Playwright protégés at St John’s College, Oxford: dramatic approaches to networking under Buckeridge, Laud and Juxon

Imperial College and Johns Hopkins University at TRECVID

We describe our experiments for the high-level feature extraction and search tasks. For the search task, we tested the system we have used in previous years, which encapsulates content based image search, image browsing, automated image annotation and named entity extraction. For the feature task we apply the nonparametric density estimation model and the HMM-based concept specific image model.

The contribution to neurosurgery of the Combined Services Hospital for Head Injuries at St Hugh's College, Oxford, 1940-1945.

Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins

In 1979, Joshua Lederburg, recently appointed president of Rockefeller University, was in recruiting mode. Based on his long-term interest in the brain and psychiatry, Josh approached me with an attractive offer for myself and my colleagues Joe Coyle and Mike Kuhar. I visited our Dean, Richard Ross, to say goodbye, as I knew that Hopkins could never provide us Rockefellerlike resources. While R...

Attention psychophysical approaches - Oxford Reference

Attention is the mechanism that allows us to selectively process the vast amount of information that we receive and to guide our behaviour. Visual spatial attention can be deployed overtly, accompanied by eye movements to the relevant location, or covertly, without eye movements (Helmholtz 1910/1925, Posner 1980). There are two types of covert attention: sustained attention refers to the volunt...

Facebook Fiends: Compulsive Social Networking and Adjustment to College

The use of Social Network Sites (SNS) has been associated with both positive and negative effects on adolescents. To untangle these conflicting findings, the present research investigates relationships among differing indicators of SNS use and indices of academic, social and psychological adjustment in a population of first year college students in the United States. Compulsive use rather than ...