This quotation from John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman concludes Ray’s 1980 paper, “A Logic for Default Reasoning,” one of the most influential and widely cited papers in all AI. The quotation captures what was special about Ray: He had an adventurer’s desire to go beyond the boundaries of our current understanding, together with a mathematician’s insistence on precision. Ray the adven...

Kurt G. Hofer, a radiation biologist and preeminent educator, unexpectedly but peacefully passed away on September 20, 2015, at the age of 76. Kurt was born in Feldkirchen in Kärnten, a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia, on March 2, 1939. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Vienna in 1965. In 1966, Kurt, accompanied by his wife Maria (Ridy) came to the United States to ...

The aim of this book is to provide an exhaustive [eingehende] orientation over the current material [gegenwärtigen Stoff ] of Hilbert’s proof theory. Despite the fact that very little has been achieved here so far compared to the goals of the theory, there still are plenty of succinct [prägnant] results, viewpoints, and proof ideas that seem worthwhile to make aware of. The purpose of the book ...

PHILLIPA MEIN SMITH, Maternity in Dispute. New Zealand 1920-1939, Wellington, New Zealand, Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvii, 180, illus., $14.95. This book deserves a wide circulation. It is brief, but excellent. The 1920s and '30s were intensely worrying for all concerned with maternal welfare, not least the mothers themselves. Maternal mortal...

Seven new appointments and six returns from leaves of absence were included in the announcement of faculty changes released yesterday by Dr. John M. Sayles, acting president of the college. Heading this listing of changes was the appointment of Dr. Sayles as successor to the late Dr. A. R. Brubacher as president of the college. Formerly director of training and principal of Milne, Dr. Sayles wi...

Este artículo reseña: Profesor Joseph Raz (1939-2022). In memoriam

THE following study is based upon five complete cases of Wernicke's syndrome. In only one case was there a history of alcoholism; two of the subjects suffered from pernicious anemia; one gave a history of hyperemesis gravidarum, and the last of gastric carcinoma. In two further cases, the one of alcoholism and the other of pernicious anxmia, no complete investigation could be carried out; it is...

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Although the Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus is readily cultivable in the developing chick embryo (Beck and Wyckoff, 1938; Kubes and Rios, 1939; Gallo and Vogelsang, 1939), no studies appear to have been made on the rate of propagation or distribution of this virus in the embryo, as has been done by Higbie and Howitt (1935) and by Bang (1943) for the Eastern and Western equine viruses...

A younig wxoman, aged 30, unmarried, and employed as a shop assistant, was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital on 7th November, 1939. She complained of weakness, palpitationi, and breathlessness on exertion, present since July, 1939. Since .\ugust she had noticed that her skin was a yellow colour. This yellow colour tended to disappear for short periods, but her other symptoms gradually inc...