A forward look

ILP: A Short Look Back and a Longer Look Forward

Inductive logic programming (ILP) is built on a foundation laid by research in machine learning and computational logic. Armed with this strong foundation, ILP has been applied to important and interesting problems in the life sciences, engineering and the arts. This paper begins by briefly reviewing some example applications, in order to illustrate the benefits of ILP. In turn, the application...

Neural circuits look forward.

A fundamental step in linking the activity of individual neurons to circuits and animal behavior is to identify their patterns of connectivity. Traditional methods in electrophysiology and microscopy, although powerful, are limited to addressing only a neuron’s immediate neighbors (1). A further limitation of these methods is that this can be addressed only in a piecemeal manner, whereby just a...

Railroad-Highway Grade Crossings A Look Forward

The Committee on Railroad-Highway Grade Crossings is concerned with the safety and other affected characteristics (including economic considerations, traffic flow and delay, and countermeasures) of both highway and rail traffic at points where they intersect at grade, including the proximate surrounding environment and rail transit facilities. This is a white paper on the state of the art and t...

A look forward: arrows in our quiver.

(Fam Med 2006;38(5):314-5.) In my final presidential column, I’ll describe resources that family medicine teachers can use to meet the challenges ahead. We must not underestimate the urgency of our situation, nor our need to make strategic choices and act energetically. At the same time let’s remember—and draw upon—our full quiver of arrows. By “arrows” I mean habits of mind, action plans, and ...

New Changes for JMBE: A Look Forward