From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 01 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov (Larry Hunter) Newsgroups: bionet.announce,bionet.biology.computational,bionet.general,bionet.info-theory,bionet.molbio.bio-matrix,bionet.molec-model,bionet.population-bio,bionet.software,bionet.women-in-bio Subject: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing -- Program & Final Announcement Date: 1 Nov 1995 16:14:34 -0800 Organization: National Library of Medicine Lines: 322 Sender: biohelp@net.bio.net Approved: bionews-moderator@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: Hunter@nlm.nih.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.announce:2592 bionet.biology.computational:811 bionet.general:18239 bionet.info-theory:3710 bionet.molbio.bio-matrix:666 bionet.molec-model:648 bionet.population-bio:1630 bionet.software:13801 bionet.women-in-bio:3264 **** PSB '96 FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT **** This is the program of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing to be held on the Big Island of Hawaii, January 3-6, 1996. For symposium registration information and forms, please see our web site at http://cgl.ucsf.edu/psb or send email to psb@intsim.com INVITED PRESENTATIONS: Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University: Logical Simulation of Biomolecular Information Pathways David Weininger, DAYLIGHT Chemical Information Systems. CEX and the Single Chemist SESSION TOPICS: * Internet Tools for Computational Biology * Biocomputing Education: Challenges and Opportunities * Interactive Molecular Visualization * Stochastic Models, Formal Systems and Algorithmic Discovery for Genome Informatics * The Evolution of Biomolecular Structures and the Structure of Biomolecular Evolution * Discovering, Learning, Analyzing and Predicting Protein Structure * Population Modelling * Models of Control Systems in Biology * Hybrid Quantum and Classical Mechanical Methods for Studying Biopolymers in Solution * Computational Studies on the Design of Protease Inhibitors ORAL PRESENTATIONS Tatsuya Akutsu and Hiroshi Tashimo, "Protein structure comparison using representation by line segment sequences" Kurt Albrect, John Hart, Alex Shaw and A. Keith Dunker, "Quaternion Contact Ribbons: a New Tool for Visualizing Intra- and Inter-molecular Interactions in Proteins." Nickolai N. Alexandrov, Ruth Nussinov and Ralk M. Zimmer, "Fast Protein Fold Recognition via Sequence to Structure Alignment and Contact Capacity Potentials." Russ B. Altman and John Koza, "A Programming Course in Bioinformatics for Computer and Information Science Students." Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Sridhar Chirravuri, Jonathan Arnord and David Whitmire "Massively Parallel Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Chromosome Reconstruction via Clone Ordering." Erich Bornberg-Bauer, "Structure Formation of Biopolymers is Complex, Their Evolution may be Simple." Michael Brown and Charles Wilson, "RNA Pseudoknot Modeling Using Intersections of Stochastic Context Free Grammars with Applications to Database Search." Su Yun Chung and S. Subbiah, "How similar must a template protein be for homology modeling by side-chain packing methods?" Steven A. Corcelli, Joel D. Kress, Lawrence R. Pratt and Gregory Tawa, "Mixed Direct-Iterative Methods for Boundary Integral Formulations of Dielectric Solvation Models." Gordon Crippen and Vladimir Maiorov, "All possible protein folds at low resolution." Erzsbet Csuhaj-Varj, Rudolf Freund, Lila Kari and Gheorghe P un, "DNA Computing Based on Splicing: Universarity Results." Ewa Deelman, Thomas Caraco, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, "Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Lyme Disease" Francisco M. De La Vega, Robert Giegerich and Georg Fuellen, "Distance Education through the Internet: The GNA-VSNS Biocomputing Course" T. Gregory Dewey and Bonnie J. Strait, "Multfractals, Encoded Walks and the Ergodicity of Protein Sequences." Reinhard Doelz and Florian Eggenberger, "List Update Processing (LUP) - Solving the database update problem" David L. Dowe, Lloyd Allison, Trevor Dix, Lawrence Hunter, Chris S. Wallace and Timothy Edgoose, "Circular Clulstering of Protein Dihedral Angles by Minimum Message Length." Keith Downing, "An Object-Oriented Data-Driven Migration Model." Herbert Edelsbrunner, Michael Facello and Jie Liang, "On the Definition and the Construction of Pockets in Macromolecules." C. Ferretti and S. Kobayashi , "DNA Splicing Systems and Post Systems." Daniel Fischer, Arne Elofsson, Danny Rice and David Eisenberg, "Assessing the performance of fold recognition methods by means of a comprehensive benchmark." Bruno A. Gaeta, Carolyn A. Bucholtz, Rowena Campbell, Camson Huynh, Stephanie Kim, and Alex H. Reisner, "Biocomputing Education by the Australian National Genomic Information Service." K.M. Gernert, L.D. Bergman, B.D. Thomas, J.C. Plurad, J.S. Richardson, D.C. Richardson and L.D. Bergman, "Puzzle Pieces Defined: Locating Common Packing Units in Tertiary Protein Contacts" Brad Gulko and David Haussler, "Using Multiple Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees to Detect RNA Secondary Structure." Paul Horton, " A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Local Multiple Alignment" Wolf-Dietrich Ihlenfeldt and Johann Gasteiger, "Beyond the Hyperactive Molecule: Search, Salvage and Visualization of Chemical Information from the Internet." Susan J. Johns, Steve M. Thompson, and A.Keith Dunker, "An Introductory Course in Computational Molecular Biology: Rationale, History, Observations and Course Description." A. Peter Johnson and Zsolt Zsoldos, "Visualisation in the SPROUT molecular design program." Richard Judson, "Computational Evolution of a Model Polymer that Folds to a Specified Target Conformation" Peter Karp, "A Protocol for Maintaining Multidatabase Referential Integrity" Andrzej Kolinski, Jeffrey Skolnick and Adam Godzik, "An algorithm for prediction of structural elements in small proteins" Eugene Kolker and Edward Trifonov, "Sequence Sizes of Eukaryotic Enzymes" Y. Komeiji, H. Yokoyama, M. Uebayasi, M. Taiji, T. Fukushige, D. Sugimoto, R.Takata, A Shimizu and K. Itsukashi, "A high performance system for molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules using a special-purpose computer" J. M. Koshi and R. A. Goldstein, "Correlating Mutation Matrices with Physical-Chemical Properties" John R. Koza and David Andre, "A Case Study Where Biology Inspired a Solution to a Computer Science Problem." H. Matsua, "Protein Phylogenetic Inference using Maximum Likelihood with a Genetic Algorithm" Richard P. Muller and Arieh Warshel, "Ab Initio Calculations of Free Energy Barriers for Chemical Reactions in Solution: Proton Transfer in [FHF]-" . Nickolai N. Alexandrov, Ruth Nussinov, and Ralf M. Zimmer, "Fast protein fold recognition via sequence to structure alignment and contact capacity potentials" Jiann-Jong Pan and Jenn-Kang Hwang, "Mixed Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Simulations of Chemical Reactions in Solution and in Enzymes by the Classical Trajectory Mapping Approach" . Andrew Pohorille, Christophe Chipot, Michael H. New, and Michael A. Wilson, "Molecular Modeling of Protocellular Functions" Stephen D. Rufino, Luis E. Donate, Luc Canard, and Tom L. Blundell, "Analysis, clustering and prediction of the conformation of short and medium size loops connecting regular secondary structure" E. Swanson and T. P. Lybrand, "Computational Biology Instruction at the University of Washington Center for Bioengineering" Erika Tateishi and Satoru Miyano, "A Greedy Strategy for Finding Motifs from Yes-No Examples" A. Tropsha, R. K. Singh, I. I. Vaisman and W. Zheng, "Statistical Geometry Analysis of Proteins: Implications for inverted structure prediction" David Van Der Spoel and Herman J.C. Berendsen, "Determination of Proton Transfer Rate Constants Using Ab Initio, Molecular Dynamics and Density Matrix Evolution Calculations" Gennady Verkhivker, "Empirical Free Energy Calculations of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protease Crystallographic Complexes. II. Knowledge-Based Ligand-Protein Interaction Potentials Applied to the Thermodynamic Analysis of Hydrophobic Mutations" Michal Vieth, Andrzej Kolinski, Charles L. Brooks, III, and Jeffrey Skolnick, "Prediction of the quaternary structure of coiled coils: GCN4 leucine zipper and its mutants" H. Vollhardt and J. Brickmann, "3D Molecular Graphics on the World Wide Web" Cathy H. Wu, Hsi-Lien Chen, Chin-Ju Lo and Jerry W. McLarty, "Motif Identification Neural Design for Rapid and Sensitive Protein Family Search" Tetsushi Yada, Masato Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Tanaka and Kiyoshi Asai, "Extraction of Hidden Markov Model Representations of Signal Patterns in DNA Sequences" POSTER PRESENTATIONS (including live poster demonstrations): Tatsuya Akutsu, "A Simple Alignment Algorithm for Three-dimensional Protein Structures." Russ B. Altman and Steven C. Bagley, "Conserved biochemical features among four protease molecules with not structural or sequential homology." Russ B. Altman, Robert Schmidt and Mark Gerstein, "A library of low-variance cores for protein families." Paul Bieganski, John Riedl, John Carlis and Ernest F. Retzel, "Motif Explorer P A tool for interaction exploration of Amino Acid Sequence Motifs." GeneQuiz II: Automatic Function Asignment for Genome Sequence Analysis." Fancisco M. De La Vega, Carlos Cerpa, Gabriel Guarneros and Robert M. Farber, "A Mutal Information Analysis of tRNA seqeuence and modification patterns distinctive of species and phylogentic domain. P. De Rijk and R. De Wachter, "tkDCSE, The dedicated comparitive sequence editor." Yukiko Fujiwara, Minoru Asogawa and Akihiko Konagaya, "Motif extraction using an improved iterative duplication method for HMM topology learning." K.M. Gernert, J.S. Richardson and D.C. Richardson, "MAGE as a teaching tool." Andrei Grigoriev, Richard Mott and Hans Lehrach, "Handling experimental noise and integrating different types of data in genomic mapping." X. Guan and E. Uberbacher, "A fast lookup algorithm for detecting repetitive DNA sequences." Chris Henn and Michael Teschner, "Molecular Inventor: Discovering novel compounds in a collaborative environment." C. N. Hodge, Z.W. Wasserman, P.F.W. Stouten, B.A. Luty and C. Liang, "Fitting Flexible ligands into flexible active sites." Conrad C. Huang, Gregory S. Couch, Eric F. Pettersen and Thomas E. Ferrin, " Chimera: An extensible molecular modelling application constructed using standard components." Peter D. Karp and Suzanne M. Paley, "Retrofitting existing applications and authoring new applications for the World Wide Web." Ajay Jain, "Flexible Molecular Docking: Scoring, Site Identification and Database Searching." F. Lebon, "Strategy for de novo computational drug design of HIV-1 PR inhibitors." J.E. Marstaller and M. D. Zorn, "An electronic laboratory notebook based on the World Wide Web." H. Matsuda, F. Taniguchi and A. Hashimoto, "A notation of amino acid conformations for exploring similar protein structures." Seth Michelson, "Biological control in tumor growth." Arthur J. Olson and Bruce S. Duncan, "Protein-protein docking using parametric surface representations." Martin G. Reese, Nomi L. Harris and Frank H. Eeckman, "Large scale sequencing specific neural networks for promotor and splice site recognition." B. A. Reva, A. V. Finkelstein, D. S. Rykunov and A. J. Olson, "Building of self-avoidingt lattice models of proteins using a SCF-optimization" Michel F. Sanner, Boris A. Reva, Alexei V. Finkelstein and Arthur J. Olson, "Increasing accuracy of energy calculations of lattice models by adjusting the potentials." R. K. Singh, D. L. Hoffman and A. Tropsha, "Rapid comparison and classification of protein 3D structures using one-dimensional structure profiles. Wayne E. Steinmetz, Steve Cotton and Cynthia D. Selassie, "A CoMFA analysis of the elastase catalyzed hydrolysis of glycine esters." Hideaki Sugawara, Junko Shimura, Satoru Miyazaki, Yoshihiro Masuda and Yasuhiro Ishitobi, "Application of a new data model and visualization to systematics." Barnabas Takacs, "A parallel computational model of attention and saccade generation in the human visual system." Hidetoshi Tanaka, "An automatic configuration algorithm of discrete hidden Markov models for amino acid sequences." Holly Tao, Zhen Tao Chu and Arieh Warshel, "Quantitative studies of ligand-receptor interactions: A rapid evaluation of binding free energies of endothiapepsin to its inhibitors." Excited states of the chromophores of the photosynthetic reaction center >From Rhodopseudomonas viridis: A QM/MM study that includes MM polarization." Iosif I. Vaisman, "Virtual communities at interdisciplinary boundaries." -- Lawrence Hunter, PhD. National Library of Medicine phone: +1 (301) 496-9300 Bldg. 38A, 9th floor fax: +1 (301) 496-0673 Bethesda. MD 20894 USA email: hunter@nlm.nih.gov PGP 2.62 public key from http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 01 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!PAVLOV.RUTGERS.EDU!gluck From: gluck@PAVLOV.RUTGERS.EDU (Mark Gluck) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Rutgers Ph.D. Program in BEHAVIORAL & NEURAL SCIENCES Date: 2 Nov 1995 05:22:52 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 132 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199511021346.IAA03645@pavlov.rutgers.edu> Application Information for Ph.D. Program in BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL SCIENCES at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey * Application target date is February 1, 1996 * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Additional information on our Ph.D. program, research facilities,and faculty can be obtained over the internet at: http://www.cmbn.rutgers.edu/bns-home.