which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. It is now more than twenty years since when Izet Masic, at that time already well known in EFMI/IMIA circles, entered the world of Medical Informatics (MI) publishing by starting in 1993 his journal " Acta Informatica Medica " (Acta Inform Med), in which he ...

A special session entitled “Future Directions In Artificial Intelligence” was held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C. in August. The session, chaired by Jack Minker, was held to honor Soviet cyberneticist Alexander Yankelovich Lerner’s seventieth birthday. Minker described Dr. Lerner’s contributions to science. Participants Saul Amarel, Nils Nilsson, John ...

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Modern knowledge of protein chemistry rests firmly on a number of fundamental discoveries extending back to the time of Beccarius and Scheele. Although it has been two hundred and twenty years since Beccarius isolated gluten from wheat, factual knowledge of proteins has accumulated with great rapidity only during the last century. It may be noted that the impetus was not only the increasing gen...

Writing a Biographical Lexicon of Public Health is not easy. Public health has its own unique history and comes through antiquity to our modern society. From ensuring clean and safe environmental and living conditions and the control of infectious diseases, to addressing the causes of non-communicable diseases, through health promotion and addressing the wider determinants of health, public hea...

In the words of Gary Doern, Ph.D., a colleague, collaborator, and friend, “Few people have made more significant and lasting contributions to the field of clinical microbiology than has Jim Jorgensen, not only as a dedicated practitioner but also as an extremely productive researcher, an uncommonly effective educator, a broad reaching author, and a lifelong advocate for the discipline.” Such se...

Wikipedia is the largest collection of encyclopedic data ever written in the history of humanity. Thanks to its coverage and its availability in machine-readable format, it has become a primary resource for largescale research in historical and cultural studies. In this work, we focus on the subset of pages describing persons, and we investigate the task of recognizing biographical sections fro...