The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http://www.iscb. org) annually recognizes a senior scientist for his or her outstanding achievements. The ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award honors a leader in the field of computational biology for his or her significant contributions to the community through research, service, and education. Dr. Eugene ‘‘Gene’’ Myers of t...

The International Society for Computational Biology ( ISCB) recognizes an established scientist each year with the Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award for significant contributions he or she has made to the field. This award honors scientists who have contributed to the advancement of computational biology and bioinformatics through their research, service, and education work. Pavel Pevz...

1 Laughing and yelling, a white fourth-grader named Garrett Tallinger splashes around in the swimming pool in the backyard of his four-bedroom home in the suburbs on a late spring afternoon. As on most evenings, after a quick dinner his father drives him to soccer practice. This is only one of Garrett's many activities. His brother has a baseball game at a different location. There are evenings...

In the last years, there is a greater interest in systems of multiple autonomous robots for the accomplishment of cooperative tasks. This fact has motivated the implementation of a distributed architecture for a team of heterogeneous mobile robots. Such architecture must have the capacity to allow to the team of robots the accomplishment of cooperative tasks; the proposed solution consist of a ...