Slashdot | Open Source Requirements Management Systems? Open Source Requirements Management systems? Posted by Cliff on It comes down to human skills and training and doctrine process groups and invoking activities such as risk management http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/10/05/0131205.shtml?tid=156
[yak@collab] Call For Papers - AI And Philosophy And Collaboration that facilitate the existence of cointentionality amongst human participants ofa system are highly The body of the manuscript should include a 100-word http://collab.blueoxen.net/forums/yak/2004-03/msg00112.html
Extractions: yak Top All Lists Date Advanced ... Thread from [ John Sechrest Bookmark Link Original To From sechrest@xxxxxxxx Date Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:33:53 -0800 Message-id 200403262133.i2QLXr507597@jas.peak.org For people chasing papers, this seems very interesting. - Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:04:56 -0500 Subject: AI & Society International Journal Call for Papers From: "Seth Casana" <totallymeat@cmu.edu> To: scasana@andrew.cmu.edu (NOTE: The following offer has a special extended abstract deadline, April 2, 2004, for iacap.org subscribers.) The following message has been cropped. To see the full message, visit: http://www.iacap.org/ai_society.htm Special Issue of AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence on "Collaborative Distance Activities: From Social Cognition to Electronic Togetherness" Dr. Colin T. Schmidt Guest Editor Le Mans University, France It would seem that after some 20 years of distance activities, we are starting to have enough vision on the topic to establish an epistemology for it (i.e. prospective and historical). Over and beyond our main question of how to put to work the results of the sciences involved to date, the advent of the Internet and virtual community activities brings about philosophical questions. One might be: Whom do we wish to become as a human community via the relatively recently established fields of interest listed below?
IBM Research: Knowledge Socialization: Project: White Paper The consequences of designing a humancomputer system in people constantly interactwith systems that isolate circumstances, their own individual body takes on http://www.research.ibm.com/knowsoc/project_paper.html
Extractions: http://www.truthtable.com Scenario: How it often is. Dennis notices in the Tuesday, (Aug. 18, 1998) Wall Street Journal that Toys R Us net tumbled 63% largely due to a lack of new hits. It occurs to him that they may be a prime candidate for knowledge management consulting aimed at increasing innovation. He wonders what the current relationship, if any, is between IBM and Toys R Us. After wandering around www.toysrus.com and www.ibm.com for about 40 minutes, he doesn't find anything really relevant. He tries to recall if he knows anyone who ever worked at Toys R Us but draws a blank. He considers checking a consulting data bank, but isn't sure where to look. It isn't so much a particular competency that he's interested in as in getting a sense of what Toys R Us is really like; how to approach them; what works and what doesn't work with this particular company or with Toy companies in general. Dennis then recalls that he is supposed to be summarizing his last engagement with 3M. He grimaces, realizing that he has only been 30% utilized this month, but begins the onerous task of entering information into various fields. After an hour, he looks back over his work and has the distinct feeling that somehow, he hasn't really captured what was really important about the engagement. He shrugs, wondering whether anyone else will ever really read this anyway.
[GivingSpace-Community] Re: [work] [GivingSpace-Community] The Big Pictu there is already a rich body of knowledge Scholarship, social networks, trust/reputationsystems, and online feeling questions about how real human being react http://collab.givingspace.org/forums/community/2004-02/msg00289.html
Extractions: community Top All Lists Date Advanced ... Thread from [ Tom Munnecke Bookmark Link Original To Cc "Richard P. Gabriel" < >,"Linda Rising" < risingl@xxxxxxx From "Tom Munnecke" < Date Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:31:08 -0800 Message-id 005001c3fc96$b4ae4680$6401a8c0@tomdesk My take on the software/programming issue (having been in the field for 37 years now, and a founding software architect of the two largest hospital information systems in the world) is that we simply haven't built the tools to bootstrap ourselves up into higher levels of abstraction, and have been locked in to an archaic paradigm of what software is. We have been so fixated on notions of compilation, typing, brittle database structures, release management, and the role of the operating system that it has inhibited our "bootstrapping" to higher level tools. Don't have time or energy to argue this...but I'll contend that the problem was not enough lateral thinking to build tools to bootstrap to higher levels of abstraction. The industry has been trying to get out of a hole by digging it deeper for the past 35 years... Some background: we have had a 2 day workshop on patterns taught by Richard Gabriel
[GivingSpace-Community] Re: [work] [GivingSpace-Community] The Big Pictu there is already a rich body of knowledge. Scholarship, social networks, trust/reputationsystems, and online questions about how real human being react to http://collab.givingspace.org/forums/community/2004-02/msg00291.html
Extractions: community Top All Lists Date Advanced ... Thread from [ Gerry Gleason Bookmark Link Original To From Date Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:32:47 -0600 Message-id 20040226193247.GC7769@tux.private.com My take on the software/programming issue (having been in the field for 37 years now, and a founding software architect of the two largest hospital information systems in the world) is that we simply haven't built the tools to bootstrap ourselves up into higher levels of abstraction, and have been locked in to an archaic paradigm of what software is. We have been so fixated on notions of compilation, typing, brittle database structures, release management, and the role of the operating system that it has inhibited our "bootstrapping" to higher level tools. Haven't been around as long as you, but going on 25 years both in software and systems. I came of age when the large vertically integrated systems companies were still strong, or at least one of them was. Back then, I was one of the young upstarts who were building kit computers and getting our hands dirty on PC and other small systems. I remember Bill Joy's "Vendor Motel" pitch for Open Systems long before anyone spoke of Open source (except Stallman and that was Free Source). I am curious what you see to be the right level. Very High Level Languages are being tried all the time, but I don't think that is what you mean here. I see some hope in Internet coded approaches, i.e. XML, Semantic Web, ? Is this part of what you mean? I suspect that the low level stuff will always be there and it has a natural structure and flow. I'm sure it is not lost on you that eventually Open Systems tech has come back to cover most of the same systems areas that the large vertical firms did, it's just that all the interfaces are now industry standards rather than proprietary protocols. Then there is the Microsoft ghetto that seems to be swallowing everything.
