Lifetime Achievement Award: Aljoscha Neubauer
Aljoscha Neubauer of the University of Graz has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence, ISIR’s highest honor. Aljoscha obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, Austria in 1986 and subsequently obtained his venia docendi (habilitation) in 1994 on the topic of intelligence and information processing speed. His experimental and meta-scientific work in this area contributed substantially to the understanding of the efficiency of neural networks.
His background in neuroscience led him to becoming ...
Matt McGue: ISIR 2022 Distinguished Contributor Interview (video)
At our 2022 conference at the University of Vienna, we were treated to a fantastic interview by David Lubinski of Matt McGue, this year's pick for the Distinguished Contributor Interview! Professor McGue is beloved within the University of Minnesota's psychology department, where he is Regents Professor and co-director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research, as well as in the broader community of behavioral genetics and intelligence research. An author of over 375 papers with nearly 75,000 citations as of 2022, Matt has won the Dobzhansky Award for ...
Conference poster guidelines
We've received a few questions about poster size and format for the upcoming conference. Poster presenters should aim for a poster with dimensions about 84 x 119 cm (corresponds to about 33 x 47 inches).
Apart from size, we do not have any formalized requirements for design or format of your poster. Posters should ideally be easy-to-read, with clearly outlined sections and text that's large enough to read from a normal standing distance. The NYU has an excellent set of poster guidelines that will apply to posters at most academic conferences:
What makes a good ...
2021 Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor Richard J. Haier
ISIR has awarded Richard Haier its highest honor: the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. After obtaining a PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1975 (working in part with Julian Stanley), his was the first study designed to understand the role of brain function – measured with glucose metabolism (using Positron Emission Tomography: PET, in 1988) – during performance of a measure of abstract reasoning. Interestingly, the relationships were inverse, with higher scores being associated with lower glucose metabolism, a finding that ...
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award for Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski
ISIR Lifetime Achievement Award
ISIR has awarded Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski its highest honour: the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. Congratulations to them both.
Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski are best known for leading the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). This study is globally unique: five cohorts of intellectually talented youth identified over 25 years (1972-1997) and longitudinally tracked throughout their lifespan. Their work has identified educationally ...
