The production of Julius Caesar at the New Theatre in Sydney last night reminded me of the movie 300 retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. Caesar had sufficient gravitas for a Royal Shakespeare production. But Brutus and the conspirators spent much of the performance bare chested showing off their impressive abs. They seemed to thinkRead… Read more »
Daniel Le Métayer of INRIA Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, and colleagues, have published Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties, Communications of the ACM, 54(4), 99-106 (April 2010). Here is the abstract: This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with theRead… Read more »
The production of Julius Caesar at the New Theatre Sydney last night reminded me of the movie 300 retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. Julius Caesar had sufficient gravitas for a Royal Shakespeare production. But Brutus and the conspirators spent much of the performance bare chested showing off their impressive abs. They seemed to thinkRead… Read more »
On today’s menu of consumer news you can use … a warning about storage insurance policy exemptions, a tip to protect soldiers from ID theft, and a heads up on ring tones that don’t … you know … ring. Original post
If you’re reading this, you probably already know about Apache‘s Hadoop, a popular data storage and analysis platform. Hadoop can inexpensively store any type of information from any source on commodity hardware and allow for fast, distributed analysis run in parallel on multiple servers in a Hadoop Cluster. It’s powerful, agile, scalable, and, due toRead… Read more »
Earlier this week, the White House convened an open government research and development summit at the National Archives. Columbia statistics professor Victoria Stodden captured some key themes from it at her blog, including smart disclosure of government data and open government at the VA. Stodden also documented the framing questions that federal CTO Aneesh ChopraRead… Read more »
Just a few weeks ago I thought to myself, “I should really start posting to this blog every day.” Almost as soon as I had that thought, the number of things vying for my attention during the week, and the number of hours I need to spend on them, went through the roof. And I’veRead… Read more »
From the March 24 issue of Science Daily: “US citizens who have a high quality of life are more engaged in the direct democracy process, according to Ryan Yonk from Utah State University and Professor Shauna Reilly from Northern Kentucky University in the US. Their study, looking at the effects of quality of life onRead… Read more »
Kumar Kibble is the deputy director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the principal investigative agency for the Department of Homeland Security with more than 400 offices worldwide. Kibble has held several leadership roles at ICE headquarters, and has also completed numerous field assignments across the nation. His government career began as an infantryRead… Read more »
Tiffany Smith from the Department of State recently spoke with Professor Ines Mergel’s Government 2.0 course at Maxwell about Diplopedia and other internal social media tools within the agency. Below, I summarize 5 key lessons from the lecture that may be applicable to internal social media use at other government agencies. 1. Internal social mediaRead… Read more »