Connectionists: Gyorgy Buzsaki elected author/curator of "Hippocampus" in Scholarpedia

[Eugene M. Izhikevich]

The election of authors for the article "Hippocampus" in the 
Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience is completed. The letter 
below was sent to Gyorgy Buzsaki from Rutgers University. If Dr. Buzsaki 
accepts the invitation, he will be the first elected author/curator of 
Scholarpedia.

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Dear Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki,

As you might know, Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, 
conducted election of authors for the article "Hippocampus" with the 
goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write such an 
article. The nominees (in the order of nomination) were
1. Gyorgy Buzsaki
2. Bruce McNaughton
3. Lynn Nadel
4. David Redish
5. Douglas A. Nitz
6. Richard G. M. Morris
7. Menno P. Witter
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 May 2006 and ended on 5 February 2007, 
engaging 103 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.

The Neurosciences Institute,   Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu
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