I ’ve been on the CiSE editorial board since the magazine was founded by George Cybenko, roughly 18 years ago. I’ve guest edited multiple special issues for CiSE (including this one) over that span, and I’ve served as an associate editor in chief for about 10 years. It’s a great privilege and honor to carry on the editorial work and continue serving the community as EIC for the next few years. ...

I organized this special theme issue to illustrate ways in which research in the physical and life sciences is stimulated by computational science, and conversely. The t it le—Crosstalk—is meant to epitomize such reciprocal exchanges. This magazine was originally created to facilitate this cross-fert i l izat ion, as was characterized by George Cybenko, CiSE ’s first editor in chief. In his int...

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I will describe von Neumann’s elegant idea for sampling from the exponential distribution, Forsythe’s generalization for sampling from a probability distribution whose density has the form exp(−G(x)), where G(x) is easy to compute (e.g. a polynomial), and my refinement of these ideas to give an efficient algorithm for generating pseudo-random numbers with a normal distribution. Later developmen...

those without environmental insults or behavioural problems, as suggested in Drs Newell and Green's algorithm, diagnoses would have been missed. The three studies quoted were performed more than 10 years ago. Subsequent refinements in techniques of chromosome analysis allow identification of minor chromosome abnormalities that might previously not have been recognised-for example, in our series...