Abstract

Optics is a lively science and has lots of young people in it these days. This journal is in its twenty-seventh year, and retirement has been exercising the minds of some-of-us around Applied Optics of late. This Journalism and Scholarship column caught our attention in the Christmas Eve edition of The New York Times, and is reprinted by permission.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

Patent files vs computer age

Edmund L. Andrews
Appl. Opt. 27(21) 4437-4590 (1988)

West Berlin reaches for old glory in science

Walter Sullivan
Appl. Opt. 27(2) 193-320 (1988)

Candidates are urged to pick science aides

Warren E. Leary
Appl. Opt. 27(15) 3051-3051 (1988)

The art of the possible

Appl. Opt. 27(18) 3944-3945 (1988)

Science can’t keep up with the flood of new journals

William J. Broad
Appl. Opt. 27(7) 1215-1325 (1988)