Presidential address: The vascular societies—How involved should they be?

Presidential address: time for the future of vascular surgery.

Presidential address: The Endocrine Society.

IN the course of a career most of us have multiple opportunities to contribute something to the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society. Usually these opportunities take the form of ten-minute papers concerning some recent discovery. At this moment I wish I could tell you about the discovery of a new steroid associated with high blood pressure, or the discovery of a new peptide hormone, or the ...

The Knowledge Level (Presidential Address)

This is the first presidential address of AAAI, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In the grand scheme of history, even the history of artificial intelligence (AI), this is surely a minor event. The field this scientific society represents has been thriving for quite some time. No doubt the society itself will make solid contributions to the health of our field But it is too ...

Presidential address: The Endocrine Society.

D OCTOR ROSS, MEMBERS AND GUESTS: Thank you for this splendid plaque and for your overgenerous words. They are among the few, evanescent, albeit cherished, rewards of the Presidency of our Society. In sharp contrast, the punishment for succumbing to the lure of this high office is implacable, demonic, and so severe that it cannot be borne alone: the Presidential address. This year, I have attem...

Thirty-something million: should they be exceptions?

There are over 30 million people in the United States with disabilities or functional limitations (of which a major cause is aging), and this number is increasing. An examination of the role of human factors in addressing this population is presented which includes both special designs for disability/aging and the incorporation of disability/aging into mainstream human factors research and educ...