Biochemistry and neuroscience: the twain need to meet

How the twain do meet

Writing about democracy, Walt Whitman said, “It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.” The word “diversity”— or the term “cultural diversity”—also has a history in Virginia that has yet to be enacted or actualized in some meaningful way. Clearly, a relationship between these two pieces of unfinished business exists, a relationsh...

From Folksologies to Ontologies: How the Twain Meet

Ontologies are instruments for capturing and using formal semantics, and are often the result of a "central committee controlled" style of working. A new trend on the Web is the increasing popularity of folksologies in the form of social bookmarking sites. Folksologies provide informal semantics and can be created and adopted by anybody anytime anywhere on the Internet. Shared meaning in a folk...

The brain and the heart: the twain meet.

A little more than a decade ago, we formed a group— comprised of both cardiologists and psychologists—to study post-myocardial infarction (MI) depression, stimulated by the paucity of information on the care of patients with this condition at the time and by the seminal work of Frasure-Smith et al. reporting a link between depression and increased mortality after MI. When we discussed this topi...

Incidence- and prevalence-based SMPH: making the twain meet

AI and Software Engineering: Will the Twain Ever Meet?

This session will explore the reasons for the lack of impact in four important areas in which AI has been expected to significantly affect real world Software Engineering. The panelists, each representing one of these areas, will respond to the conjecture that these failures rest upon a common cause reliance on isolationist technology and approaches, rather than upon creating additive technolog...