Extractions: by Norman Chonacky - The Evergreen State College, and James Myers - The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The goal of the CURE is to bring science resources from PNNL into undergraduate institutions to reduce the distance between science education and science practice. It has been under development for more than two years. An article in the spring edition of this Quarterly described both this project and its research-based antecedent at the PNNL's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). The present article will build on the earlier one by presenting some of the details and results from an exploration of the CURE concept conducted in an intensive, three-day workshop at PNNL last October. The EMSL is a Department of Energy facility in Richland Washington at the site of the Hanford reservation where the DOE produced plutonium for fifty years. EMSL's mission is to accomplish basic research that will facilitate the decontamination and clean-up of this site. The EMSL is richly endowed with supercomputing facilities, advanced instrumentation compatible with its mission, and some of the best scientific research minds in the country. Its research mission is accomplished by a number of programs and labs. These programs focus on developing a molecular-level understanding of physical, chemical, and biological processes that underlie environmental remediation, waste processing and storage, and human health effects. Its approaches to its research are interdisciplinary, including fundamental molecular science, measurement science, its macromolecular structure and dynamics program, and its theory, modeling, and simulation program. Among the EMSL's facilities are its cluster dynamics lab, surface kinetics lab, nanometer surface mapping and spectroscopy lab, a gigahertz NMR, and its molecular science computing facility. It is well beyond the scope of this article to describe EMSL research or resources in any detail. However, to supply context for our analysis, Table 1 briefly illustrates EMSL research.
Corporate - Management Team on the Management Committees of several industry bodies. held various positions suchas systems Analyst, Business He has managed human resource activities in http://www.itcinfotech.com/corporate/body_mgt_team.asp
Extractions: Management Committee Board of Directors Anup Singh is the Executive Director of ITC Limited since November 21, 1997. He joined ITC in 1968 after receiving a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. Mr. Singh was a key participant in the Company's major strategic initiative in the mid-seventies to implement the concept of 'Management by Objectives (MBO)'. Mr. Singh has had a long stint in ITC's cigarette business, including heading it as the Chief Executive. He has also been the Chief Executive of ITC's Specialty Papers business. He is currently in charge of the Cigarettes, Information Technology and Lifestyle Retailing businesses of ITC.
Professional Societies And The Faculty Scholar Mono6x.htm Our bodies are constructed with interrelated systems that respond Change is a partof natural systems. human activities have increased the rate of change with http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/cels/monograph/mono6x24.htm
Extractions: Inherent in the recommendations urged in this report is the overall belief that science, especially the life sciences, must be part of a core of knowledge for all Americans if they are to participate fully in our society. There is much about the natural work that we do not know, yet much that we need to know. We live in a complex world, besieged by complex problems. Our ability to understand, and appropriately respond to the issues of the day, relies on the supposition that we, as a people, are educated regarding these issues. All too often that is not the case. The situation is urgent, and growing worse with each passing day. Participants at the second meeting of the Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (CELS II) devised the following Guiding Principles as a way to correct the current state of affairs, and move us toward the educated state necessary to our survival as a world and as a people.
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Extractions: Want to get rid of ads? Subscribe to deviantART now! U sername: P assword: S earch: Browse Shop Today Forum Software Services Archangel of Blades General Gallery Scrapbook Journal Activity Journal Entry: Mon Jun 7, 2004, 5:40 PM Well, my friends. Obviously it has happened. My access to the internet has been completely shut off. The only reason I'm able to update my joural is due to my friend Phoenix.
