of big debate. In overview, an academic excellent...