ALAN CHURCHILL WOODS, 1889 1963

Peer Review and Churchill

I’ve written a large number of articles over the last forty years, but rather few research papers going through the peer review or refereeing process. One of them came to mind when I read a paper we’re publishing in the current issue, by Claudiu Heteliu and others, on possible ‘coercive citation’—if that’s an unfamiliar expression [1], it will become clear soon... One of the reviewers of my pap...

Encounters with Winston Churchill.

W Russell Brain (1895-1966) was two weeks short of his fifty-fourth birthday when he first saw Winston Churchill in consultation at the request of Lord Moran' on 5 October 1949. Russell Brain was a consultant physician at the (then) London Hospital and the Maida Vale Hospital For Nervous Diseases. He earned his living primarily from his private practice in Harley Street as a consultant neurolog...

Winston Churchill and peer review

Welcome to the second edition of Clinical Ophthalmology. Once again, this edition refl ects the diversity of ophthalmology from basic science to state of the art clinical care. Colleagues in other specialties often ask me how I can maintain my interest in such a 'small' speciality but those of us who deal with the eye and its diseases, rather than knowing everything, are eternally humbled by ho...

Recent Advances in Pathology (Churchill)

Deep Woods

Recent theoretical studies indicate that deep architectures [4, 2] are needed to efficiently model complex distributions and to achieve better generalization performance on challenging recognition tasks. The belief that additional levels of functional composition will yield increased representational and modeling power is not new [13, 9, 16]. In practice, learning in deep architectures had prov...