Mariette dichristina biography of martin
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Mariette DiChristina is the dean of the College of Communication at Boston University and an internationally recognized science journalist.
Before arriving in 2019, DiChristina was the editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Scientific American, as well as executive vice president, magazines, of the magazine’s publisher, Springer Nature. The first woman to head Scientific American since its founding in 1845, she led the editorial team to honors including the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence. In her Springer Nature role, she oversaw an editorial and publishing staff of more than 160 people across 10 countries.
Previously, DiChristina served as president of the National Association of Science Writers and as executive editor of Popular Science, where she was named Editor of the Year by the magazine’s publisher, Times Mirror Magazines. She also served as a part-time adjunct associate professor and visiting scholar in the graduate Science, Health, and Envi
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New College of Communication Dean Is Scientific American Editor-in-Chief
Mariette DiChristina (COM’86) broke ground as first woman to helm historic publication, led its digital transformation
Mariette DiChristina created her own magazines about science and nature as a girl growing up in Westchester County, N.Y., hand drawing and writing stories about neighborhood wildlife, stapling pages together, and reading them to a captive audience of her two younger sisters.
For almost 20 years, DiChristina (COM’86) has mixed science and journalism on a much grander scale, first as the executive editor and since 2009 as the editor-in-chief of Scientific American.
And now she’s poised to write the next chapter in a distinguished career as the new dean of the Boston University College of Communication. Beginning August 15, she’ll oversee 83 full-time and 107 part-time faculty, 45 staffers, and more than 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students in advertising, communication, emerging me
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Scientific American
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Scientific American,
a popular science magazine, founded by uppfinnare and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four page weekly newspaper. Since 2009, Mariette DiChristina is the eighth editor-in-chief. Martin Gardner was author of the Mathematical Games column from 1956 to 1981 [2][3]. Occasionally, Scientific American had notable articles on AI and computer chess topics.
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- Claude Shannon (1950). A Chess-Playing Machine. Scientific American, Vol. 182 (No. 2, February 1950), pp. 48-51. Reprinted in The World of Mathematics, edited by James R. Newman, Simon & Schuster, fräsch, Vol. 4, 1956, pp. 2124-2133. Included in Part B
- Alex Bernstein, Michael dem V. robert (1958). Computer vs. Chess-Player. Scientific American, Vol. 198, pp. 96-105. pdf from The Computer History Museum, reprinted 1988 in Computer Chess Compendium » The Bernstein Chess Program