In 1994, a total of 2,074 people in Canada were diagnosed with tuberculosis, a rate of 7.1 cases per 100,000 population. The same year, tuberculosis and its late effects caused 150 deaths-just over one in every 1,400 deaths. Although tuberculosis is no longer a major health problem in Canada or a leading cause of death, some groups are particularly susceptible to the disease: Aboriginal people,...

The cost of state-of-the-art supercomputing resources makes each individual purchase an expensive and, in many cases, lengthy process. Often each candidate architecture will need to be benchmarked using a variety of tools to assess potential performance. However, benchmarking alone often provides only limited insight into the potential scalability and suitability of each architecture for procur...

It is appropriate that this lecture is being given in Cambridge because Marjory Stephenson spent most of her life here and indeed was born only ten miles away in Bunvell. However, she taught for a while in London at Unix ersity College and King’s College of Household Science. Her connection with the latter College is of particular interest to me because King’s College of Household Science event...

OccamÕs Razor is widely employed in machine learning to select between classifiers with equal empirical support. This paper presents the theorem of decreasing inductive power: that, all other things being equal, if two classifiers a and b cover identical cases from the training set and a is a generalisation of b, a has higher probability than b of misclassifying a previously unsighted case. Thi...