Prof. Ernst Reuter

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Ernst Mayr, a retrospective.

During the late summer of 1979, Ernst Mayr and I (Figure 1) had finished editing The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology [1]. He knew that I was working on a long essay about Theodosius Dobzhansky and also planning a book about Sewall Wright. From his farm in Wilton, New Hampshire, Ernst handwrote me a letter (Figure 2) from which this excerpt is taken: ‘In your w...

Poster: Usability Evaluation of Gesture-Based Authentication Using a Mobile Phone

Niklas Kirschnick Quality and Usability Lab Telekom Innovation Laboratories Technische Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 10587 Berlin, Germany [email protected] Benjamin Müller Quality and Usability Lab Telekom Innovation Laboratories Technische Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 10587 Berlin, Germany [email protected] Sebastian Möller Quality and Usability Lab...

In memoriam Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, who died on 3 February 2005 in Bedford, Massachusetts, at the age of 100+, was one of the major evolutionary scholars of our time. Mayr’s life was devoted to understanding the biodiversity of life and its dramatic adaptive evolution. His impact on evolutionary biology was profound and long lasting. He is wid...

Ernst Fehr ; Klaus

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and reciprocity. Moreover, several ...