JuDY IllEs The Tanner Lectures on Human Values Delivered at clare Hall , cambridge university october 22 – 23 , 2007

An Interview with Kotaro Suzumura

The interview was conducted on October 4, 2007, during a Workshop associated with the 2007 Condorcet lectures delivered by Kotaro Suzumura on October 4 and 5, 2007 at the University of Caen. It was revised and expanded substantially on the occasion of Bossert’s visit to Waseda University, where Suzumura taught social choice theory and public philosophy over six years after his retirement from H...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal at Clark University, 1899; his only visit to the United States.

In 1899, at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall, the great psychologist and President of Clark University, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and four other European scientists of significant note, were invited to participate in the Decennial Celebration of Clark. Cajal, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Worcester, via New York, to much acclaim and praise in the local press. His three lectures, all delive...

“ What is SP ? ” : a Reply

My interest in information compression as an explanatory principle in information processing was sparked originally by lectures given by Horace Barlow in Cambridge University describing phenomena in the workings of brains and nervous systems which could be understood in terms of economical coding of information (see, for example, Barlow, 1969; Barlow and Földiák, 1989). Later, an accumulation o...

Quantum Hall conductance of two-terminal graphene devices

J. R. Williams,1 D. A. Abanin,2 L. DiCarlo,3,* L. S. Levitov,2,4 and C. M. Marcus3 1School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 4Kavli Institute for Theoretical P...

Chimeras of nurture.