Moving forward, slowly but surely

Together, Slowly but Surely

That objective reference is necessary for formation of reliable beliefs about the external world is almost axiomatic. However, Condorcet (1785) suggested that purely subjective information--if shared and combined via social interaction--is enough for accurate understanding of the external world. We asked if social interaction and objective reference contribute differently to the formation and b...

Slowly but Surely: Adverbs Support Verb Learning in 2-Year-Olds.

To acquire the meanings of verbs, toddlers make use of the surrounding linguistic information. For example, two-year-olds successfully acquire novel transitive verbs that appear in semantically rich frames containing content nouns ("The boy is gonna pilk a balloon"). But, they have difficulty with pronominal frames ("He is gonna pilk it") (Arunachalam & Waxman, 2010). We hypothesized that adver...

Hospitals scramble to meet deadlines for adopting electronic health records: pharmacy systems will be updated slowly but surely.

tiatives system. Stephen Moore, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, states that perhaps only two or three of his hospitals will qualify for incentives in 2011. He points out that any hospital whose first year of qualification is 2013 can still qualify for a full incentive payment. Those facilities that qualify in 2014 receive diminished payments through 2016. Dr. Moore expects ...

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.