I n 1635, at the founding of Connecticut, there were no physicians in the state. The native Americans had their shamans, and the first colonists relied on their most educated men, the ministers of the churches. The era of the cleric-physician endured through colonial times. These individuals, with their degrees in divinity, their intellects, their libraries, and the respect of their followers, ...

In a high-capacity cellular network with limited spectral resources, it is desirable to minimize the radio bandwidth costs associated with paging while locating mobile users. Reduction of communication overhead has become a burning issue of today. It induces the intellects to innovate some means which are cost reducing by nature. Location management aims to reduce this overhead through predicti...

There were two forms of nativism1 during the Tokugawa period. The first was literary in orientation. Literary nativists undertook exhaustive and comprehensive studies of Japan’s classical literature, and both poetry and prose works were central to their scholarship. An array of luminary intellects mostly from the eighteenth century made their mark on this form of nativism, including Keichū (164...

This paper claims that the “species dominance” issue will dominate our global politics later this century. Humanity will be bitterly divided over the question whether to build godlike, massively intelligent machines, called “artilects” (artificial intellects) which with 21 century technologies will have mental capacities trillions of trillions of times above the human level. Humanity will split...

Hands are awesome. Hands are marvelous in every sense of the word, and are as important to us collectively and individually as are our intellects. Hands are the difference between thinking and doing. There may be other creatures in this world that have intelligence, but if they don’t have hands, they cannot act on that intelligence. They cannot make things and place things. Without hands, they ...

Of course I have my growlingest of archangels, why should I expatriate myself to the howling wildnesses around Arthur’s Seat otherwise? But beside the mercenary motives, without which as Père de familia I do nothing – I am really glad to be of use to the University which has been civil to me and by no means sorry to have the opportunity of indoctrinating two or three hundred students with ortho...

jCIGMUND FREUD promulgated his epochmaking hypothesis of the unconscious mind just in time for the war to enable the truth of his theories to be tested on a large scale. And it was one of the few happy results of the war that it tempted from their academic seclusion men, such as Dr. Rivers, who, although members of the medical profession, had devoted themselves mainly to scientific investigatio...

Preparations for this contribution to the 1979 History of Surgery Lecture at the Yale University School of Medicine were begun in the autumn of 1978, the year which marked the four hundredth anniversary of William Harvey's birth. It was the present writer's original intention to honor the memory of that great medical scientist with a brief biographical note and critique. However, as the researc...