SESSION 4A PAPER 4

Dr. Francois Paycha, born at Narbonne, studied medicine at the University of Montpellier. His first researches were concerned with the embryology of the eye, later using the distribution of radioactive phosphorus P32 to study the structure of the tissues and for the detection of tumours. He was then appointed to the National Centre of Scientific Research. While in charge of a hospital clinic, he noted the considerable differences in the diagnoses of conscientious and knowledgeable practitioners and those advanced by the hospital. In view of the special need for exact diagnosis in medicine he made a study of the causes of these differences. After theoretical research, he made the first "Medical Memory' in 1953 with the help of Bull and later of I.B.M. He studied the structure of a three-symbol logic which is applicable to medical' problems and in general. After a year in the service of Prof. G. E. Jayle, he abandoned pure research and entered industry. SUMMARY I am going to analyse ...