It was with great sadness that I learned of the death last year of the great computational neuroscientist and founding Editor of this journal, Daniel Amit. Daniel was a pioneer in the application to neuroscience of modelling principles common in physics. He was extremely influential in the birth of modern computational neuroscience in many other ways besides founding Network, as evidenced for instance by the thousands of citations to his seminal work on spin-glass models of neural networks with Gutfreund and Sompolinsky and his seminal 1989 textbook ‘Modeling Brain Function: The World of Attractor Neural Networks’ (Cambridge University Press). A more complete appreciation of his life and work appears after this Editorial, written by his former collaborator and Network Editorial Board Member, Nicolas Brunel.
On a happier note, it gives me great pleasure to acknowledge and thank the efforts of both Network's Editorial Board, and the many other scientists who have reviewed papers for ‘Network: Computation in Neural Systems’ since submissions became electronic in March 2006. The names of the Board members are given on the inside cover, and the names of the other reviewers are listed below. Obviously, the journal as we currently know would come to a halt without the selfless donation of time that so many scientists have made. I never fail to be impressed with the dedication of our reviewers, the huge contribution they make to the quality of the papers we publish, and the complete lack of self-interest usually displayed in carrying out this task. Once again, thank you.
Geoff Goodhill
Curtis Baker
Vijay Balasubramanian
Maxim Bazhenov
Jeffrey Beck
Sue Becker
Matthias Bethge
Kwabena Boahen
Mikael Boden
Vincent Bonin
Sebastien Bouret
Michael Breakspear
Paul Bressloff
Heinrich Bulthoff
Neil Burgess
Anthony Burkitt
Dan Butts
Miguel Carreira-Perpinan
Dmitri Chklovskii
Uri Eden
Bard Ermentrout
Adrienne Fairhall
Tamar Flash
Robert French
Andrew Gillies
Tim Gollisch
Kevin Gurney
Boris Gutkin
Mary Hayhoe
Jonathan Hunt
Michael Ibbotson
Adam Kepecs
Fred Kingdom
Emilio Kropff
Kit Longden
Eve Marder
Risto Miikkulainen
Aude Oliva
Bruno Olshausen
Jonathan Pillow
Ryan Prenger
David Redish
Edmund Rolls
Michele Rucci
Jurgen Schmidhuber
Alexey Semyanov
Tanya Sharpee
Anne Smith
Friedrich Sommer
Mandyam Srinivasan
Garrett Stanley
Mark Stopfer
Hirokazu Tanaka
Frederic Theunissen
Daniel Tranchina
Alessandro Treves
Arjen van Ooyen
Paul Verschure
Misha Vorobyev
Thomas Wachtler
Guy Wallis
Ben Willmore
Laurenz Wiskott
Gordon Wyeth
Johannes Zanker
Christoph Zetzsche
Li Zhaoping