[Comp-neuro] C. Koch elected author/curator for "Neural Correlates of Consciousness" in Scholarpedia

[Eugene M. Izhikevich]

On behalf of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, Scholarpedia
conducted an election of authors for the article "Neural Correlates of 
Consciousness". The letter below was sent to Dr. Christof Koch, 
(Caltech), who already accepted the invitation.

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Dear Dr. Koch,

As you might know, Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia,
conducted an election of authors for the article "Neural Correlates of 
Consciousness" 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 Christof Koch
2 David John Chalmers
3 Patricia S. Churchland
4 Thomas Metzinger
5 Valerie Gray Hardcastle

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 3 July 2006 and ended today, engaging 113
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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