i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

In this article we study hardware-oriented versions of the recently appeared Layered ORthogonal lattice Detector (LORD) and Turbo LORD (T-LORD). LORD and T-LORD are attractive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) detection algorithms, that aim to approach the optimal Maximum-Likelihood (ML) and Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) performance, respectively, yet allowing a complexity quadratic in the num...