Are You Perceived As An Expert? Says Who?

Who says you cannot get published?

O ne cannot go past the achievements of the winners of the Ig Nobel awards when it comes to service to medicine and science. The Igs are intended to celebrate unusual and imaginative research and are awarded annually by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The aim is to make people think and laugh, and along the way it may spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and t...

Who says teaching hospitals are thriving?

Gerard Anderson, et al., in a recent commentary published in Health Affairs (March/April 1999), concluded that "despite dire predictions, America's teaching hospitals appear to be thriving".' This outdated conclusion, based largely on data from 1995, is dangerously optimistic and belies mounting evidence that documents the significant financial stress now facing teaching hospitals around the co...

Who are you?

Who Are You?

M any security mechanisms, including authorization, depend on the proper handling of identity, but it’s hard to get right. To understand why, we must examine, fundamentally, what identity is. One traditional answer is that an identity is a name. That’s unsatisfactory, for several reasons. First, a name points to an object—an entity—but is not itself that object. Second, authentication is needed...

Who Are You?

Most automatic recognition systems are focused on recognizing, given a single mug-shot of an individual, any new image of that individual. Most verification systems are designed to authenticate an identity provided by the user. However, the previous work rarely focus on the problem of detecting when a new individual, i.e. an unknown one, is present. The goal of the work presented in this paper ...