Individuals usually go to art museums enjoy artworks. Generally, in order appreciate the museums, a brief summary of certain information is provided as caption. Viewers read these descriptions aid their understanding. To provide broader technical support for this activity, several researchers have proposed protocol appreciation. For instance, Leder et al. stage model aesthetic processing, which...

In the 1960s, James Lovelock, inventor of Electron Capture Detector, was asked by NASA to develop instrumentation detect life on Mars. considering how would manifest itself, he realised that Earth's atmosphere orders magnitude away from chemical equilibrium and such disequilibrium could not be due purely abiological processes, but maintained in a dynamically stable state Life. At time, spectrom...

In 1675, Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke, his fellow physicist, ‘‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’’ This Historical Note posthumously honors one particular giant, Friedrich Schwille, who died on April 15, 2000, in Koblenz, Germany. He is survived by his wife Margret and two children—Martin and Christine—and their families. Friedrich Schwille (Figure 1) wa...

Previously, we have shown that shaded perspective view (“3-D”) displays are better for understanding the shape and rough layout of terrain than conventional 2-D views. We have coined the term Naïve Realism for users’ misplaced, blanket faith in these 3-D displays (Smallman & St. John, 2005). There are hints in the individual difference literature that those of low spatial ability may be particu...

In the 1960s Karlin and Bodmer established an active programme in mathematical population genetics with NIH support that, in turn, supported the work of Ewens and Feldman with Karlin. Subsequently Karlin established a similar programme in Israel. The overall contributions of Karlin to population genetics and molecular biology are briefly reviewed from a personal perspective.

The recent passing of George Hess (1926–2015) has left a deep void in Cornell University’s Biochemistry department, and in the hearts of his many friends and admirers. He is sorely missed by his scientific friends and by his loving family. George Hess was born in Vienna, Austria, where he lived in an apartment on the Ringstrasse with his parents, Heinrich and Edith Mueller Hess, and maternal gr...

As a senior faculty member of the Courant Institute at NYU since 1965 and a charter member of its Computer Science Department, founded in 1969, I knew Bob Paige as a graduate student and later as a colleague. My own area of expertise is mathematical logic, and so was only very peripherally connected with Bob’s work. But being directly involved with decisions about Bob’s faculty appointment and ...