h THE 50TH DESIGN Automation Conference (DAC) was held in June of 2013. Fifty years of anything is amazing, especially in our young industry. To celebrate, DAC asked attendees to contribute their DAC moments. Here are a few excerpts, edited for space. You can find the complete set of DACMoments at http://dac.com/content/my-dac-moment-50-yearsmemories. Thenext DAC, the 51st, will be held in San ...

One contribution of 14 to a Theme Issue 'Inclusive fitness: 50 years on'.

a BBC 2013. Doctor Who chronicles the adventures of an extraterrestrial Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. Although humanoid, the Doctor differs from you or me in many ways, not the least of which is the ability to navigate through space and time (using the TARDIS, an acronym for time and relative dimension in space, an erstwhile British police box). He also has two hearts and the capacity fo...

Weakly electric gymnotiform and mormyrid fish generate and detect weak electric fields to image their worlds and communicate. These multi-purpose electric signals are generated by electrocytes, the specialized electric organ (EO) cells that produce the electric organ discharge (EOD). Just over 50 years ago the first experimental analyses of electrocyte physiology demonstrated that the EOD is pr...

Our understanding of the nature of interstellar grains has evolved considerably over the past half century with the present author and Fred Hoyle being intimately involved at several key stages of progress. The currently fashionable graphite-silicate-organic grain model has all its essential aspects unequivocally traceable to original peer-reviewed publications by the author and/or Fred Hoyle. ...