[Comp-neuro] Rodolfo Llinas elected author/curator of "Neuron" in Scholarpedia

[Eugene M. Izhikevich]

The election of authors for the article "Neuron" in the Encyclopedia of 
Computational Neuroscience is completed. The letter below was sent to 
Rodolfo Llinas from NYU, who already accepted the invitation.
See http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neuron
A few weeks ago, G. Buzsaki was elected for "Hippocampus".

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Dear Dr. Rodolfo Llinas,

As you might know, Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, 
conducted election of authors for the article "Neuron" with the goal to 
identify the best living expert to invite to write such an article. The 
nominees (in the order of nomination by the public) were
1. Gordon Shepherd
2. Pasko Rakic
3. Rodolfo Llinas
4. David McCormick
5. Terrence J. Sejnowski
As the editor-in-chief, it is my great privilege to let you know that 
you were elected to write this article for Scholarpedia 
(http://www.scholarpedia.org).

The election started on 11 May 2006 and ended today, engaging 118 
participants. Rules of the election are described in 
http://scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election
In summary, each participant can vote for no more than 3 candidates. 
Each vote is multiplied by the participant's Scholar Index, which 
reflects the expertise and usefulness of contributions of that person to 
Scholarpedia. (So that experts have greater weight in the election). 
Then, the weighted sum of the votes and a soft-max procedure is used to 
select the future author of the article.

I am sending you a short explanation of this project and the 
instructions to reserve the article in a separate letter. Please, let me 
know whether you could write this article withing a reasonable period of 
time.

Sincerely yours,
Eugene M. Izhikevich – Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free 
peer-reviewed encyclopedia.

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Eugene M. Izhikevich, Ph.D.,   http://www.izhikevich.com
The Neurosciences Institute,   Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu
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