William (Bill) T. Peterson (1942-2017)

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now.

William "Bill" Back: an incisive geochemist and a great mentor.

Introduction William ‘‘Bill’’ Back (Figure 1) was one of the great ‘‘idea people’’ in low-temperature geochemistry during the blossoming of ground water hydrology in the latter half of the twentieth century. Prior to the1950s, most of the research in ground water chemistry was related to water quality and was carried out by chemists who rarely ventured into the field. Bill, Ivan Barnes, Bruce H...

William T. Freeman

Image intensity variations can result from several di erent object surface e ects, including shading from 3-dimensional relief of the object, or paint on the surface itself. An essential problem in vision, which people solve naturally, is to attribute the proper physical cause, e.g. surface relief or paint, to an observed image. We addressed this problem with an approach combining psychophysica...

Biography of William T . Newsome

T he processing of visual information by the brain is a complex task. Identifying the neural mechanisms that underlie visual perception and vision-based decision-making has been the research focus of William T. Newsome over the past 30 years. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, Newsome explains that ‘‘perceptual experience is constructed from streams of action potentials’’ in t...

William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson. The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 272p. alk. paper, $95.00 (ISBN 9781584562894). LC2011-003557

upon how his strategies and recommendations might be different for different types of library systems. For example, the goals, missions, and user groups are different for a public library than they are for an academic library. Still, some of Huber’s ideas are very controversial and thought provoking. Strategy 10, for instance, discusses alternatives to traditional selectors for collection devel...