Reflections on the past 25 years

Reflections on 25+ years of knowledge acquisition

In this paper I give a short reflection on Knowledge Acquisition as a subfield of AI and Knowledge Engineering over the last 25 years or so. My major message is that knowledge modeling is an underrated but still important method to reduce the complexity problems that arise in constructing knowledge-based applications. Scale -as apparent in the Semantic Webis an other important parameter in rece...

Visual attention: The past 25 years

This review focuses on covert attention and how it alters early vision. I explain why attention is considered a selective process, the constructs of covert attention, spatial endogenous and exogenous attention, and feature-based attention. I explain how in the last 25 years research on attention has characterized the effects of covert attention on spatial filters and how attention influences th...

Numbers and language: What’s new in the past 25 years?

Ethics in Obstetric Ultrasound: The Past 25 Years in Perspective

Ethics is an essential component of obstetric ultrasound, an area in which the authors have collaborated for the past 25 years. The authors describe their collaboration. They then present one of the core ethical concepts of obstetric ultrasound: The ethical concept of the fetus as a patient. Next, they present one of the clearest clinical applications of ethics to obstetric ultrasound: Autonomy...

Exponential advances in Forest Genetics: the past 25 years and the next 25 weeks

A history of Forest Biotechnology will be briefly reviewed, from the first cloned tree gene, transgenic trees, DNA markers, genetic maps, QTLs, marker assisted breeding to genome sequencing. Perspectives of newer methods and their applications will be discussed, including integration of genetics and RNA-seq, metabolomics, and proteomics. New applications may be anticipated or expected for breed...