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Behavioral and Neural Sciences (BNS) graduate program at Rutgers-Newark aims to provide students with a rigorous understanding of modern neuroscience with an emphasis on integrating behavioral and neural approaches to understanding brain function. The program emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of this endeavor, and offers specific research training in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Molecular, Cellular and Systems Neuroscience. These research areas represent different but complementary approaches to contemporary issues in behavioral and molecular neuroscience and can emphasize either human or animal studies. The BNS graduate program is composed of faculty from the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN), the Institute of Animal Behavior (IAB), the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Psychology, and the School of Nursing. Research training in the BNS program emphasizes integration across levels of analysis and traditional disciplinary boundaries. Basic research areas in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience include the study of the basal forebrain, basal ganglia, hippocampus, visual and auditory systems and monoaminergic and neuroendocrine systems using electrophysiological, neurochemical, neuroanatomical and molecular biological approaches. Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience includes the study of memory, language (both signed and spoken), reading, attention, motor control, vision, and animal behavior. Clinically relevant research areas are the study of the behavioral, physiological and pharmacological aspects of schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease, amnesia, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, and the molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders Other Information ----------------- At present the CMBN supports up to 40 students with 12-month renewable assistantships for a period of five years. The curent stipend for first year students is $12,750; this includes tuition remission and excellent healthcare benefits. In addition, the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company's Foundation has provided four Excellence Awards which increase students' stipends by $5,000. Several other fellowships are offered. More information is available in our graduate brochure, available upon request. The Rutgers-Newark campus is 20 minutes outside New York City, and close to other major university research centers at NYU, Columbia, SUNY, and Princeton, as well as major industrial research labs in Northern NJ, including ATT, Bellcore, Siemens, and a host of pharmaceutical companies including Johnson & Johnson Hoecsht-Celanese, and Sandoz. Faculty Associated With Rutgers BNS Ph.D. Program ------------------------------------------------- FACULTY - RUTGERS Elizabeth Abercrombie (Ph.D., Princeton), neurotransmitters and behavior [CMBN] Colin Beer (Ph.D., Oxford), ethology [IAB] April Benasich (Ph.D., New York), infant perception and cognition [CMBN] Ed Bonder (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), cell biology [Biology] Linda Brzustowicz (M.D.,Ph.D., Columbia), human genetics [CMBN] Gyorgy Buzsaki (Ph.D., Budapest), systems neuroscience [CMBN] Mei-Fang Cheng (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr) neuroethology/neurobiology [IAB] Ian Creese (Ph.D., Cambridge), neuropsychopharmacology [CMBN] Doina Ganea (Ph.D., Illinois Medical School), molecular immunology [Biology] Alan Gilchrist (Ph.D., Rutgers), visual perception [Psychology] Mark Gluck (Ph.D.,Stanford), learning, memory and neural computation [CMBN] Ron Hart (Ph.D., Michigan), molecular neuroscience [Biology] G. Miller Jonakait (Ph.D., Cornell Medical College), neuroimmunology [Biology] Judy Kegl (Ph.D., M.I.T.), linguistics/neurolinguistics [CMBN] Barry Komisaruk (Ph.D., Rutgers), behavioral neurophysiology/pharmacology [IAB] Joan Morrell (Ph.D., Rochester), cellular neuroendocrinology [CMBN] Teresa Perney (Ph.D., Chicago), ion channel gene expression and function [CMBN] Howard Poizner (Ph.D., Northeastern), language and motor behavior [CMBN] Jay Rosenblatt (Ph.D., New York), maternal behavior [IAB] Anne Sereno (Ph.D., Harvard), attention and visual perception [CMBN] Maggie Shiffrar (Ph.D., Stanford), vision and motion perception[CMBN] Harold Siegel (Ph.D., Rutgers) neuroendocrine mechanisms [IAB] Ralph Siegel (Ph.D., McGill), neuropsychology of visual perception [CMBN] Jennifer Swann (Ph.D., Michigan), neuroendocrinology [Biology] Paula Tallal (Ph.D., Cambridge), neural basis of language development [CMBN] James Tepper (Ph.D., Colorado), basal ganglia neurophysiology and anatomy [CMBN] Beverly Whipple (Ph.D., Rutgers), women's health [Nursing] Laszlo Zaborszky (Ph.D., Hungarian Academy), neuroanatomy of forebrain [CMBN] ASSOCIATES OF CMBN Izrail Gelfand (Ph.D., Moscow State), biology of cells [Biology] Richard Katz (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr), psychopharmacology [Ciba Geigy] Barry Levin (M.D., Emory Medical) neurobiology David Tank (Ph.D., Cornell), neural plasticity [Bell Labs] For More Information or an Application -------------------------------------- If you are interested in applying to our graduate program, or possibly applying to one of the labs as a post-doc, research assistant or programmer, please contact us via one of the following: Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki BNS Graduate Admissions CMBN, Rutgers University 197 University Ave. Newark, New Jersey 07102 Phone: (201) 648-1080 (Ext. 3221) Fax: (201) 648-1272 Email: buzsaki@axon.rutgers.edu (Gyorgy Buzsaki), or gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu (Mark Gluck), or brk@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Barry Komisaruk). We will be happy to send you info on our research and graduate program, as well as set up an a possible visit to the Neuroscience Center here at Rutgers-Newark. Please also see our WWW Homepage listed above which contains extensive information on faculty research, degree requirements, local facilities, and more. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 01 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!U.WASHINGTON.EDU!marks From: marks@U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Robert Marks) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: NN Press Release Date: 1 Nov 1995 16:42:39 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 156 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9511020040.AA13754@carson.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net IEEE Neural Networks Council PRESS RELEASE Detroit, Michigan, November 1, 1995 Awards Committee, IEEE Neural Networks Council 1995 IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Awards Professors Michael A. Arbib and Nils J. Nilsson and Dr. Paul J. Werbos have been selected to receive the 1995 IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Awards. The awards will be presented at the Banquet of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN '95) in Perth (at the Tumbulgum Farm), Western Australia, on Thursday November 30, 1995. The IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Awards have been established to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in significant contributions to the early concepts and developments in the neural networks field. 1995 marks the fifth year for this award, which is to be presented to outstanding individuals for contributions made at least fifteen years earlier. The three individuals receiving Pioneer Awards in 1995 are internationally recognized experts who have made pioneering technical contributions in the neural networks field. The following is a brief description of the awardeesU pioneering contributions that the Pioneer Award recognize and biographies which provide an overview of the distinguished careers of the awardees. Michael A. Arbib pioneered Neural Networks in Australia, writing his first paper on the subject as an undergraduate at Sydney University in 1960, and basing his first book (Brains, Machines and Mathematics, McGraw- Hill 1964) on lectures presented at the University of New South Wales. He is being honored for his pioneering work on the development of a system-theoretic approach to the brain in the early sixties. He has very actively advanced the notion that the brain is not a computer in the recent technological sense, but that we can learn much about brains from studying machines, and much about machines from studying brains. His thoughts have influenced, encouraged, and encharmed many researchers in the field of neural networks. Arbib is Professor of Computer Science, Neurobiology and Physiology, as well as of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology at the University of Southern California, which he joined in September of 1986. Born in England in 1940, he grew up in Australia where he had earned his B.Sc. (Hons.) from Sydney University. Dr. Arbib later moved to the U.S. where he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1963, spending two years as a Research Assistant to Warren McCulloch. After five years at Stanford University (as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor), he became Chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970, and remained in the Department until August of 1986. Dr. Arbib currently directs a major interdisciplinary project on "Neural Plasticity: Data and Computational Structures", integrating studies of the brain with new approaches to databases, visualization, simulation, and the World Wide Web. His own research focuses on mechanisms underlying the coordination of perception and action. The author of twenty books and the editor of eleven more, Arbib has most recently edited The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (The MIT Press, 1995). Nils J. Nilsson is being honored with the IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Award for his contribution to the theory of perceptrons and learning machines. His outstanding contribution in the area of neural networks was his 1965 Pioneering book, Learning Machines: Foundations of Trainable Pattern-Classifying Systems. This was the definitive book on the subject during that decade. The book treated algorithms, learning, capacity, and multi-layer perceptrons. He did it in an accessible manner, which influenced a whole decade of research in the area. Nils J. Nilsson is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1933, Nilsson's early education was in schools in Michigan and Southern California. He attended Stanford University both as an undergraduate and a graduate student and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, in 1956 and 1958, respectively. For three years after his Ph.D., he served as an Air Force lieutenant at the Rome Air Development Center in Rome, New York, where he performed research in radar signal detection. Dr. Nilsson joined SRI International (then called the Stanford Research Institute) in 1961. His early work there was on statistical and neural-network approaches to pattern recognition and led to his influential book Learning Machines: Foundations of Trainable Pattern-Classifying Systems (McGraw- Hill, 1965). Later at SRI, Dr. Nilsson became interested in broader aspects of AI which led to the publication of his two books: Problem Solving Methods in Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1971), and Principles of Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA 1980). Dr. Nilsson also led the project that developed the SRI robot RShakeyS and served as the director of the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center for the years 1980 to 1984. Professor Nilsson returned to Stanford in 1985 as the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, a position he held until August 1990. At Stanford, he coauthored (with Michael Genesereth) the book Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA 1987). His most recent research is on the problem of combining deliberate (and sometimes slow) robot-reasoning processes with mechanisms for making more rapid, stero-typical responses to dynamic, time-critical situations. He is also interested in applying machine learning and adaptive computation techniques to this problem. Professor Nilsson served as the AI Area Editor for the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, is on the editorial board of the journal Artificial Intelligence, and is a past-president and Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He helped found and is on the board of directors of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. Paul J. Werbos is being honored for doing much of the ground work, in the early seventies, for what has now emerged as the practical back-propagation learning algorithm in multi-layer networks; and for his continuing and sustained contributions to current advances in neurocontrol. Dr. Werbos holds four degrees from Harvard University and the London School of Economics, covering economics, mathematical physics, decision and control. His 1974 Harvard Ph.D. thesis presented the Rbackpropagation methodS for the first time, permitting the efficient calculation of derivatives and adaptation of all kinds of nonlinear sparse structures, including neural networks; it has been reprinted in its entirety in his book, The Roots of Backpropagation (Wiley, 1994) along with several related seminal and tutorial papers. In these and other more recent papers, he has described how backpropagation may be incorporated into new intelligent control designs with extensive parallels to the structure of the human brain. Dr. Werbos runs the Neuroengineering program and the SBIR Next Generation Vehicle program at the National Science Foundation. He is Past President of the International Neural Network Society, and a member of the IEEE Control and SMC Societies. Prior to NSF, he worked at the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Energy. He was born in 1947 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His publications range from neural networks to quantum foundations, energy economics, and issues of consciousness. Mohamad H. Hassoun Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wayne State University 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive Detroit, MI 48202 Tel. (313) 577-3920 Fax. (313) 577-1101 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 01 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!news From: zito@cmns.mnegri.it (Zito) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: familial segregation analysis: help me! Date: 2 Nov 1995 12:15:18 GMT Organization: Consorzio Mario Negri Sud Lines: 37 Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[6913] Message-ID: <47acom$11ne@serra.