Lauter, Paul (2020), Our Sixties: An Activist’s History

Nineteen Sixties History of Data Base Management

Data base management evolved during the sixties and seventies. The evolution period was protracted. Many driving forces impacted the evolution and it is the aim of this paper to analyze these driving forces (some technical and some political) and to discuss the impact of each. The driving forces are identified as follows: higher level languages, generalization of software, non-procedural approa...

Activists warn: don't fall victim to our HIV successes.

A Toast to Our History

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is adapted from the address Ms. Kruger delivered as the recipient of the American Diabetes Association's Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award for 2017. She delivered the address in June 2017 at the Association's 77th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in San Diego, Calif. A webcast of the speech can be viewed on ADA's DiabetesPro website at https://professional...

A revival of Paul Dudley White: An overview of present medical practice and of our society.

Paul D. White was born in Roxbury, Mass, on June 6, 1886. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911 and became a House Officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) the same year. An important landmark in his life was his trip to London, where he studied under Sir Thomas Lewis in 1913. He returned to the MGH in 1914. He became an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School in ...

What happened in the sixties?

In general history and popular culture, the long 1960s, a period roughly beginning in the mid-1950s and ending in the mid-1970s, has been held to be a period of change. This paper offers a model which captures something of the long 1960s as a period of ‘sea change’ resulting from the interference of three waves. Wave One was an institutional dynamic that drew out experts from closed and hidden ...