50-25-10 Years Ago: A Review of EMC Society Newsletters

Childhood and Society a Hundred Years Ago

Great Ormond Street 50 years ago.

I was appointed house physician at The Hospital for Sick Children in 1937. In retrospect I can see that I was there at a very particular time in the hospital's history, because 1937 was to mark the end of an era. A decade or so before, the fame of Great Ormond Street had depended on a generation of physicians of the calibre of Still, Garrod, Batten, and Poynton. But the staffing of the hospital...

25 Years Ago: the First Asynchronous Microprocessor

Twenty-five years ago, in December 1988, my research group at Caltech submitted the world’s first asynchronous (“clockless”) microprocessor design for fabrication to MOSIS. We received the chips in early 1989; testing started in February 1989. The chips were found fully functional on first silicon. The results were presented at the Decennial Caltech VLSI Conference in March of the same year. Th...

Laryngeal cancer today compared to a study 50 years ago.

Francis L. McNelis MD, FACS, and Peter T. Nigri MD, FACS  the aMerIcan cOMMIttee fOr cancer Staging and End Result Reporting (AJC) was organized in 1959. In 1962 they published a brochure, Clinical Staging of Cancer of the Larynx. This was the origin of the TNM System of staging according to the anatomic site. The intent of this system of classification was to use it in the comparison of survi...

Stone's views of 25 years ago have now shifted incrementally.

Twenty-five years ago, a major article by Professor Alan Stone on ethics in forensic psychiatry was published. It caused reverberations on a national scale. After the seismic shocks that he had provoked settled down, several thoughtful forensic psychiatrists set out to take serious stock of his critique and to articulate ways in which corrective actions could be taken. Indeed, slightly more tha...