How I Got That Name

How the No-Cloning Theorem Got its Name

I was the referee who approved the publication of Nick Herbert’s FLASH paper, knowing perfectly well that it was wrong. I explain why my decision was the correct one, and I briefly review the progress to which it led. The no-cloning theorem [1, 2] is of fundamental importance in quantum theory. It asserts that no quantum amplifier can duplicate accurately two or more nonorthogonal quantum state...

Neurons that Remember How We Got There

In this issue of Neuron, Daie et al. (2015) show that the eye velocity-to-position neural integrator not only encodes the position, but also how it was reached. Representing content and context in the same neuronal population may form a general coding principle.

How I got over the Christmas flu.

How microbial proteomics got started.

Publication in 1975 by Patrick O'Farrell of a procedure to separate the proteins of Escherichia coli in a two-dimensional array on polyacrylamide gels marked the birth of the field now called proteomics. Although O'Farrell's contribution was soon to have wide ranging effects on research in many fields, the initial impact was greatest in the arena of whole cell physiology. Refinements and amplif...

"I Can Name that Bayesian Network in Two Matrixes!"

The traditional approach to building Bayesian networks is to build the graphical structure using a graphical editor and then add probabilities using a separate spreadsheet for each node. This can make it difficult for a design team to get an impression of the total evidence provided by an assessment, especially if the Bayesian network is split into many fragments to make it more manageable. Usi...