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: journ01.cmns.mnegri.it X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.5@journ01.cmns.mnegri.it Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. Hi friends, on the basis of the quality (and the number) of answers received from a previously posted question, I decided to re-contact this newsgroup. I would appreciate very much if someone could help me in solving the following doubts: I am involved in the study of a genetical defect, probably segregating in families with a specific disease. I have at disposal 18 unrelated probands, each of them with a modified (diseased) phenotype, and I would like to verify the association of it to the genetic defect. No literature exists on this possible association. The same parameter has been detected in the respective families of the subjects. Each studied family is composed by: mother, father and two brothers of the proband. However I DON'T KNOW which is the TOTAL number of the components of the families... Could it be a limit? Of the total 90 subjects, I verified both the presence (or the absence) of the defect and the anamnesis of the disease. My data seem to suggest that the searched association could exist, anyway... Does it exist a method to evaluate the direct link between the defect and the disease, on the basis of the available data? Does anybody know how should I increase the number of families (or probands) to correctly verify it? Each kind of suggestions or comments will be welcome... Let me hope that I have been clear enough. Thank you very, very much for your attention. 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Attached file format may not be for you: it is sent as an uncompressed 525K file formatted in Microsoft World on a Mac; if you don't use Microsoft Word on a Mac - you will have to know how to convert into a usable text format. They cannot help you with this. If in doubt, they suggest you go with the universally acceptable 19-part email message. You can always manually spend a few minutes pasting the parts into one whole.}}} Hi fellow 'netters, My name is Yoshio Koseki and I recently started using a magazine subscription club in the USA that has a FREE 1 yr. magazine subscription deal with your first paid order- and I have been very pleased with them. They have over 1,500 different USA titles that they can ship to any country on a subscription basis. As for computer magazines from the USA, they more of a selection than I ever knew even existed. They have magazines for most every area of interest in their list of 1,500 titles. Within the USA, for their USA members, they are cheaper than all their competitors and even the publishers themselves. This is their price guarantee. Overseas, on the average, they are generally around one-fourth to one-half of what the newstands overseas charge locally for USA magazines. On some titles they are as little as one-tenth of what the newstands charge. They feel that mgazines should not be a luxury overseas. In the USA, people buy magazines and then toss them after reading them for just a few minutes or hours. They are so cheap in the USA! Well, this company would like to make it the same way for their overseas members. They are also cheaper than all their competitors in the USA and overseas, including the publishers themselves! This is their price guarantee. Around one-half their business comes from overseas, so they are very patient with new members who only speak limited English as a 2nd language. Their prices are so cheap because they deal direct with each publisher and cut-out all the middlemen. They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that they sell. Please do not email me as I am just a happy customer and a *busy* student. I don't have time to even complete my thesis in time, let alone run my part-time software business! Please fill out the below form and email to them at: potential_new_members_FREE_catalogue_by-email@0.5.5.1.7.6.9.8.1.7.1.tpc.int *NOTE: to make it easier for you to reply, I have put their address in the "Reply-To" field, which means you can just use your email software to reply to this message in order to get that address to pop-up in your "To:" field.* They guarantee to beat all their competitors' prices. Sometimes they are less than half of the next best deal I have been able to find and other times, just a little cheaper - but I have never found a lower rate yet. They assured me that if I ever do, they will beat it. They have been very helpful and helped me change my address from the USA to Finland and then back again when I moved last month. They are very knowledgeable about addressing mags worldwide. They have a deal where you can get a free 1 yr. sub to a new magazine from a special list of over 300 popular titles published in the USA. They will give you this free 1 yr. sub when you place your first paid order with them to a renewal or new subscription to any of the over 1,500 different popular USA titles they sell. They can arrange delivery to virtually any country and I think they have clients in around 35 or 36 countries now. Outside the USA there is a charge for foreign postage and handling (on both paid and freebie subs) that varies from magazine to magazine. I have found their staff to be very friendly and courteous. They even helped me with an address change when I moved from one country to another. The owner thinks of his service as a "club" and his clients as "members" (even though there is no extra fee to become a member - your first purchase automatically makes you a member) and he is real picky about who he accepts as a new member. When he sets you up as a new member, he himself calls you personally on the phone to explain how he works his deal, or sometimes he has one of his assistants call. He is kind of quirky sometimes - he insists on setting up new members by phone so he can say hi to everyone (I sure wouldn't want to have his phone bills!), but you can place future orders (after your first order) via E-mail. He has some really friendly young ladies working for him, who seem to know just as much as he does about this magazine stuff. If you live overseas, he will even call you there, as long as you are interested, but I think he still makes all his overseas calls on the weekends, I guess cause the long distance rates are cheaper then. He only likes to take new members from referrals from satisfied existing members and he does virtually no advertising. When I got set-up, they had a 2-3 week waiting list for new members to be called back so that they could join up. (Once you are an existing member, they help you immediately when you call. ) I think they are able to get back to prospective new members the same day or within a few days now, as they have increased their staff. I am not sure about this.........but if you email the above form to them, that is the way to get started! They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that they sell. They then send you email that outlines how his club works and the list of free choices that you can choose from, as well as the entire list of what he sells; and then they will give you a quick (3-5 minute) friendly, no-pressure no-obligation call to explain everything to you personally and answer all your questions. Once you get in, you'll love them. I do. Sincerely, Yoshio Koseki ps. please forward a copy of this message to all your friends on the net who you think might be interested in it! It is a great deal! If you join and then they join after you, you will earn a free 1 yr. subscription for each new person you get to join after you join! If you exceed 25 referrals, they let you use them to give away as gifts, for Christmas, Chanukah or any other occasion. Please be kind enough to mention my name when you join. I will then get a free magazine for a year for referring you. Thank you. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 05 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!pimacc.pima.edu!east.pima.edu!gmcmillan Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio,bionet.plants,bionet.plants.education Subject: Re: Ideas for *real* SF writing workshop Message-ID: <1995Nov5.110010.1@east.pima.edu> From: gmcmillan@east.pima.edu Date: 5 Nov 95 11:00:10 MST Nntp-Posting-Host: east Nntp-Posting-User: gmcmillan Lines: 70 Xref: biosci bionet.population-bio:1637 bionet.plants:9092 bionet.plants.education:201 REQUEST FOR IDEAS: I am trying to put together a panel for next year's local Tucson, AZ, science fiction convention. Tying our science panels together with a follow-up to support creative activity has been lacking. There is very little to support young writers who might be more intellectually challenging than just spinners of Dungeons and Dragons-type stories. DO *YOU*HAVE ANY GERM IDEAS FOR SF BASED ON REAL SCIENCE THAT WE COULD THROW OUT TO A GROUP AND PLAY AROUND WITH? Background on the need for such a panel: ---------------------------------------- One of the interesting aspects of the growth of women's participation in SF and fantasy is that it has been steadily growing in the latter. The number of women who write stories that take, as their basis, a scientific, natural, or sociological phenomenon and logically explore its possibilities has been miniscule compared to the number of women who have taken up pen and sword to write sword and sorcery novels. I don't think that it would be over-interpretation to note that this is probably due to the conditioning that young girls get in school that steers them away from the sciences. The large market for space opera and fantasy may reflect the fact that there is a larger market for relaxation fiction than fiction that requires close attention and thought as some of the more tightly plotted hard science SF used to do. [There has always been a large dose of SF that was neither admirable from the literary standpoint, nor from the scientific, of course.] Our convention is niched by the dealers in the huckster room as a heavily "fantasy" con. So, little SF--even what there is out there-- shows up at the dealers' tables. What might help some younger writers to use science in their writing is some kind of a workshop during the Con where they could experiment with their ideas and beginnings for stories with a couple of scientists present along with a couple of writers... We had two panels devoted to science this time ("Why can't they get the science right?" and "New frontiers in Astronomy".) But there is no tie-in with writing when the science panels are held, unlike the mythic and costuming panels, which just sort of flow over into creative activities. The science panels seem to sit there, isolated, an obligatory lump, like wheeling old Aunt Margaret around after church so that she can nod at folks and they can nod back at her... Anyone interested in such a cross-cultural workshop: germinating ideas that could become science-based SF, especially encouraging young women writers? If so, I would be interested in hearing how you could envision some exercises that might act as spark plugs for this type of writing. I think that if more interest were shown and more support were given, we might have more activity on the science fiction front. Gloria McMillan *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu http://east.pima.edu/ ESSAY COOPERATIVE http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/glowww.html *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 05 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!interaccess!d215.nwchi.interaccess.com!eco From: eco@interaccess.com (Steve and Barbara Balkin) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: # of living vs # of dead people? Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 02:08:00 LOCAL Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Lines: 11 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: d215.nwchi.interaccess.