Center Stage seeks experienced Grants Manager. The Grants Manager is responsible for all government and foundation funding including extensive prospect research and cultivation of existing funders. A major focus will be prospect research and strategy development. Primary duties include managing grant application process for federal, state, and local government entities, as well as local and national foundations; preparing application proposals for both annual and special project funding; managing proposal and reporting deadlines.

Seasons Greetings Everyone:

It’s that time of year again! The time when we gather with our loved ones to deck the halls with boughs of holly and to roast chestnuts on an open fire! Since the holidays are right around the corner, our office will be closed from December 24^th to January 4^th and will reopen on Monday, January 5^th.

If you have any questions that seek immediate attention, please contact our office today (Monday, December 22, 2014) and tomorrow (Tuesday, December 23, 2014) between the hours of 8:30 am-4:30 pm.

Happy Holidays from the Admissions Office!

Seasons Greetings Everyone:

It’s that time of year again! The time when we gather with our loved ones to deck the halls with boughs of holly and to roast chestnuts on an open fire! Since the holidays are right around the corner, our office will be closed from December 24^th to January 4^th and will reopen on Monday, January 5^th.

If you have any questions that seek immediate attention, please contact our office today (Monday, December 22, 2014) and tomorrow (Tuesday, December 23, 2014) between the hours of 8:30 am-4:30 pm.

Happy Holidays from the Admissions Office!

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2015 admissions to our BIOLOGY Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the American Museum of Natural History.  Details about the program can be found on our website: http://www.amnh.org/our-research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/academics-and-research/fellowship-and-grant-opportunities/undergraduate-fellowships

To apply, please go to our application website: https://myrggs.amnh.org/Applicant/ApplyOnline_Login.aspx.  Please note that the application deadline for BIOLOGY REU admission is January 30, 2015.

 Please contact Maria Rios at mrios@amnh.org if you need any further information.

Jeff Shager’s Genealogy of Eliza project has added a BBN LISP version of DOCTOR from 1966 that was recovered from a paper tape. Eliza is the classic conversational program written by Joseph Weizenbaum and and described in a 1966 CACM paper, “ELIZA–a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine“. Weizenbaum wrote Eliza in his Lisp-like SLIP programming language, which ran on an IBM 7094 computer.

BBNer Bernie Cosell wrote this first Lisp version in BBN LISP and based it on the description and examples he read in the CACM paper. The recovered code is in Jeff’s github repository and an emulator that can run it is promised soon.

This is probably pretty close to the MACLISP version of DOCTOR that I played with in the early 1970s. I still have some DECtapes with old files from those days — maybe I’ll find that version of DOCTOR on one of them.