William Vincent Lucas

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

Vincent Walsh

Vincent Walsh is Professor of Human Brain Research at University College London. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow for 10 years and now leads the Visual Cognition Group in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN). His interests span visual perception, learning, time, space and number processing and synaesthesia. He engages widely in public communication projects and is a re...

Vincent Yeung

Vincent Laudet

writing system that we know to be a derived one. This early branching point is thus the equivalent of speciation in biological evolution. The separate writing systems of these neighbouring regions must have been mutually incomprehensible. Over a short time span — three centuries at most, but probably much less — the proto-Elamite script spread across Iran, offering a prime example of cultural d...

Vincent Larivière

Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000-2007 period this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students contribute to about a third of the publication output of the province, with doctoral students in the natural and medical sciences being present in a higher proportion of papers p...