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] Hello. I don't know if this is the right group to post this to, but here goes: We were having a discussion the other day about how much land is used for cemeteries, and someone asked if there are more people alive on earth, at this moment, than there are dead people (from throughout human history). Anyone have an answer? Thanks much. Barbara Balkin From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 05 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!thor.atcon.com!usenet From: cyrill@MAIL.ATCON.COM (Cyril Lundrigan) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio,alt.bbs.ads,alt.college.us,alt.business.misc Subject: WILDLIFE COMPUTER MODELLING SPECIALIST Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 22:13:08 GMT Organization: Western Newfoundland Model Forest, Inc. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <47lscp$u2n@thor.atcon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crb-d151.atcon.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 Xref: biosci bionet.population-bio:1639 alt.bbs.ads:24319 alt.college.us:4751 alt.business.misc:76867 Western Newfoundland Model Forest, Inc. 89 West Valley Road Corner Brook Newfoundland A2H 6P5 Tel: (709) 634-6383 Fax:(709) 634-0255 WILDLIFE COMPUTER MODELLING SPECIALIST One of the prime objectives of the Model Forest is to integrate timber and wildlife management into a unified decision support system. To achieve this objective the services of a wildlife computer modelling specialist is required to work with a team of wildlife specialists to develop or adapt computer-based wildlife population and habitat models to be run in conjunction with forestry timber supply models and utilizing data contained in, or which can be derived from, exisitng forestry-wildlife databases. The successful candidate for this position should be a wildlife biologist with extensive training and/or experience in manipulating digital databases with a working knowledge of forest-wildlife ecosystem dynamics. This is a two-year position situated in St. John's, Newfoundland. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Applications, consisting of resumes and references, must be submitted on or before Nov. 17, 1995 to: Western Newfoundland Model Forest, Inc. c/o General Manager 89 West Valley Road Corner Brook, Newfoundland Canada A2H 2X4 or email applications to : cyrill@atcon.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 06 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!noc.netcom.net!usenet From: "T.C." Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Top Biology & Botany Related Sites Date: 7 Nov 1995 14:54:02 GMT Organization: Point Communications Lines: 26 Message-ID: <47nrua$1jk@news2.noc.netcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.186.243.53 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: newsrc://nntp.noc.netcom.net/ Dear Friends: We鉅 like to invite you to check out our reviews of Biology & Botany-related sites. Point reviews and rates thousands of the very best sites on the Web, including sites in this area of interest. There零 no charge and no catch. We hope our lively, independent reviews will prove valuable to members of newsgroups like this one. We hope you雍l stop by at http://www.pointcom.com. Thanks for your time. The sites are rated from 0-50, in: Content, Presentation and Experience(sorted). The Mouse and Rat Research Home Page 42 30 45 Global Entomology Agriculture Research Server: GEARS 45 43 45 Whole Frog Project 44 32 40 Chez Marco Thuispagina 45 40 40 CELLS alive! 42 40 40 Arachnology 40 25 38 Irises 39 28 37 Hydroponics, Hydroponics, Hydroponics! 34 30 35 The A.S.U. Photosynthesis Center 38 32 34 Virology World Wide Web Server 41 30 33 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 08 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!night.primate.wisc.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!daily-planet.execpc.com!usenet From: solomon@execpc.com Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Population ponderings Date: 9 Nov 1995 23:03:57 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 6 Message-ID: <47u1ct$s3s@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rockbass.execpc.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) I dont know if this is appropriate for this group but here I go. When I was in grade school we were shown graphs of the population increase and explained the problems with overpopulation. "Start at 30" instead of "Stop at two" was brought up as well. I wonder if kids are still being exposed to these facts in school? Another thing that I wonder about is the saying "Ten percent of the population eats ninety percent of the food". If this is true then does that mean if we all change our ways that the earth could support ninety percent more people? From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Nov 09 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mid.net!crcnews.unl.edu!unlclass1.unl.edu!ep362b28 From: ep362b28@unlclass1.unl.edu (ep362b28) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: dead are dead Date: 10 Nov 1995 15:46:51 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 1 Message-ID: <47vs5b$8pm@crcnis3.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: unlclass1.unl.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 10 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!ccnews.ncku.edu.tw!sparc4!e6484226 From: e6484226@sparc4.cc.ncku.edu.tw () Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: test Date: 11 Nov 1995 08:57:30 GMT Organization: Computer Center, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <481ohq$8q3@ccnews.ncku.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc4.cc.ncku.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] i - 我不想為生活畫界線 讓每個明天都像今天 一定有許多的美好 站在陌生後面 趁著我還年輕 趁著心還很飛 再遙遠的夢都不害怕去追 趁著我還年輕 趁著心還能飛 多看看世界不要天天忙著後悔 r r C From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 10 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!newshub.cts.com!crash!mpavelka From: mpavelka@crash.cts.com (Mark Pavelka) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: HELP! Successful habitat restoration,... Date: 11 Nov 1995 05:50:30 GMT Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <481dj6$nen@news2.cts.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crash-i2.cts.com I am looking for ANY example of habitat enhancement, restoration, or creation that has resulted in a verifyable increase in ANY species. Examples of restoration or enhancement projects that have resulted in on-site increases in many species abound. However, the population and/or regional data are lacking to show that the increase was real and not just a redistribution of the plants or animals to the improved, and more favorable habitat. I desperately need an example of a comprhensive study that shows true increses can/do occur as the result of habitat improvement projects. If there is direct evidence to the contrary I would also be interested in it as well. Field, or in situ, projects are preferable but laboratory studies could also provide valuable information. Please e-mail any information you can provide to my e-mail box directly as posted responses may get missed. Thank you in advance for all the help. Mark Pavelka mpavelka@crash.cts.com From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 10 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!emf.emf.net!dummy From: dummy@emf.net (Robert) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 16:53:50 -0800 Organization: "emf.net" Quality Internet Access. (510) 704-2929 (Voice) Lines: 10 Message-ID: <480s7u$pdl@emf.emf.net> References: <47u1ct$s3s@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.149.0.20 In-Reply-To: Robert's message as of Nov 10, 3:59pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) Originator: dummy@emf.emf.net In article <47u1ct$s3s@daily-planet.execpc.com>, wrote: > I dont know if this is appropriate for this group but here I go. When I was in grade school we were shown graphs of the > population increase and explained the problems with overpopulation. "Start at 30" instead of "Stop at two" was brought up as > well. I wonder if kids are still being exposed to these facts in school? > Another thing that I wonder about is the saying "Ten percent of the population eats ninety percent of the food". If this is true > then does that mean if we all change our ways that the earth could support ninety percent more people? I doubt it. I certainly was never told any of this stuff when I was in elementary, secondary, or high school. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 10 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: yoshio@osak.ac.jp, agc03255@niftyserv.or.jp, agc03895@niftyserv.or.jp, abd03395@niftyserv.or.jp, nak@sinnica.edu.tw, chu@aoone.net.au, jtw@dialicks.co.nz, harry@nitec.ac.jp, leeni@osaka.ac.jp, gar@unee.edu, seng@pll.my, tov04894@ni Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: AOIS Approved News Release: World's *Cheapest* Way to get USA Magazine Subscriptions delivered to *any* country (1,500+ USA titles to choose from) + FREE 1 yr. subscription (choose from 295+ titles) Date: 11 Nov 1995 03:53:35 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 198 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: moderator Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: FREE-magazine-subscription-offer@0.5.5.1.7.6.9.8.1.7.1.tpc.int NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net -----> NOTE: Please first read my note which appears below the "Request for more info Form." Then, to get more info, just fill out the "Request for More Info" form completely and email it back to the company. To make it easier for you to reply, I have put their address in the "Reply-To" field, which means you can just use your email software to reply to this message in order to get that address to pop-up in your "To:" field. <----- *------------cut here-----------------------------------------------* REQUEST FOR MORE INFO: please return *only* this section only via internet email to: FREE-magazine-subscription-offer@0.5.5.1.7.6.9.8.1.7.1.tpc.int Sorry, but incomplete forms *will not* be acknowledged. If you do not have an email address, or access to one, they will not be able to help you until you do have one. If you saw this message, then you should have one. :) Name: Internet email address: Smail home address: City-State-Zip: Country: Work Tel. #: Work Fax #: Home Tel. #: Home Fax #: How did you hear about us (name of person who referred you or the area of the internet that you saw us mentioned in): Referral by Yoshio Koseki. 111195-l Name of USA mags you currently get on the newstand or in the store: Name of USA mags you currently get on the newstand or in the store: Name of USA mags you currently get on a subscription basis, through the mail: Name of USA mags you would like price quotes on when we call you: Catalogue format desired (list "1," "2," "3" or "4"): *------------cut here-----------------------------------------------* Catalogue Options: 1. 19-Part email- can be read by EVERYONE (~525 K Total). 2. For more advanced computer users: attached text file ~525K - you must know how to download an attached text file and then be able to open it with your word processor. If in doubt, don't ask for this version. This isn't for internet *newbies.* Better to order option 1 and spend a few minutes pasting them into one whole text document with your word processor, than to waste hours trying to figure how to deal with this option. 3. For more advanced Macintosh computer users: compressed attached text file, created with a Stuffit(tm) self-extracting archive (.sea), ~133K. Can be decompressed by any Macintosh computer user; no special expansion software or knowledge of Stuffit (tm) needed. You just double-click on the file icon and it automatically expands (unstuffs). This is for more advanced mac computer users only, as you still have to know how to deal with an attached file. It will cut your download time by 75%. Expands out to the same ~525K file in option #2. See option #2 for more info on what you will need to be able to do. 4. For expert computer users: compressed attached text file, created with Stuffit(tm), ~114K. Can be decompressed by any computer user who has expansion software to decompress (expand) Stuffit(tm) (.sit) files. This is for more advanced computer users only and will cut your download time by 78%. Expands out to the same ~525K file in option #2. See option #2 for more info on what you will need to be able to do. Hi fellow 'netters, My name is Yoshio Koseki and I recently started using a magazine subscription club in the USA that has a FREE 1 yr. magazine subscription deal with your first paid order- and I have been very pleased with them. They have over 1,500 different USA titles that they can ship to any country on a subscription basis. As for computer magazines from the USA, they more of a selection than I ever knew even existed. They have magazines for most every area of interest in their list of 1,500 titles. Within the USA, for their USA members, they are cheaper than all their competitors and even the publishers themselves. This is their price guarantee. Overseas, on the average, they are generally around one-fourth to one-half of what the newstands overseas charge locally for USA magazines. On some titles they are as little as one-tenth of what the newstands charge. They feel that mgazines should not be a luxury overseas. In the USA, people buy magazines and then toss them after reading them for just a few minutes or hours. They are so cheap in the USA! Well, this company would like to make it the same way for their overseas members. They are also cheaper than all their competitors in the USA and overseas, including the publishers themselves! This is their price guarantee. Around one-half their business comes from overseas, so they are very patient with new members who only speak limited English as a 2nd language. Their prices are so cheap because they deal direct with each publisher and cut-out all the middlemen. They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that they sell. Please do not email me as I am just a happy customer and a *busy* student. I don't have time to even complete my thesis in time, let alone run my part-time software business! Please fill out the below form and email to them at: FREE-magazine-subscription-offer@0.5.5.1.7.6.9.8.1.7.1.tpc.int *NOTE: to make it easier for you to reply, I have put their address in the "Reply-To" field, which means you can just use your email software to reply to this message in order to get that address to pop-up in your "To:" field.