Fred J Boyd Award 2016 - Oration

Boyd, Robert and Richerson, Peter J

This book is a must-have for philosophers of psychology, philosophers of biology, philosophers of the social sciences, and, more generally, anybody who is interested in the evolution of mind and behavior. The anthropologists Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson have collected twenty of their most important articles written between 1987 and 2003. This collection is an excellent initiative, since thes...

2016 Terasima Award

The Ackermann Award 2016

The Ackermann Award is the EACSL Outstanding Dissertation Award for Logic in Computer Science. It is presented during the annual conference of the EACSL (CSL’xx). This contribution reports on the 2016 edition of the award. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.3 Logics and Meanings of Programs, F.4 Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Jean-Laurent Casanova honored with the 2016 ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award.

Last year, Jean-Laurent Casanova published a landmark article in Science demonstrating that a child had life-threatening influenza because of genetic loss of interferon regulatory factor 7 (1). This paper provided the first evidence that severe influenza could be due to mutations in genes encoding factors that are specifically required for responding to influenza infection rather than mutations...

Announcing the winner of the John J. Sciarra IJGO Prize Paper Award for 2016.

The editors of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (IJGO) are pleased to announce the winner of the prize paper award for the best clinical research paper from a low- or middle-income country published in the IJGO during 2014. The winning paper is: Dan K. Kaye, Othman Kakaire, Annettee Nakimuli, Scovia N. Mbalinda,Michael O. Osinde, Nelson Kakande. Survivors' understanding of...