The ILO Stumbling towards Its Centenary Anniversary

Stumbling towards a diagnosis.

Not all diagnostic successes occur easily or as flashes of inspiration. Sometime the key feature in diagnostic success is persistence.

The centenary progress of molecular genetics. A 100th anniversary of T. H. Morgan's discoveries.

A century ago, Thomas Hunt Morgan, the American scientist, studied the cytogenetic changes of drosophila and came to cytogenetic explanation of Mendel's basic laws of genetic heredity. These studies resulted in today's Mendel-Morgan chromosomal theory of heredity. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of this important discovery the authors have decided to give a review of the most signi...

Towards the 50 anniversary of Machine Scheduling

The most urgent organizational problems of the present-day Theory of Scheduling (TS) are discussed, namely: creating a database in the Internet aimed to accumulate all information about the results obtained in TS; elaboration of a new problem classification for TS that could be taken for the foundation of the proposed database and would be targeted to eliminate the gap between Project and Machi...

Von Helmholtz: His Ophthalmoscope and Its Centenary

Reading ‘On Denoting’ on its Centenary

Part 1 sets out the logical/semantical background to ‘On Denoting’, including an exposition of Russell’s views in Principles of Mathematics, the role and justification of Frege’s notorious Axiom V, and speculation about how the search for a solution to the Contradiction might have motivated a new treatment of denoting. Part 2 consists primarily of an extended analysis of Russell’s views on know...