* They guarantee to beat all their competitors' prices. Sometimes they are less than half of the next best deal I have been able to find and other times, just a little cheaper - but I have never found a lower rate yet. They assured me that if I ever do, they will beat it. They have been very helpful and helped me change my address from the USA to Finland and then back again when I moved last month. They are very knowledgeable about addressing mags worldwide. They have a deal where you can get a free 1 yr. sub to a new magazine from a special list of over 300 popular titles published in the USA. They will give you this free 1 yr. sub when you place your first paid order with them to a renewal or new subscription to any of the over 1,500 different popular USA titles they sell. They can arrange delivery to virtually any country and I think they have clients in around 35 or 36 countries now. Outside the USA there is a charge for foreign postage and handling (on both paid and freebie subs) that varies from magazine to magazine. I have found their staff to be very friendly and courteous. They even helped me with an address change when I moved from one country to another. The owner thinks of his service as a "club" and his clients as "members" (even though there is no extra fee to become a member - your first purchase automatically makes you a member) and he is real picky about who he accepts as a new member. When he sets you up as a new member, he himself calls you personally on the phone to explain how he works his deal, or sometimes he has one of his assistants call. He is kind of quirky sometimes - he insists on setting up new members by phone so he can say hi to everyone (I sure wouldn't want to have his phone bills!), but you can place future orders (after your first order) via E-mail. He has some really friendly young ladies working for him, who seem to know just as much as he does about this magazine stuff. If you live overseas, he will even call you there, as long as you are interested, but I think he still makes all his overseas calls on the weekends, I guess cause the long distance rates are cheaper then. He only likes to take new members from referrals from satisfied existing members and he does virtually no advertising. When I got set-up, they had a 2-3 week waiting list for new members to be called back so that they could join up. (Once you are an existing member, they help you immediately when you call. ) I think they are able to get back to prospective new members the same day or within a few days now, as they have increased their staff. I am not sure about this.........but if you email the above form to them, that is the way to get started! They will send you their DELUXE EMAIL CATALOGUE (around 525K-big and juicey) !)...if you completely fill out the form above. It has lists of all the freebies, lists of all the titles they sell, titles broken down by categories and detailed descriptions on nearly 1,200 of the titles that they sell. They then send you email that outlines how his club works and the list of free choices that you can choose from, as well as the entire list of what he sells; and then they will give you a quick (3-5 minute) friendly, no-pressure no-obligation call to explain everything to you personally and answer all your questions. Once you get in, you'll love them. I do. Sincerely, Yoshio Koseki ps. please forward a copy of this message to all your friends on the net who you think might be interested in it! It is a great deal! If you join and then they join after you, you will earn a free 1 yr. subscription for each new person you get to join after you join! If you exceed 25 referrals, they let you use them to give away as gifts, for Christmas, Chanukah or any other occasion. Please be kind enough to mention my name when you join. I will then get a free magazine for a year for referring you. Thank you. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 10 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: IMPORTANT: BIOSCI miniFAQ Date: 11 Nov 1995 02:00:36 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 196 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199511111000.CAA29231@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is a new "miniFAQ" designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. Contents: -------- 1) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 2) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 3) How to access BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup archives. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 1) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups) and mailing lists. The same postings are distributed on both media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the newsgroups from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date. This means that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism. We are working on new systems to provide access to our newsgroups over the WWW. These should be available soon, probably November 1995, and will allow you to use your Web browser to look at the news postings. While this will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. 2) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., subscribe methods unsubscribe methods end Do NOT put your e-mail address or other text on these lines. The server only allows you to cancel your subscription if the address on your mail header matches the address on our mailing list. Please ask for help at biosci-help@net.bio.net if your address has changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells you that you are not a member. Users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asia who use the BIOSCI node at -------------------------------------------------------------------- computer daresbury.ac.uk (also known as dl.ac.uk): ------------------------------------------------- To subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the BIOSCI lists, you need to specify the full USENET newsgroup name with "bionet-news." prepended. The USENET newsgroup names are listed in the BIOSCI Information sheet on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 3) How to access BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup archives. -------------------------------------------------- Back postings of all BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups can be found on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. There are several searchable newsgroup indices at this site. E-mail users can search the BIOSCI archives by using our waismail e-mail server. For instructions send the message help to waismail@net.bio.net. Leave the Subject: line blank (anything entered on the Subject: line is ignored). 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Nov 11 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!torn!news.unb.ca!nwsb055.novlab.unb.ca!j5wd From: j5wd@unb.ca Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Help: Need Habitat Info on Cape May Warbler in N.A. Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 21:26:52 GMT Organization: University of New Brunswick Lines: 16 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: nwsb055.novlab.unb.ca X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1] Hi folks: I am designing a silvicultural system where I must graph the effects of each forestry intervention on the population of Cape May Warblers in my stand. The stand is completely under the "edge effect" so I am not expecting any nesting birds (or should I). I will be either strip or shelterwood cutting and replanting with Norway spruce (I heard that Cape mays go out of there way to hang around stands of this species). The final result will be an uneven aged Norway spruce stand (currently even Black spruce). If you know of any publications or other potential sources of information of population effects of forestry operations on this bird species, please let me know by e-mail (j5wd@unb.ca). Thanks a lot! Stephen Kull, B.A.Geog., BSc.Forestry student University of New Brunswick, Department of Forestry and Environmental Management From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Nov 11 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!galaxy.ucr.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!berlocher1.life.uiuc.edu!user From: qms1.life.uiuc.edu (Stewart Berlocher) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: speciation symposium web site Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 14:51:47 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois Lines: 44 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: berlocher1.life.uiuc.edu ******* SECOND SYMPOSIUM AND WEB SITE ANNOUNCEMENT ******* >>> PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES <<< E N D L E S S F O R M S: S P E C I E S A N D S P E C I A T I O N Symposium in Honor of Guy L. Bush Organizers: Daniel Howard and Stewart Berlocher In the first notice for the meeting, we indicated that a Web site would be set up to provide more information, and update information (such as the fact that Science is sending a reporter), for the May 19-23, 1996 meeting at Asilomar. That site is now functioning (but you may not find it yet using a search program because it takes a few weeks for sites to be indexed). The location is http://www.life.uiuc.edu/berlocher/symposium/ Response to the meeting has been very good, but there are still places left (meeting registration is limited to 200); to ensure your attendance, register soon. For a copy of the original ad or other information, write S. Berlocher at stewartb@uiuc.edu or stewart_berlocher@qms1.life.uiuc.edu. Please forgive us if you receive more than one copy of this notice - there is some overlap of our mailing list and the various listservers we have utilized. * Species Concepts * Geography, Ecology, and Population * Structure * Mate Recognition and Reproductive Isolation * * Species boundaries * Evolution of Novelty * The Genetics of Reproductive Isolation * * Arnold * Berlocher * Bush * Butlin * Feder * Grant * * Harrison * Howard * Johnson * Lessios * MacNair * * Mallet * Markow * Martinez Wells * McCune * Menken * * Mercer * Naviera * Palumbi * Pashley * Patton * * Ritchie * Rice * Roth * Schluter * Shaw * * Spirito * Templeton * Wake * Werren * From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Nov 11 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.Edu.TW!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!ccnews.ncku.edu.tw!sparc2!e6484226 From: e6484226@sparc2.cc.ncku.edu.tw () Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: test Date: 12 Nov 1995 07:12:48 GMT Organization: Computer Center, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Lines: 3 Message-ID: <4846pg$3l8@ccnews.ncku.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc2.cc.ncku.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] i JUST A TEST From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 12 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!berlocher1.life.uiuc.edu!user From: qms1.life.uiuc.edu (Stewart Berlocher) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: JOB IN INSECT ECOLOGY Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 21:31:00 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois Lines: 31 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: berlocher1.life.uiuc.edu **JOB ADVERTISEMENT**JOB ADVERTISEMENT**JOB ADVERTISEMENT** **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - Insect Ecologist** **University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign** **APPEARING IN THE NOVEMBER 10TH ISSUE OF SCIENCE** The Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a full-time tenure-track position available at the rank of assistant professor for an insect ecologist, starting August 1996. Candidates should have a Ph.D. and expertise in insect-plant interactions at any level of biotic organization (molecular, physiological, population, community, ecosystem, or evolutionary ecology). Experience in applied entomology is desirable; a strong background in basic biology is essential. Responsibilities include maintaining an active research program and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Qualified individuals are invited to submit vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, and four letters of recommendation to: Stewart H. Berlocher, Chair; Search Committee; Department of Entomology; University of Illinois; 320 Morrill Hall; 505 S. Goodwin; Urbana, IL 61801-3795; Telephone (217) 333- 2929; FAX (217) 244-3499. In order to receive full consideration, application materials must be received by January 3, 1996. Interviews may be conducted before the closing date, but no final decision will be made before that time. