Thro’ Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares, We Have Already Come

Genomic anonymity: have we already lost it?

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Knowledge Representation: How far we have come?

The theory of Knowledge Representation has been one of the central focuses in Artificial Intelligence research over the past 60 years which has seen numerous proposals and debates ranging from very philosophical and theoretical level to practical issues. Although a lot of work has been done in this area, we believe currently, it does not receive enough attention from the research community, exc...

Emergency contraception: have we come full circle?

Two decades ago, Dr. Felicia Stewart, then serving as Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Sacramento, CA, began her campaign to let out of the closet “America's best-kept secret” — emergency contraception (EC) [1]. The method had been suppressed because many providers thought the method was “not effective enough” or would lead women to use it “too much” (in place of using ot...

What have we already learned from the CMB ?

The COBE satellite, and the DMR experiment in particular, was extraordinarily successful. However, the DMR results were announced more than 6 years ago, during which time a great deal more has been learned about anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We assess the current state of knowledge, and discuss where we might be going. The CMB experiments currently being designed and bu...