Morris Slavin (1913-2006)

Special Feature: Presentation of the 2006 Morris F. Collen Award to Edward H. (Ted) Shortliffe

The American College of Medical Informatics is an honorary society established to recognize those who have made sustained contributions to the field. Its highest award, for lifetime achievement and contributions to the discipline now known more inclusively as biomedical informatics, is the Morris F. Collen Award. Dr. Collen’s own efforts as a pioneer in the field stand as the embodiment of crea...

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Silvio Ionta,* Roberto Martuzzi, Roy Salomon, and Olaf Blanke Center for Neuroprosthetics, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; and Department of Neurology, University Ho...

Medical Annual, 1913

been introduced. Every article is up-to-date and concise, and the list of contributors is as guarantee of good work. The volume is a clearly printed and as well illustrated as ever, but is printed on fine thin paper, so that the bulk of the book is reduced. The general index is particularly well done, and there are no less than 42 plates and 200 other illustrations. A useful glossary of new ter...

The Morris Hansen Lecture 2006 Statistical Perspectives on Spatial Social Science

Recent commentators have drawn attention to what appears to be a “spatial turn” in several disciplines, including some of the social sciences, driven in part by advances in the geographic information technologies – geographic information systems, the Global Positioning System, and satellite remote sensing – and in part by an increasing emphasis on place-based analysis and policy formulation. It...

Rufus Cole, 1913