Dear Colleague,
The goal of Scholarpedia is to invite today's living legends to write
articles on the topics of their expertise, so that these articles are
maintained by the future generation of experts, say 50 years from now.
Whenever possible, editors of Scholarpedia choose the original
authors, i.e., those who made the discoveries and inventions, e.g.,
Gene Roberts, the discoverer of GABA in the brain, was invited for
"GABA", Seiji Ogawa, the inventor of fMRI, was invited for
"fMRI", Paul C. Lauterbur, the co-inventor of MRI, was invited to
write "MRI", Karl Friston, the inventor of SPM, was invited to write
"SPM", Peter J. Basser, the inventor of DTI, was invited to write
"DTI" (this article is not finished yet), Anthony Barker, the
inventor of TMS, was invited to write "TMS", and so on. Identifying
such "originals" requires considerable time and effort.
There is a class of encyclopedic entries where it is obvious who the
author should be - eponymous ("named") articles. Indeed, J. J.
Hopfield should be invited for "Hopfield network", T. Kohonen should
be invited for "Kohonen network", R. FitzHugh should be invited for
"FitzHugh-Nagumo model", Y. Sinai should be invited for
"Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy", Wilfrid Rall for "Rall model", L. Chua
for "Chua circuit", and so on (all these original experts have
already written their articles).
The editor-in-chief of Scholarpedia asks the help of the community to
identify such "named articles". The instructions of how to
nominate/suggest authors are at
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Suggest_authors
The named articles could be in any field of science, not necessarily
neuroimaging. Please, make sure to provide valid email address of the
invitee. Only "named topics" are accepted at the present time.
Fill if the form provided in the website above and send your
nominations to <[log in to unmask]>. If you want your name
to be acknowledged at the bottom of the article (when the original
author accepts the invitation, you need to register in Scholarpedia).
Yours,
Eugene
Eugene M. Izhikevich, [log in to unmask]
The Neurosciences Institute, http://www.izhikevich.com
10640 John J. Hopkins Drive tel:(858) 626-2063
San Diego, CA, 92121, USA fax:(858) 626-2099
