W follows concerns events from the summer of 1949, when Richard Bellman first became interested in multistage decision problems, until 1955. Although Bellman died on March 19, 1984, the story will be told in his own words since he left behind an entertaining and informative autobiography, Eye of the Hurricane (World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 1984), whose publisher has generously...

RICHARD L. BLANCO, Wellington's Surgeon General; Sir Janes McGrigor, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1974, 8vo., pp. xiv, 235, illus., $9.75. During the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars vigorous attempts were made for the first time by both the French and the British to improve the soldier's health and welfare. No doubt this was a direct result of eighteenth-century enlightenme...

some time, he was indeed Almighty, and the writer has reason to be grateful, as it took Todd, then Chairman of the Science Research Council chemistry panel, only three weeks to get funding for the first n.m.r. machine purchased by the S.R.C. In his foreword, Todd gives as his reason for writing this autobiography the desire to provide the type of information about himself which, as a writer of ...

Ghasem Amin is known as a harbinger of women’s social and cultural rights in the world of Arabs. Primarily, he centered his ideas on three axes: a; women’s education to the primary level, B; necessity of women’s free will and decision making in issues like marriage, c; religious veil (covering all the body except the face and the two palms); although the outcomes of his ideas require more discu...

to the field of journalism. The theme that connects the four memoirs as manifestos is a public critique of a " repressive system ... as reflected by the corporate newsroom. " By applying Sidonie Smith's description of manifesto as " a proof, a piece of evidence, a public declaration or proclamation ... for the purpose of announcing past actions and explaining the reasons or motives for actions ...

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of complications of a stroke caused by an aneurism in his head. Ray was the first inventor of Algorithmic Information Theory which deals with the shortest effective description length of objects and is commonly designated by the term " Kolmogorov complexity. " In the 1950s Solomonoff was one of the first researchers to treat probabilistic grammars and the associated...