Robert Ledley papers

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Robert Ledley papers

http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/101493401

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Ledley, Robert Steven.

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[Wikipedia] Robert Steven Ledley (born 28 June 1924) pioneered the use of digital electronic computers in biology and medicine. In 1959 he wrote two influential articles in the journal Science: "Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis" (with Lee B. Lusted) and "Digital Electronic Computers in Biomedical Science". Both articles encouraged biomedical researchers and physicians to adopt computer technology. In 1960 he established the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), a non-profit r...