A double anniversary

Our Double Anniversary

In June of 1952, ten years before the founding of the Association, the first meeting ever held on computational linguistics took place. This meeting, the succeeding ten years, and the first year o f t h e A s s o c i a t i o n a r e d i s c u s s e d . Some t h o u g h t s a r e o f f e r e d as t o w h a t t h e f u t u r e may b r i n g .

A double diamond anniversary-Kyshtym and Windscale: the nuclear accidents of 1957.

Happy Anniversary!

On this day in 1987, shares of Procter & Gamble were a tad weak, trading down 23 1/4 to 61. Philip Morris was off 15 1/8 at 87 1/2, Disney fell 19 1/8 to 46 and shares of Dupont were also under pressure, falling 18 1/2 to 80. The DJIA dropped 508 on volume of 605 million shares. The (perhaps apocryphal) story is told that Fed Chairman Greenspan -not wishing to unsettle jittery markets by alteri...

Anniversary uptake

Watson, who realised at once that it provided crucial evidence for the double helix. “But science is not supposed to be kept in bags, any more than cats,” Wilkins responded. His sombre mien contrasted sadly with the story of robust commercialisation which came later. Gosling’s view was that “Rosy would have been appalled to learn that they had taken quite so much detail of her current work and ...

Introductory editorial to 30th anniversary edition

We are highly privileged to write this editorial at such a significant moment for the Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MJIRI) as this journal celebrates its 30- year tradition as an accessible source of scholarly articles on the basic and clinical medical sciences, rigorously edited, and progressive.   The MJIRI was launched by Iran National Center for Scientific Research ...