Roscoe Pound (1870-1964), American jurist and botanist, furthered the development of sociological jurisprudence, which significantly altered American legal thought. Roscoe Pound was born at Lincoln, Nebr., on Oct. 27, 1870, the son of a judge. After...

Early twentieth-century Progressivist legal scholar Roscoe Pound hoped to integrate criminal jurisprudence with ideas from the behavioral and social sciences, as well as from moral philosophy. Pound sought to clarify the murky issues surrounding penology, criminal justice, jury trial, free will, and personal responsibility....

Formerly A theoretical physicist, Roscoe Giles, 49 and a Boston University professor of electrical and computer engineering, is a computing pioneer and an advocate for minorities in science. What is supercomputing? Computer power is doubling roughly every 18 months, and what was a...