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David Sankoff's projects:
a biased sample of the first 25 years
Vieques, Puerto Rico
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1963
Vaccinia virus is well known for its role as a
vaccine (its namesake) that eradicated the
smallpox disease, making it the first human
disease to be successfully eradicated by
science.
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1963
McGill’s Digital Collection of Yearbooks
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1967
David Sankoff, How to predict the evolution of a bilingual
community, in Social lives in languages (2008).
"Working for the Bureau of Statistics of Papua and New Guinea in 1967,
I carried out a territory-wide population projection, based on a complete
collection of village patrol reports and some birth records from a small
sample of hospitals."
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1969
On page 110:
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1969
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1969
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1972
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1973
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1973
All of our trade tools are
there... Comparative
genomics, as we know it,
will soon turn 40!
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197? Robert J. Cedergren and David Sankoff (reading gels?)
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1974
VARBRUL: Software implementing a key methodological tool of variationist
sociolinguistics: the variable rule program. Still in use after almost 40 years!
[1] Est-ce vrai? (Is it true?)
[2] C'est-tu vrai?
Example
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1981
Pèse sur la clutch, mets-toi au neutre,
stoppe, embraye...
Example
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198?
During the 1980's, biochemist
Robert Cedergren, seconded
by David Sankoff, formed the
first research group in
bioinformatics at the
Université de Montréal.
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1984 Meeting at Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour, France,
(photo borrowed from the website of Mike Waterman)
Gene Myers and
David Sankoff
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1990? Meeting at Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour, France,
(photo borrowed from the website of Mike Waterman)
Gene Myers and
David Sankoff
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1987
Dmitri Shostakovich – Waltz No. 2
"Query-by-Humming"
The Mongeau-Sankoff Algorithm for
the comparison of musical sequences.