INTERVIEW: Daniel Snowman talks to Margaret MacMillan

Finding memory : Interview with Daniel L . Schacter

r e s u m e n En esta entrevista se presenta un diálogo con comentarios con el Dr. Daniel L. Schacter, en el cual tratamos de tener la oportunidad de aprender sobre sus hallazgos, sus estudios actuales y sus implicaciones para la memoria y la cognición. El Dr. Schacter es actualmente profesor William R. Kenan Jr. de psicología en la Universidad de Harvard. Con más de 40 años de experiencia prof...

Margaret McCartney: Medical school interview courses are needless and unfair.

What preparation did you do for your medical school interview? I went to an open evening with a few lectures for prospective students. We heard how hard it was to get in, how high the attrition rate was. Some people just weren’t cut out for it. I was dimly aware of private schools but hadn’t realised how many there were, how confident their progeny were, or how many badges for prefect, head boy...

The future is longer than the past : An Interview with Margaret

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has been working on a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world: RDA. This standard is scheduled to be released at the end of November 2009. RDA will provide a flexible framework for describing all resources analog and digital, i. e. data that is readily adaptable to new and emerging database structures an...

ISWC 2013 — Wearables Are Here to Stay Daniel Roggen , Daniel

Hot toPICS In numbers, ISWC was a tremendous success. We received 101 submissions— the largest number in the last eight years—making for a selective 23 percent acceptance rate for oral presentations. Furthermore, ISWC was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, which merged the UbiComp and Pervasive conferences. (See this issue’s Conferences ...

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