Paul S. Katz is a neurophysiologist known for his studies of neuromodulatory synapses in invertebrate neural circuits. Katz’s interest in neurobiology began as an undergraduate at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. He did his graduate work at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he identified and studied serotonergic neurons in the stomatogastric ganglion of crabs. He was ...

Paul Larson and Erich Neuhold are previous TCDE chairs and have served TCDE for many years revitalizing its activities. Their valuable experience will be greatly appreciated for promoting TCDE and for serving its members. David Lomet, a previous TCDE chair, has been Chief Editor of Data Engineering Bulletin since 1992. It is his leadership that has been at the heart of the success of IEEE Data ...

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

On September 2, 2015, the image of three-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach sparked an international effort to aid refugees. Donations to charitable organizations surged, dwarfing the assistance to refugees since the violence in Syria began in 2011. Kurdi, however, was not the only person to drown that day in the Aegean Sea: Both his five-year-old brother and h...

Paul Harvey is head of the Zoology Department at the University of Oxford and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London, which runs field conservation programmes around the world, as well as the Institute of Zoology, London Zoo, and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. An evolutionary biologist with interests in ecology and behaviour, he has pioneered the use of crosstaxonomic analyses to reveal com...

Research Assistant Professor, Genetics and Neurodevelopment, The Rockefeller University, 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow/Res. Associate, Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics, The Rockefeller University, 2004 Ph.D., Integrated program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1995 B.A. Biochemistry,U...

The problem is to identify a probability associated with a set of natural numbers, given an infinite data sequence of elements from the set. If the given sequence is drawn i.i.d. and the probability mass function involved (the target) belongs to a computably enumerable (c.e.) or co-computably enumerable (co-c.e.) set of computable probability mass functions, then there is an algorithm to almost...

In this video Q&A, we talk to Paul Wicks about the emergence of participant-led research, and discuss how this field may be expected to develop in the near future, particularly with regard to personalized medicine.

An increasing number of published accounts (e.g., Cress and Kimmerle 2008; Kane and Fichman 2009; Wagner and Majchrzak 2007; Yates et al. 2010) describe Wikis and their impact on knowledge aggregation from many contributors. In this appendix, we extend these accounts to explain the specific mechanisms that cause Wiki-based efforts to succeed in the creation and maintenance of knowledge assets w...

Accuracy in the philosophical theory of rationality demands that we recognize particular beliefs as arising within the context of larger units, the cultural or conceptual schemes, patterns, or practices, involvement in which itself provides standards and grounds for their rational evaluation. At the same time, though, a satisfactory account of rationality cannot hold the standards, values, or c...