I take the reins of IEEE Internet Computing after 10 years of the magazine's existence, and a crazy 10 years it has been — if not for the magazine itself, then for the Internet. With my first column as editor in chief, I'd like to look back at the past decade and how the magazine has evolved along with the Internet. I picked the column heading, All Systems Go, to highlight one of these evolutio...

GigaScience is now 5 years old, having been launched at the 2012 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference. Anyone who has attended what is the largest computational biology conference since then has had the opportunity to join us for each birthday celebration-and receive 1 of our fun T-shirts as a party prize. Since launching, we have pushed our agenda of openness, transparency, rep...

ith this issue, Cellular and Molecular GastroenterW ology and Hepatology begins its second year of publication. By any measure, tremendous progress has been made toward establishing Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology as a valuable resource for the broader gastrointestinal research community. By the numbers, our turnaround time from submission to first decision has remained a...

W ell, here I am again, almost 12 months after my January " welcome to a new year " greeting, now writing my " so long, it's been good to know you " message. It's with sadness that I do this because this has been the quickest and most incredible year of my life. In my capacity as the IEEE Computer Society's president, I've traveled almost 150,000 miles and spoken to thousands of colleagues in n...

havioral approaches; specifically, they concern topics such as the mobile environment, u-Health, organizational and individual barriers to information systems, user preference to monitors, and human factors in engineering. The collection of topics here is only one example of the gradual rise in interest in social factors, policy, and behavioral informatics. This trend is not only a consequence ...

Editorial I n the mid-1700s, the medical establishment believed that scurvy was a disease of putrefaction that was treatable with an elixir of vitriol and wort. The benefit of citrus was dismissed as unproven despite the fact that its regular consumption to prevent scurvy had been used by some cultures since antiquity and the English military had recommended citrus for scurvy for more than 50 y...

As well as containing an excellent bunch of research papers, this month's BJGP celebrates two important milestones in its history — the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the Journal of the College of General Practitioners, without the appended College Research Newsletter, in 1960 and the establishment of the Journal's International Advisory Board during 2010. But first the papers. Th...