In 1977 the Council of the Ulster Medical Society decided to revive the granting of Honorary Fellowship after a lapse of many years. The Honorary Fellowship is the highest honour that the Society has to confer. At a ceremony in the Royal Victoria Hospital on 1st June 1977, the President of the Ulster Medical Society, Dr. Trevor Hamilton, presented illuminated certificates of Honorary Fellowship...

Yuri Gurevich made many varied and deep contributions to logic for computer science. Logic provides also the theoretical foundation of database systems. Hence, it is almost unavoidable that Gurevich made some great contributions to database theory. We discuss some of these contributions, and, along the way, present some personal anecdotes connected to Yuri and the author. We also describe the h...

[This corrects the article on p. 96 in vol. 29, PMID: 27103964.].

In an editorial in the first issue of Science in 2010, Editorin-Chief, Bruce Alberts, writes: ‘The scientific enterprise is built on a foundation of trust’. The author emphasizes the importance of maintaining high ethical standards in any scientific publishing. He points to a previous publication in Science, where he and colleague Kenneth Shine pushed for a ‘research environment that, through i...

Kovacs argues that honorary authorship and regarding each co-author of multi-authored papers as if they were sole authors when the performance of researchers is being evaluated by their publications mean that we should require authors to identify what proportion of each publication should be attributed to each co-author. Even if such attributions could be made reliably, such a change should not...

On 27 March Stepan Vidnianskyi celebrates his 70th birthday. He is a well-known Ukrainian scholar, expert in the world history, Head of Department History International Relations and Foreign Policy Ukraine at Institute NAS (since 1991), Doctor (1997), Professor (1999), Corresponding Member (2015), Honored Science Engineering Worker (2001), Laureate State Prize Technology (2016), Honorary Uzhhor...