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 13 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshost.nmt.edu!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lille1.fr!cict.fr!news From: fourcass@cict.fr (fourcass) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Washington convention Date: 13 Nov 1995 19:32:53 GMT Organization: Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Psychologie Animale Lines: 12 Sender: fourcass@oceane.cict.fr Message-ID: <4886h5$9af@news.cict.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.120.104.11 X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.4@130.120.104.11 X-Authenticated: fourcass on POP host oceane.cict.fr I am trying to get the list of endangered species of the Washington wildlife convention. Does anyone know of any Intenet site where I could retrieve it? Thanks. 0---------------------------------------------------------------------0 I V. Fourcassie I I Laboratoire d'Ethologie et Psychologie Animale I I Universite Paul Sabatier I I Toulouse FRANCE I 0---------------------------------------------------------------------0 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 13 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!hyperion.wright.edu!alpha.wright.edu!discover!s008djb From: DANIEL BUMBARGER Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:05:43 -0500 Organization: Wright State University Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <47u1ct$s3s@daily-planet.execpc.com> <480s7u$pdl@emf.emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: discgate.wright.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: s008djb@discover In-Reply-To: <480s7u$pdl@emf.emf.net> On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Robert wrote: > In article <47u1ct$s3s@daily-planet.execpc.com>, wrote: > > I dont know if this is appropriate for this group but here I go. When I was in grade school we were shown graphs of the > > population increase and explained the problems with overpopulation. "Start at 30" instead of "Stop at two" was brought up as > > well. I wonder if kids are still being exposed to these facts in school? > > Another thing that I wonder about is the saying "Ten percent of the population eats ninety percent of the food". If this is true > > then does that mean if we all change our ways that the earth could support ninety percent more people? I am a 4th yr student at Wrigght Sate Universsity and I wass never taught about human populatioon problems at any point in my educatiion excpet for briefly in the ecology class I am taking now. I thinnk its a shame and an embarassment as I percieve it to be the most importrant global social issue we'll have to deal with in our lifetimes. There are some good books on the subject, including Ehrlich and Ehrlich's "population explosion." It expresses the issue from kind of an extremist standpoint but it does act aas an eye opener to what is going on. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Nov 14 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!PARK.BU.EDU!cas-cns From: cas-cns@PARK.BU.EDU (CAS/CNS) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: BU - Cognitive & Neural Systems Date: 15 Nov 1995 08:33:14 -0800 Organization: Boston University - Dept. of Cognitive & Neural Systems Lines: 292 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199511151618.LAA28690@cns.bu.edu> Reply-To: cas-cns@PARK.BU.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ************************************************************** DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS) AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY ************************************************************** Ennio Mingolla, Acting Chairman, 1995-96 Stephen Grossberg, Chairman Gail A. Carpenter, Director of Graduate Studies The Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems offers comprehensive graduate training in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of technological problems. Applications for Fall, 1996, admission and financial aid are now being accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs. To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of application materials, write, telephone, or fax: DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE & NEURAL SYSTEMS 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 617/353-9481 (phone) 617/353-7755 (fax) or send via email your full name and mailing address to: rll@cns.bu.edu Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by the Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Late applications will be considered until May 1; after that date applications will be considered only as special cases. Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in the candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may be waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD candidates, but absence of these scores may decrease an applicant's chances for admission and financial aid. Non-degree students may also enroll in CNS courses on a part-time basis. Description of the CNS Department: The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of technological problems. Students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning cognitive and neural systems, including vision and image processing; speech and language understanding; adaptive pattern recognition; cognitive information processing; self-organization; associative learning and long-term memory; computational neuroscience; nerve cell biophysics; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement, motivation, and attention; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; active vision; and biological rhythms; as well as the mathematical and computational methods needed to support advanced modeling research and applications. The CNS Department awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees. The CNS Department embodies a number of unique offerings. It has developed a curriculum that features 15 interdisciplinary graduate courses each of which integrates the psychological, neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information needed to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind and brain processes and the applications of neural networks to technology. Each course is typically taught once a week in the evening to make the program available to qualified students, including working professionals, throughout the Boston area. Nine additional research course are also offered. In these courses, one or two students meet regularly with one or two professors to pursue advanced reading and collaborative research. Students develop a coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes courses in areas such as Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS Department. The CNS Department prepares students for PhD thesis research with scientists in one of several Boston University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most closely linked to the department is the Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS). Students interested in neural network hardware work with researchers in CNS, the College of Engineering, and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Other research resources include distinguished research groups in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology at the Medical School and the Charles River campus; in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and neuromuscular research within the Engineering School; in dynamical systems within the Mathematics Department; in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science Department; and in biophysics and computational physics within the Physics Department. In addition to its basic research and training program, the Department offers a colloquium series, seminars, conferences, and special interest groups which bring many additional scientists from both experimental and theoretical disciplines into contact with the students. The CNS Department is moving in October, 1995 into its own new four-story building, which features a full range of offices, laboratories, classrooms, library, lounge, and related facilities for exclusive CNS use. 1995-96 CAS MEMBERS and CNS FACULTY: Jelle Atema Professor of Biology Director, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) PhD, University of Michigan Sensory physiology and behavior Aijaz Baloch Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Electrical Engineering, Boston University Neural modeling of role of visual attention of recognition, learning and motor control, computational vision, adaptive control systems, reinforcement learning Helen Barbas Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Boston University PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the neocortex Jacob Beck Research Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Psychology, Cornell University Visual Perception, Psychophysics, Computational Models Daniel H. Bullock Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Psychology, Stanford University Real-time neural systems, sensory-motor learning and control, evolution of intelligence, cognitive development Gail A. Carpenter Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Pattern recognition, categorization, machine learning, differential equations Laird Cermak Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Medicine Professor of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College Director, Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center PhD, Ohio State University Michael A. Cohen Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Computer Science Director, CAS/CNS Computation Labs PhD, Psychology, Harvard University Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural modeling, dynamical systems H. Steven Colburn Professor of Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Audition, binaural interaction, signal processing models of hearing William D. Eldred III Associate Professor of Biology BS, University of Colorado; PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center Visual neural biology Paolo Gaudiano Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Computational and neural models of vision and adaptive sensory-motor control Jean Berko Gleason Professor of Psychology AB, Radcliffe College; AM, PhD, Harvard University Psycholinguistics Douglas Greve Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Stephen Grossberg Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering Director, Center for Adaptive Systems Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, Rockefeller University Theoretical biology, theoretical psychology, dynamical systems, applied mathematics Frank Guenther Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Biological sensory-motor control, spatial representation, speech production Thomas G. Kincaid Chairman and Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Signal and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive testing Nancy Kopell Professor of Mathematics PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Dynamical systems, mathematical physiology, pattern formation in biological/physical systems Ennio Mingolla Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology Acting Chairman 1995-96, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Psychology, University of Connecticut Visual perception, mathematical modeling of visual processes Alan Peters Chairman and Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine PhD, Zoology, Bristol University, United Kingdom Organization of neurons in the cerebral cortex, effects of aging on the primate brain, fine structure of the nervous system Andrzej Przybyszewski Senior Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems MSc, Technical Warsaw University; MA, University of Warsaw; PhD, Warsaw Medical Academy Adam Reeves Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University PhD, Psychology, City University of New York Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision William Ross Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems BSc, Cornell University; MA, PhD, Boston University Mark Rubin Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Physicist, Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA (on leave) PhD, Physics, University of Chicago Neural networks for vision, pattern recognition, and motor control Robert Savoy Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color, form, and motion perception Eric Schwartz Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering; and Anatomy and Neurobiology PhD, High Energy Physics, Columbia University Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural modeling Robert Sekuler Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center Jesse and Louis Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University AB,MA, Brandeis University; Sc.M., PhD, Brown University Allen Waxman Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory PhD, Astrophysics, University of Chicago Visual system modeling, mobile robotic systems, parallel computing, optoelectronic hybrid architectures James Williamson Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Image processing and object recognition. Particular interests are: dynamic binding, self-organization, shape representation, and classification Jeremy Wolfe Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Dept. Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract Research PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Nov 14 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!agate!keyfitz.qal.berkeley.edu!chung From: chung@keyfitz.qal.berkeley.edu (Robert Chung) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: # of living vs # of dead people? Date: 15 Nov 1995 18:39:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <48dc59$gbe@agate.berkeley.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: keyfitz.qal.berkeley.edu In article , Steve and Barbara Balkin wrote: >We were having a discussion the other day about how much land is used for >cemeteries, and someone asked if there are more people alive on earth, >at this moment, than there are dead people (from throughout human history). The classic reference in this area is Nathan Keyfitz's 1966 article, "How many people have lived on the earth?", Demography 3: 581-582. His conclusion was that about 5% of all the people in human history were alive then. He presents his calculations and method, so you can modify and revise them as you wish. --Robert Chung, Ph.D. (chung@demog.berkeley.edu) From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 15 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!usenet From: solomon@execpc.com Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: 16 Nov 1995 17:47:34 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 28 Message-ID: <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: arthurdent.execpc.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > DANIEL BUMBARGER writes: > On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Robert wrote: > > I am a 4th yr student at Wrigght Sate Universsity and I wass > never taught about human populatioon problems at any point in my > educatiion excpet for briefly in the ecology class I am taking now. I > thinnk its a shame and an embarassment as I percieve it to be the most > importrant global social issue we'll have to deal with in our lifetimes. I live in Milwaukee, I guess we have a higher occurance of kids having kids than other cities. It frustrates me to see a 21 year old with 4 kids. My #1 priority is the future of the human race. Second in my mind are the traditional thoughts involving procreation...wouldn't that be nice to raise a child, etc etc. I feel I am intelegent and altrusitic and I would hope my offspring would be as well but at this time, I just can't commit to bringing in even ONE more child. What if my kid disregards what I teach him/her about altruism and the human race and starts having kids at 16 years old and doesnt stop until they physically cannot any longer? And thier kids follow the lead of thier parents and do the same thing? I shudder at the thought! On the other hand, my future child just might act responsibly and do thier part in controlling the population. Who's to know? The point being many people who dont realize the impact of thier procreation are having kids like crazy and thier actions are keeping people like me from having just one. It's just not fair, I want to contribute to the gene pool but how can I knowing what I know? From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 15 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!news.wau.nl!usenet From: Maarten.vanhelden@medew.ento.wau.nl (Maarten van Helden) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: RFD sci.bio.entomology.homoptera Followup-To: news.groups Date: 16 Nov 1995 08:11:43 GMT Organization: ENTO Lines: 159 Message-ID: <48ernv$cgb@Trex.IenD.wau.nl> Reply-To: maarten.vanhelden@medew.ento.wau.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: flex064.dbh.wau.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) unmoderated group sci.bio.entomology.homoptera This is a formal Request for Discussion for the creation of the unmoderated Usenet newsgroup sci.bio.entomology.homoptera. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV). Do *NOT* vote now. 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DISTRIBUTION: This RFD will be cross posted to the following groups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, sci.agriculture, sci.bio.misc, sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera, sci.bio.entomology.misc, sci.bio.phytopathology, sci.research It will also be cross-posted to the following listservers Entomo-L Hympar-L Plant Resistance to Pests (PRP) newsletter Proponents: Maarten van Helden Yvan Rahbe Rufus Isaacs -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ||\\ //|| Dr. Maarten van Helden || \\// || Dept. of Entomology || \/ || Wageningen Agricultural University |||||||||| Binnenhaven 7, 6709 PD || || Wageningen, the Netherlands || || Tel +31-317-485118 Fax +31-317-484821 || || Email: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Wed Nov 15 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!news.igc.apc.org!cdp!zpgcomm From: Sharon Pickett Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: New Population Web page from ZPG Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:11:40 -0800 (PST) X-Gateway: notes@igc.apc.org Lines: 10 Zero Population Growth is pleased to announce that our world wide web page is now up and running. It can be found at http://www.zpg.org/zpg The site has a variety of resources from a population quiz to curriculum materials to legislative updates to population news to comprehensive population links as well as a catalog of ZPG publications. We encourage you to take a look and e-mail your From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Thu Nov 16 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!concert!gatech2!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!ts32-11.wla.ts.ucla.edu!ergun From: ergun@ucla.edu (Mehmet Ergun) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:41:47 Organization: UCLA Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts32-11.wla.ts.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com> solomon@execpc.com writes: >Path: nnrp.info.ucla.edu!info.ucla.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!usenet >From: solomon@execpc.com >Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio >Subject: Re: Population ponderings >Date: 16 Nov 1995 17:47:34 GMT >Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI >Lines: 28 >Message-ID: <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com> >References: >NNTP-Posting-Host: arthurdent.execpc.com >X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) There is very little ANYBODY can do about human population overgrowth... It is out of our hands and the problem is beyond any human control. Even in a hypothetical perfect world, if we were to somehow restrict the # of kids you can have to just two per couple, the size of the human population would still double in less than 30 years because of the age distribution weighted for females that have or will reach repoductive capability. What will happen is that we will, by artificial means, way overshoot the Earths carrying capacity and eventually the human death rate will rise dramaticlly until the population reaches equilibrium. So basically, my advice is, go ahead and have your kid, contribute to the gene pool, and dont worry so much about what it is completely out of anybody's hands. >> DANIEL BUMBARGER writes: >> On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Robert wrote: >> >> I am a 4th yr student at Wrigght Sate Universsity and I wass >> never taught about human populatioon problems at any point in my >> educatiion excpet for briefly in the ecology class I am taking now. I >> thinnk its a shame and an embarassment as I percieve it to be the most >> importrant global social issue we'll have to deal with in our lifetimes. >I live in Milwaukee, I guess we have a higher occurance of kids having kids >than other cities. It frustrates me to see a 21 year old with 4 kids. >My #1 priority is the future of the human race. Second in my mind >are the traditional thoughts involving procreation...wouldn't that be nice to >raise a child, etc etc. I feel I am intelegent and altrusitic and I would hope >my offspring would be as well but at this time, I just can't commit to >bringing in even ONE more child. >What if my kid disregards what I teach him/her about altruism and the human >race and starts having kids at 16 years old and doesnt stop until they > physically cannot any longer? And thier kids follow the lead of thier parents >and do the same thing? I shudder at the thought! >On the other hand, my future child just might act responsibly and do thier >part in controlling the population. Who's to know? > The point being many people who dont realize the impact of thier >procreation are having kids like crazy and thier actions are keeping people > like me from having just one. It's just not fair, I want to contribute to the >gene pool but how can I knowing what I know? From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 17 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!emf.emf.net!dummy From: dummy@emf.net (Robert) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: New Population Web page from ZPG Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:41:38 -0800 Organization: "emf.net" Quality Internet Access. (510) 704-2929 (Voice) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <48ja51$7ms@emf.emf.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.149.0.20 In-Reply-To: Robert's message as of Nov 17, 4:35pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) Originator: dummy@emf.emf.net In article , Sharon Pickett wrote: > > Zero Population Growth is pleased to announce that our world > wide web page is now up and running. It can be found at > > http://www.zpg.org/zpg > > The site has a variety of resources from a population quiz > to curriculum materials to legislative updates to population news > to comprehensive population links as well as a catalog of ZPG > publications. We encourage you to take a look and e-mail your It would be great if the legislative alerts were the same as the ZPG Action Alerts, i.e., people who visit the home page would know how to act to fight or encourage legislation. -- >> Make love, not more. << >> Homosexuality is not against nature; people are. << ** finger dummy@emf.net for PGP key ** From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Fri Nov 17 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!emf.emf.net!dummy From: dummy@emf.net (Robert) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:46:47 -0800 Organization: "emf.net" Quality Internet Access. (510) 704-2929 (Voice) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <48jaf5$8di@emf.emf.net> References: <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.149.0.20 In-Reply-To: Robert's message as of Nov 17, 4:29pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) Originator: dummy@emf.emf.net In article <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com>, wrote: > My #1 priority is the future of the human race. Second in my mind > are the traditional thoughts involving procreation...wouldn't that be nice to > raise a child, etc etc. I feel I am intelegent and altrusitic and I would hope > my offspring would be as well but at this time, I just can't commit to > bringing in even ONE more child. I feel the same. I may end up adopting instead. -- >> Make love, not more. << >> Homosexuality is not against nature; people are. << ** finger dummy@emf.net for PGP key ** From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Nov 18 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!usenet From: solomon@execpc.com Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: 19 Nov 1995 17:40:51 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 35 Message-ID: <48nq73$cur@daily-planet.execpc.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: albemuth.execpc.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > ergun@ucla.edu (Mehmet Ergun) writes: > Even in a hypothetical perfect world, if we were to somehow restrict the # of kids you > can have to just two per couple, the size of the human population would still > double in less than 30 years because of the age distribution weighted for > females that have or will reach repoductive capability. What about "start at thirty" instead of "stop at two"? If an 18 year old fills thier quota of 2 kids right away but I wait until I am 30 to start, then by the time my kid/s are only 6 years old thier kid/s will be ready to have kids of thier own (if they follow thier parents lead and start at 18). A full 12 year time span would exsist between our kids having the capacity to have kids of thier own. I don't have facts and figures at my finger tips but you are involved with UCLA, maybe you do. How many people typically die in a 12 year span? Consider leaps in techology in a typical 12 year span. It just seems to me if we give some of the older population a chance to expire and give the scientists a chance to develope better technology to deal with the increasing population before we start bringing in more humans, that would help to ease the burdon just a little. Do you agree in theory? > What will happen is that we will, by artificial means, way overshoot the Earths >carrying capacity and eventually the human death rate will rise dramaticlly until the > population reaches equilibrium. I definatly agree and the thought scares the heck out of me. At this point it is a matter of WHEN this is going to happen. Will individuals do thier part and at least TRY to control the population and put off the inevitable or will we say there's nothing we can do so lets breed like crazy while we can? Personally, I wouldn't want my kids to experience the expected dramatic rise in the death rate you mentioned whether it be from famine, disease, or violence. We can't avoid the fact that sooner or later this earth will not be able to support all of us but I believe we can postpone that situation through research and action in hopes of making our kids and grandkids lives bearable and hopefully fullfilling. My semi-educated opinion: It's not a lost cause....yet. