Ralph Linton 1893-1953

Ralph Linton 1893-1953

Professor Ralph Linton, Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale since 1946 and one of the leading cultural anthropologists of this country, died on 24 December 1953 of a coronary attack. He had been a close friend and a great admirer of the chairman of his department, Wendell Bennett, who was so tragically drowned last September. The premature deaths of these two national leaders who were al...

Arthur Linton Corbin

jonathan linton, nicholas vonortas

Citation: Linton J., Vonortas N. (2015) From Research Project to Research Portfolio: Meeting Scale and Complexity. Foresight-Russia, vol. 9, no 2, pp. 38–43. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459x.2015.2.38.43 DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2015.2.38.43 Nicholas Vonortas — Professor, George Washington University, United States; São Paulo Excellence Chair, Department of Science and Technology Policy, State University...

Ralph Bergmann

An assumption commonly unchallenged in Social Media isthat its open nature leads to a representative view of the world. Thereare (at least) two issues with this assumption. The first issue is that suchrepresentativeness may be harmful and may contradict social principles,e.g. non-discrimination against women or minorities. The second issue isthat algorithms that work on such...

Ralph Adolphs

Ralph Adolphs is Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Master’s in Biology from Stanford University, and his PhD in neurobiology from Caltech working with Mark Konishi on the auditory system of the barn owl. His post-doc was with Antonio Damasio at the Universi...