LETTER FROM MR. WATSON.

'Mr. Watson-Come Here' A New Way to Share Data.

Human behavior is a mystery. Sometimes we don’t even know ourselves why we do things. But IBM’s Watson Health thinks it can put its big-brain cognitive thinking cap on and figure us out, as revealed in the data fingerprints we leave behind when we enter the health care labyrinth. IBM Watson Health has been growing fast, as parent IBM patches new health care analytics companies into the entity i...

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Response to Mr. Lee's letter to the editor.

Mr Lee implies we did not thoroughly investigate his product. In fact, our article, “Evaluation of Commercially Available Traction Splints for Battlefield Use,” also cited Auerbach et al.’s 1984 research in which the RS was deemed superior to the Thomas splint. We also were aware of the advertised internal memoranda by combat medic instructors from the Army Medical Department Center & School in...

The virtues of the cortex in 1680: a letter from Charles Goodall to Mr. H.

CHARLES GOODALL (1642-1712) devoted his career to the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians of London and became its most articulate defender against attacks of seventeenth-century empirics and chemists.' In his The College of Physicians vindicated ...2 of 1676 he assailed the apothecary-empirics, particularly Adrian Huyberts for misrepresenting College licensing policies and the achieveme...

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Letter from the President

I have just come back from attending ECMI 2002 in Latvia. About 150 people took part in the conference which was held in the delightful resort town of Jurmala, about 20km south of Riga. The invited speakers covered a wide range of topics and all gave interesting talks as did the minisymposium speakers and the other contributors. The participants enjoyed the weather and surroundings in Jurmala a...