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sat Nov 18 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!usenet From: solomon@execpc.com Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: 19 Nov 1995 17:49:42 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 7 Message-ID: <48nqnm$cur@daily-planet.execpc.com> References: <48jaf5$8di@emf.emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: albemuth.execpc.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) > dummy@emf.net (Robert) writes: > I feel the same. I may end up adopting instead. Good idea, I consider the same thing on ocassion but aren't you concerned about not contributing to the gene pool? Our unique seeds will be lost forever if we don't have children. It's a dilema! From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 19 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!ablecom!ns2.mainstreet.net!ftp.netgate.net!news From: Todd Hoff Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Would You? was Re: Population ponderings Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 08:13:08 -0800 Organization: Possibility Outpost Lines: 32 Message-ID: <30B0A914.246@possibility.com> References: <48nq73$cur@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sprite.possibility.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (Windows; I; 32bit) --solomon@execpc.com wrote: > I definatly agree and the thought scares the heck out of me. At this point it is a matter of > WHEN this is going to happen. Will individuals do thier part and at least TRY to control > the population and put off the inevitable or will we say there's nothing we can do so lets > breed like crazy while we can? Personally, I wouldn't want my kids to experience the > expected dramatic rise in the death rate you mentioned whether it be from famine, disease, > or violence. We can't avoid the fact that sooner or later this earth will not be able to support > all of us but I believe we can postpone that situation through research and action in hopes > of making our kids and grandkids lives bearable and hopefully fullfilling. > > My semi-educated opinion: It's not a lost cause....yet. Here's a question i have asked many people: If it were possible, say through a compound distributed in the air or some other non-coercive means, make all people infertile unless they took the antidote on a regular basis, would you press the button to make it happen? The scenario posits some brilliant biologist who dreamed up such a drug, distribution method, and antidote. The antidote will obviously be mass produced, but it would still change the default decision from do i want to prevent having a kid to do i want a kid. Would you? ------------------------------------------------------------------- tmh@possibility.com | Don't worry, spiders, http://www.possibility.com | I keep house | Casually. | - Issa From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Sun Nov 19 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!news From: Jonathan Adam Langley Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Population ponderings Date: 20 Nov 1995 22:40:09 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 13 Message-ID: <48r049$g9d@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n00040-104hlb.unity.ncsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) To: solomon@execpc.com X-URL: news:48ftfm$9kk@daily-planet.execpc.com I'm glad to find someone who shares my sentiments. I am far too young to need to make a decision, but I don't believe I could bear the guilt of bringing another human in to existence. To have a child would be enjoyable only if one doesn't consider the social and ecological costs. Its a burden to the race, the rest of the planet and the possibly child itself. I personally would love to pass along my genes. I could rationalize and proceed on the pretense that each couple is entitled to two offspring. The fact remains yet, there are too many people. I would be placing my own personal pleasure over the overall benefit of the rest of the world. Unfortunately, the rest of the world doesn't feel the same about me. Apparently, whether because of apathy or ignorance, they take no hand in our agonizing moral conflict. At least they can sleep at night. That is, if their children don't wake them. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 20 22:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!emr1!hilda.pnfi.forestry.ca!lmarshall From: lmarshall@pnfi.forestry.ca (Larry Marshall) Subject: Re: Population ponderings X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hilda.pnfi.forestry.ca Message-ID: Lines: 12 Sender: news@emr1.emr.ca Organization: Natural Resources Canada X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] References: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:06:24 GMT > "The tragedy of Homo sapiens is that those least fit to > survive, breed the most." > Karl Malthus Obviously Karl either didn't know the current definition of being 'fit' :-) ---------- Larry Marshall lmarshall@pnfi.forestry.ca Canadian Forest Service Voice:(613) 589-2880 Petawawa National Forestry Institute FAX:(613) 589-2275 From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 20 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!prodigy.com!usenet From: DWZU01A@prodigy.com (William Bryant) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Would You? was Re: Population ponderings Date: 21 Nov 1995 15:39:14 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Lines: 9 Distribution: world Message-ID: <48srr2$cf6@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> References: <48nq73$cur@daily-planet.execpc.com> <30b0a914.246@possibility.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: inugap2.news.prodigy.com X-Newsreader: Version 1.2 Would i? no- because that would mean that some, for some reason, would be deprived of their right to have children. IMHO, the best fantasy solution would be to have a completely reversible sterilization method applied to every child born. this would then be reversed at the persons request after age 18 say. this would necessitate 2 people both of whom desire to bring a child into the world. change the world in one generation. fantasy. BTW,am enjoying this newsgroup, nice refreshing rationality. From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Mon Nov 20 22:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!ay320 From: ay320@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Harald Wolf) Subject: Re: Population ponderings Message-ID: Sender: ay320@freenet3.carleton.ca (Harald Wolf) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:48:41 GMT Lines: 12 After some 20 years pondering this, I'm still not sure whether I should agree with this: "The tragedy of Homo sapiens is that those least fit to survive, breed the most." Karl Malthus -- *-------------------------------------------------------------* | Harald Wolf ay320@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (that's .CA | | (604) 479-9489 ux363@FreeNet.Victoria.BC.CA for Canada!) | *-------------------------------------------------------------* From owner-population-bio@net.bio.net Tue Nov 21 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!waikato!canterbury.ac.nz!MANUKA.lincoln.ac.nz!usenet From: Terry Brown Newsgroups: bionet.jobs.wanted,bionet.microbiology,bionet.population-bio,sci.research.postdoc Subject: Postdoc wtd: Ecological Simulation / Modelling Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 15:06:17 +1300 Organization: Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand Lines: 159 Message-ID: <30B28599.2A904DA2@tbrown.lvlham.lincoln.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: tbrown.lincoln.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.1 i486) To: tb Xref: biosci bionet.jobs.wanted:3326 bionet.microbiology:4021 bionet.population-bio:1675 sci.research.postdoc:3738 Ecosystem Modelling / Simulation I am seeking a post-doctoral type position in ecosystem modelling. I have a B.Sc.(Hons) in Microbial Ecology and a Ph.D. in Biological Systems Simulation. I have a wide ranging experience of simulating ecosystems, including spatial aspects, as well as an extensive knowledge of computer programming and data manipulation / analysis. I am interested in working in Canada, the US, the UK, or anywhere else in this field. My CV is below in text for, a postscript version and other information is available via. WWW from http://tbrown.lvlham.lincoln.ac.nz/~tb Pointers to groups working in the above field would also be greatly appreciated. Curriculum vitae Terry Nicholas Brown Lincoln Environmental email: brownt1@lincoln.ac.nz 64 7 838 5901 Work Private Bag 3062 Born: Oct. 31 1969 64 7 855 9001 Home Hamilton Marital status: Single 64 7 838 5372 Fax. NEW ZEALAND ___________________________________________________________________________ G e n e r a l - Ph.D. in Biological Systems Simulation. - B.Sc.(Hons) in Microbiology. - Interests in spatial aspects of ecosystems, and the application of simulation techniques to enhance understanding of ecosystem behaviour. ___________________________________________________________________________ A c a d e m i c h i s t o r y 1988 Entrance scholarship (one of 200 awarded nationally) to Canterbury University, New Zealand. Direct entry to Honours programme, undergraduate papers in cell biology, microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, physics, computing. Honours papers in Soil Microbiology (B+), Phycology (A-), Ecology (A-) and Plant Pathology (B). Honours project: Ecology and taxonomy of the terrestrial algae of Lake Ellesmere (A-). Gained B.Sc. Hons. (second class division one) in 1990. 1991 Enrolled in a doctoral programme at Lincoln University, New Zealand. Papers in differential equations (biological modelling) (A+), computing for research (simulation) (A+), biometrics (GLM) (A+) and biometrics (multivariate) (A+). Produced a simulation of the microbial ecosystem of Pinus radiata root systems with emphasis on armillaria root rot and a biocontrol agent. Developed a scheme to represent the variable three-dimensional structure of the root system at the individual root level, as a basis for a simulation model of disease spread and microbial interaction. The simulation required sophisticated visualisation procedures and system specific methods of validation. Graduated with a Ph.D. in Biological Systems Simulation in 1995. ___________________________________________________________________________ E x p e r i e n c e a n d E m p l o y m e n t 1990 Transect sampling and laboratory culturing of algae. Some SEM and TEM work. 1992-1993 Field work to characterise Pinus radiata root system morphology, including organisation of support staff. Graduate assistant in the Centre for Computing and Biometrics, Lincoln University; laboratory supervision and some lecturing. Wrote a graphical predator prey simulation as a teaching aid. Wrote software to interpret output from wool fibre measurement and insect tracking hardware. 1994-1995 Research scientist for Lincoln Environmental. Design and implementation of a simulation of the fate of nitrogen in dairy shed effluent applied to pasture. A layered, one-dimensional model of hydrological, chemical and biological processes, including a novel isotope labelling function. The position also involved extensive field scale lysimeter and laboratory work. Experienced in computer programming in C++, C, FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, Modula-2 , SIMSCRIPT, WWW (HTML, CGI), SAS, LaTeX, and 680x0 assembler. Brief introduction to Forth, ACSL, Macintosh OS and some GIS (ArcInfo, GRASS) work. Also broad experience with computer graphic techniques, Unix and MSDOS. ___________________________________________________________________________ O t h e r I n t e r e s t s Tramping, squash, voluntary conservation field work, scuba diving (P.A.D.I. Open Water certification). ___________________________________________________________________________ P u b l i c a t i o n s Some of these papers are available electronically either via. WWW from http://tbrown.lvlham.lincoln.ac.nz/~tb or via. FTP to tbrown.lvlham.lincoln.ac.nz in /pub/papers. Barkle, G., Brown, T., and Singleton, P. (1994). Enhancing denitrification in a land based effluent treatment system. In ASAE Conference on Engineering in Agriculture, Lincoln University. ASAE. Paper No. SEAg 94/014. Barkle, G., Brown, T., and Singleton, P. (1995). Lysimeter studies and model development for land based waste treatment. In The international symposium on water quality modeling, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ASAE. Brown, T. (1992). Flow a program to generate Flowcharts in the LaTeX picture environment. Internet distribution. Brown, T. (1993a). Programming plants. New Zealand Science Monthly, 4:11. Brown, T. (1993b). Validating models of complex, stochastic, biological systems. In McAleer, M. and Jakeman, A., editors, International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, volume 1, pages 145-150, Perth, Australia. University of Western Australia. Brown, T. (1994). Mapping and modelling 3-dimensional tree root architecture. In ASAE Conference on Engineering in Agriculture, Lincoln University. ASAE. Paper No. SEAg 94/021. Brown, T. (1995). Simulation of the development of the Root System and associated Microbial Communit