GILMAN HALL NAMED HISTORIC LANDMARK

Brookhaven Lab named historic chemical landmark.

Subset Selection for Landmark Modern and Historic Images

An automatic mechanism for the selection of image subset of modern and historic images out of a landmark large image set collected from the internet is designed in this paper. This selection depends on the extraction of dominant features using Gabor filtering. These features are selected carefully from a preliminary image set and fed into a neural network as a training set. The mechanism collec...

An Open Corpus for Named Entity Recognition in Historic Newspapers

The availability of openly available textual datasets (“corpora”) with highly accurate manual annotations (“gold standard”) of named entities (e.g. persons, locations, organizations, etc.) is crucial in the training and evaluation of named entity recognition systems. Currently there are only few such datasets available on the web, and even less for texts containing historical spelling variation...

Francis Gilman Blake 1887-1952

Alfred Goodman Gilman (1941–2015)

On December 23, 2015, Alfred Goodman Gilman died peacefully at home after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Though Al was one of the great scientific minds of the past 50 years and is best known for his discovery of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins), anyone who trained or worked closely with Al knew him as much more than that. His greatness extended equally to scie...