My liberation through science

My science pilgrimage.

Most scientists can point to several important milestones in their careers. Looking back on my journey through the realm of science, I find there have been five important turning points. The first was the period from 1962 to 1965 that I spent as a Fulbright Research Associate at Michigan State University (MSU). In the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at Kyoto University I had been studying ...

My Science Tutor - Learning Science with a Conversational Virtual Tutor

This paper presents a conversational, multimedia, virtual science tutor for elementary school students. It is built using state of the art speech recognition and spoken language understanding technology. This virtual science tutor is unique in that it elicits self-explanations from students for various science phenomena by engaging them in spoken dialogs and guided by illustrations, animations ...

I'll Take My Science Spicy, Please.

T he Task by William Cowper was published in 1785. This blank verse poem in 6 books helped spark the Romantic era, commented on social issues to encourage change and influenced English authors, notably Jane Austen. The Task still resonates in modern times with Cowper’s catchphrase “variety is the very spice of life,” reminding us to embrace and diversify our perspective through new experiences ...

My contributions to science and society.

Not too many of my scientific colleagues have lived, as I have, through the birth pangs of a new state or felt the need to throw themselves into a lifestyle that is critical for their own survival and their nation’s future. If this sounds dramatic, it is no more and no less than what it was like to be a scientist in the emerging and newly established State of Israel for the larger part of the 2...

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