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jdgaz said:

I am going to bet that a lot of people find this helpful.

William C. Dement
Born	July 29, 1928 (age 90) Wenatchee, Washington, United States
Residence	United States
Education	University of Chicago
Scientific career
Institutions	Stanford University

William Charles Dement (born July 29, 1928) is an American sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University. He is a leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy. For this pioneering work in a previously uncharted field in the United States, he is sometimes referred to as the American father of sleep medicine.

Contents

• 1Biography
• 2Selected publications
• 3See also
• 4References
• 5External links

Dement was born in Wenatchee, Washington in 1928.[1] In the 1950s, of those who also studied at the University of Chicago[2] he was the first to intensively study the connection between rapid eye movement and dreaming. His fellow student Eugene Aserinsky had mentioned to him that "Dr. Kleitman and I think these eye movements might be related to dreaming".[3] Aserinsky, along with his and Dement's adviser Nathaniel Kleitman, had previously noticed the connection but hadn't considered it very interesting. Dement had an interest in psychiatry, which in those days considered dreams to be important, so he was excited by the discovery and was eager to pursue it. He began his work in sleep deprivation at Mount Sinai Hospital in the late 1950s – the early 1960s. He was among the first researchers to study sleeping subjects with the electroencephalogram (EEG), and he wrote "I believe that the study of sleep became a true scientific field in 1953, when I finally was able to make all-night, continuous recordings of brain and eye activity during sleep." Studying these recordings, he discovered and named the five stages of sleep.[3] In collaboration with Dr. Christian Guilleminault, Dement proposed the measure that is still used for the clinical definition of sleep apnea and the rating of its severity, the Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI).[4]

Dement, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, teaches the large and popular "Sleep and Dreams" course at Stanford, which started in 1971.

In 1975 he launched the American Sleep Disorders Association, now known as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and served as president for its first twelve years. In that same year he and Mary Carskadon invented the Multiple Sleep Latency Test used to measure sleepiness, a test of how quickly people fall asleep, sleep onset latency, during several daytime opportunities.

He was also chairman of the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, whose final report led directly to the creation of a new agency within the National Institutes of Health, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research.

Dement is the author of The Promise of Sleep[3] and The Sleepwatchers, and has written the first undergraduate textbook in the field.[citation needed].  The Promise of Sleep along with a cameo appearance of himself was featured in the 2012 independent comedy film Sleepwalk with Me.

At the start of his academic career, he was a jazz musician and played bass. While at the University of Washington he jammed with Quincy Jones, a time during which he also befriended Ray Charles. During the late 80s, while at Stanford, he was known to have played, on at least one occasion, with artist-in-residence, Stan Getz.[5]

He lives with his family in northern California.

StrangeDays said:

MplsP said:

Ditto all the 'magical' comments above! it always seems like it's Phil Schiller using the word to try and convince us something's great. Just make a great product and it will speak for itself.

As far as the iPad goes, does anyone know if it change the speaker channels based on orientation? I kind of assume it does, simply because that's the kind of attention do detail that makes Apple products great. 

Er, you do realize Schiller is Apple’s head of marketing, right? And convincing people a product is great is the job of marketing, right?

While you may be of the opinion that all you gotta do is “build it and they will come”, that isn’t the case. Speaking as an entrepreneur and product builder, it’s not enough to make a great thing. You absol have to learn how to market it. Nerding our won’t suffice, you need people who can sell the sizzle. 

appleismymiddlename said:

IMHO, the use of term “magical” isn’t meant for us techies who know more about the inner workings rather it is for the regular customers whom I have actually heard call technical wonders, “magical.”

So many techies on this forum whom whine about terms Apple uses to describe the product that average consumers relate with just need to get over it! Again, IMHO.  

MacPro said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

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AppleInsider said:

Hoping to become the go-to news source for next Tuesday's voting, Apple is reportedly set to replace its current Midterm Elections hub in Apple News with an "Election Night" version, in which people will be able to get real-time information on the balance of the Senate and House.

The Apple News Election Night hub.

Apple is linking with the Associated Press for real-time data, which will translate into a variety of infographics covering state and federal levels. These should "tick" every minute, TechCrunch indicated on Friday.

Notifications will be pushed out once the Democrats or the Republicans take control of an institution. Apple is also planning a "Key Races" section, and yet another dedicated to breaking stories gathered from sources like CNN, Fox News, Axios, Politico, and the Washington Post.

ABC and NBC will offer live video feeds, while CNN, CBS, and Fox News will offer video clips. People won't have to authenticate with a TV provider to watch, Apple said.

As with the rest of Apple News, Election Night will be highly curated. Nov. 6 should be an "all-hands-on-deck type of situation," according to TechCrunch.

Apple has opted for curation over algorithms in Apple News. The service's rivals, such as Facebook and Twitter, have often struggled to keep up against the flood of bogus information published and relayed by users, in some cases planted by governments like Russia to influence politics.

How do you curate real-time information?

The same way that they do it now.

Haha, I saw what you did there.

AppleInsider said:

Hoping to become the go-to news source for next Tuesday's voting, Apple is reportedly set to replace its current Midterm Elections hub in Apple News with an "Election Night" version, in which people will be able to get real-time information on the balance of the Senate and House.

The Apple News Election Night hub.

Apple is linking with the Associated Press for real-time data, which will translate into a variety of infographics covering state and federal levels. These should "tick" every minute, TechCrunch indicated on Friday.

Notifications will be pushed out once the Democrats or the Republicans take control of an institution. Apple is also planning a "Key Races" section, and yet another dedicated to breaking stories gathered from sources like CNN, Fox News, Axios, Politico, and the Washington Post.

ABC and NBC will offer live video feeds, while CNN, CBS, and Fox News will offer video clips. People won't have to authenticate with a TV provider to watch, Apple said.

As with the rest of Apple News, Election Night will be highly curated. Nov. 6 should be an "all-hands-on-deck type of situation," according to TechCrunch.

Apple has opted for curation over algorithms in Apple News. The service's rivals, such as Facebook and Twitter, have often struggled to keep up against the flood of bogus information published and relayed by users, in some cases planted by governments like Russia to influence politics.