VLearn 3D - Online Library: Theory Since there is not a large body of PBL research, the is also imperative that a rangeof support systems be put This is because education is a human enterprise. http://www.vlearn3d.org/library/theory.html
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Distributed Research Teams: Meeting Asynchronously In Virtual Space Persistent Conversation, Journal of ComputerMediated Communication, Vol. 4, No. 4 Message Board. collab-U. CMC Play and desktop conferencing systems, media spaces, chat systems, and virtual http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/adams.html
Extractions: Lia Adams , Lori Toomey, and Elizabeth Churchill FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. As computer networks improve, more social and work interactions are carried out "virtually" by geographically separated group members. In this paper we discuss the design of a tool, PAVE, to support remote work interactions among colleagues in different time zones. PAVE extends a 2D graphical MOO and supports synchronous and asynchronous interactions. PAVE logs and indexes activities in the space. This capture facility enables playback and augmentation of meeting interactions by non-collocated group members. Thus, members can participate asynchronously in meetings they could not attend in real time, not just review them. In recent years, improvements in computer hardware, software and network infrastructures have increased digitally based interactions between geographically separated individuals. Interactions between members of these virtual communities include socializing, game playing, information sharing, sales and advertising, leisure pursuits, and collaborative work. These on-going developments have created new working group possibilities and the emergence of digitally based "virtual communities" [12, 13]. In this paper we consider the design of tools that support such distributed work interactions. More specifically we discuss the design of PAVE, a tool developed at FX Palo Alto Laboratory to support research meetings between non-collocated research team members. Our research focus has been to support both synchronous and asynchronous activities, enabling spatially and temporally separated collaborators to work together on projects. In the next sections we describe the working group activities we aim to support, and we review existing tools for distant collaboration. Then we describe the design of PAVE and illustrate its use with a detailed description of a meeting scenario.
Mediaport.net : Cooperative Content Delivery Network allows wireless fullbody interaction between a human participant and that could beexplored with this kind of system. user control a game wit-h his full body. http://www.mediaport.net/CP/CyberScience/BDD/fich_056.en.html
Extractions: Video QuickTime -> (3.4 Mo) Jpeg Images -> (10 Ko) In this video we discuss the design and implementation of a novel system which allows wireless full-body interaction between a human participant and a graphical world which is inhabitated by autonomous agents. The system is called ALIVE, which stands for Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment. More Information...
Human Resources/ADP/Info For Academic Administrators such as planning, budgeting, governance, human resources, and provides a carefullydesigned system of interactive growing diversity of the student body and the http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/adp/summary/extended.html
Extractions: Development Programs for Academic Administrators Brief Programs (one day to one week) back to index Sponsor: American Council on Education (ACE) Brief Description: Started in 1965 to help individuals gain expertise and perspective to assume significant leadership roles in higher education. Fellows spend an academic year in mentor/intern relationship with an experienced college or university president. This intensive experience combines observation with active participation in all aspects of administration. Candidates are nominated by the chief academic officers of their institutions and are interviewed and selected by ACE. Nominees must have a minimum of five years experience as college-level faculty members or administrators and must have a record of leadership accomplishments. Schedule: The three required ACE Fellows Seminars are conducted in August, January, and June. Candidates must send the completed nomination form and application materials to ACE each year by November 1.
Skewl Sites - Site Index - TEACHER RESOURCES - General fun, and educational adventure through the solar system. how a healthy lifestyle producesa healthy body. human Anatomy Online, An ideal reference for students http://www.skewlsites.com/teacheri.htm
Extractions: 4 Blocks Literacy Framework A framework for teaching guided reading, self-selected reading, writing and working with words. 100th Day of School Website Over a hundred teacher made ideas to help you celebrate the big day across the curriculum. ABC Teach "This is the place for fun ideas and activities for kids, parents, students teachers, and teachers." A Tale to be Told Students have a mystery to solve while reading folktales from other lands. A to Z Teacher Stuff Thematic Units Index The elementary teacher's one-stop source for online thematic units, theme resources, literature activities, lesson plans, and activities. A. Pintura Art Detective "An online game about art history and art composition." A+ Math Games, activities and flashcards to help students improve their math skills.
Honor System Handbook For Faculty on a lowest common denominator of human behavior. Ideally, the Honor System shouldoperate smoothly without intervention by any governing body. http://donut.caltech.edu/about/boc/faculty_handbook.php
Extractions: February 1995 Revision Every community, either through accident or conscious design, adopts certain levels of accepted conduct. With unfortunate frequency, the standards adopted officially and unofficially by academic communities are founded on a "lowest common denominator" of human behavior. It is considered a fact of life at many colleges that intensive proctoring, special examination booklets, and energetic suspicion on the part of the faculty are required to achieve some semblance of honesty in the majority of students. The Caltech community has had the privilege of disregarding these pessimistic traditions. The name given to the official and practiced ethical code of our community is the "Honor System." The Honor System embodies our mutual trust and respect. The Honor System makes Caltech a better and more enjoyable place to work and live because it affords to each person within the Caltech community the trust and freedom that honesty merits. As such, only one guideline is necessary to protect our community: "No one shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community." Because of its nature, it must apply to all of the community, everywhere within the community. It is not restricted to transactions of a purely academic nature between students and faculty, but also binds students in their non-academic relations with any other member of the community.
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Extractions: Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2000, Takamatsu Japan, Nov 2000 Abstract: Repetitive manual materials handling of heavy loads is common in assembly and is a common cause of low back disorders. The manual manipulation of a heavy load may be made more comfortable by constraining the load to move along a guide. The frictionless guide directs the motion of the load to the goal con guration as the human operator provides forces in directions that are comfortable. In this paper we present our rst experimental results in guided manipulation with the purpose of understanding motions and forces that are comfortable for human operators. Link to article
