Our Silver Anniversary

Our diamond birthday anniversary.

G ENETICS is 75 years old. Volume 1, number 1 was dated January, 1916 and with this issue the journal begins its 76th year. At this ripe age, the journal shows none of the telltale signs of senescence; it is still in the growth phase. Although the science of genetics has changed enormously-has indeed been revolutionized-the important features of GENETICS have remained intact. It is still, as it...

Our Double Anniversary

In June of 1952, ten years before the founding of the Association, the first meeting ever held on computational linguistics took place. This meeting, the succeeding ten years, and the first year o f t h e A s s o c i a t i o n a r e d i s c u s s e d . Some t h o u g h t s a r e o f f e r e d as t o w h a t t h e f u t u r e may b r i n g .

Happy Silver Anniversary, AI!

Happy Silver Anniversary, Artificial Intelligence! Twenty-five years is not long in the history of a science—long enough to achieve, short enough to remember. Your esteemed founders are still around—vigorous, not so young anymore. Out of cybernetics you came, and information-theoretic psychology. You were born in the early days of modern computing, on hot, bulky hardware with names few now reme...

Celebrating our 20th digital anniversary.

In 1997, 6 years after the World Wide Web became accessible to the public, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences launched its website, heralding our entry into the Internet age and the expeditious dissemination of our scientific content worldwide (see Infographic). Toward the end of the last millennium, we redesigned the website to improve user experience and rebranded the journal...

The silver anniversary of the Chernobyl accident