BACKGROUND: Google Wave was touted as the next big communication tool-combining e-mail, social networking, and chat within a single "wave"-with the potential to create a new world for collaboration. Information professionals who are knowledgeable of this tool and its capabilities could become uniquely situated to use it, evaluate it, and teach it. This seemed especially true for those working w...

Using a question and answer format we describe important aspects of using genomic technologies in cancer research. The main challenges are not managing the mass of data, but rather the design, analysis, and accurate reporting of studies that result in increased biological knowledge and medical utility. Many analysis issues address the use of expression microarrays but are also applicable to oth...

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, International Center for Climate and Environment Science (ICCES), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, ...

* Distributed System Design Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-2 Namiki, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8564 Japan e-mail: [email protected] ** Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuda M...

In the dawn of computer science and the eve of neuroscience we participate in rebirth of neuroscience due to new technology that allows us to deeply and precisely explore whole new world that dwells in our brains. This review paper is merely insight to what is currently ongoing research in the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience, computer science, and cognitive science.

LIMING HE†‡ and ZHANQING LI*†§ †Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA ‡Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G3 §State Laboratory of Earth Surface Process and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Be...