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Interview of Charles Bigelow by Yue Wang, conducted in 2012. Y: In this interview we are very lucky to have Charles Bigelow with us. Professor Bigelow is a type historian, educator, and designer. With his design partner, Kris Holmes, he created the Lucida family of fonts used in the human-computer interfaces of Apple Macintosh OS X, Microsoft Windows, Bell Labs Plan 9, the Java Developer Kit, a...

Sullivan has a keen sensitivity to the needs, expectations, and anxieties of the patient, and this is used by him to explore the whole field of interpersonal relationships, and to enable the patient to develop his more healthy features. There is no coercion, and the interpersonal relationships, between Sullivan and his patients are rather like those of a good gardener and his plants. The garden...

flags carried in front of them and argued that things should go slower. We shall be looking to see that the Reforms deliver a more cost-effective health service without in any way compromising the traditionally very high standards of medical care we have had in this country. Indeed we would expect the comprehensive introduction of medical audit to improve standards of care still further and I a...

an atmosphere not devoid of formality. It is asserted that the interviewer's task is to introduce suitable topics of conversation and to evoke the candidate's " attitudes Judgment is then based on the reactions displayed by the candidate. The formation of a first impression, the modification of this picture and the final judgment resulting in a " homunculus "-like representation of the candidat...

We know that, across the world, socioeconomic status is a powerful predictor of health. In fact, it’s a more powerful predictor of health than genetics or medical care or cigarette smoking. Now, why is that important to our discussion of race? It’s very important because, on average, in our society, socioeconomic status differs by race. So, on average, Blacks have lower levels of income, lower ...

LPH: As a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, I had the opportunity to take classes from Chris Sims and Tom Sargent. Both emphasized the idea that dynamic econometric models should be viewed as restrictions on stochastic processes. Sims’ classroom development of large sample econometrics broke with the more conventional view of the time of focusing on models with exogenous regresso...

& Martha Farah obtained undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Her work spans many topics within cognitive neuroscience, including visual ...