Eulogy for Wolfgang Neise

Eulogy for the clinical research center.

The extramural General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) program has been funded for more than 50 years, first by the National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and more recently as part of the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) program through the newly formed National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (NCATS). The GCRCs represent the federally funded laboratories that employ ...

Eulogy for the Metabolic Clinical Investigator?

A recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Investigation by Nathan et al. (1) dwelt on the decision to cease direct National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of Clinical Research Centers (CRCs). As the authors rightly point out, the lack of extramural support for the CRC infrastructure will doom this valuable resource for human research at academic institutions without the wherewithal to s...

Eulogy for Kristian Fauchald (1 July 1935 – 4 April 2015).

Wolfgang Wahlster

In face-to-face conversation humans frequently use deictic gestures parallel to verbal descriptions for referent identification. Such a multimodal form of communication is of great importance for intelligent interfaces, because it simplifies and speeds up reference to objects in a visual context. Natural pointing behavior is very flexible, but possibly ambiguous or vague, so that without a care...

Misconduct WOLFGANG

Internet and CD-ROMs are now important sources of scientific research. Obviously, these computerized tools complement and supplement libraries. For some they seem to replace libraries, and web presentations of published works are used as seemingly infinite resource of texts for term papers, examination work and even research papers. There is evidence that the use of modern information technolog...