Joseph Murdoch Ritchie. 10 June 1925 — 9 July 2008

Joshua Lederberg 1925–2008

It is painful to start writing an article destined to be an Obituary for a dear friend and a great scientist. To describe Joshua Lederberg as a " polymath " would be an enormous understatement. He made seminal contributions to the fields of microbiology and molecular biology and also to artificial intelligence, organic chemistry, exobiology, and many other disciplines. Joshua Lederberg was born...

Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008)

Lederberg’s many and varied contributions, particularly to the diverse sciences he mastered and bridged, have been well documented, so the focus here is on his contributions to computing. His interest in computing, he told me, started with his experience programming a card reader to do computations in high school. Although his lifelong fascination with programming machines to help us think was ...

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Cancer Immunity (10 July 2008) Vol. 8, p. 12

We have previously reported that heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) vaccination induced natural killer (NK) cell activity in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). In this study, HSP70 of both autologous and allogeneic origin was found to stimulate IFN-γ production from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of CML patients, as well as of normal subjects. Further investigations demonstrated t...

Learning Technology Newsletter, Vol. 10, Issue 3, July 2008

Requirements for eLearning platforms have usually focused on the learners’ needs. However, very little studies analyze the required support from the teachers’ perspective, especially when the teachers have one or more disabilities. I have analyzed the problems disabled teachers face at the workplace and identified ten requirements for eLearning platforms to overcome them. Introduction Some admi...