Choosing Our Futures: Touring Nashville’s university libraries

Still "Choosing Our Futures": How Many Apples in the Seed?

James G. Neal is University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 James G. Neal, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American essayist and poet, noted in his Journals1 that “sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.” Perhaps the authors of the remarkable paper “Choosing Our Future...

Choosing Among Alternative Futures

Non-determinism is a serious impediment to testing and debugging concurrent programs. Such programs do not execute the same way each time they are run, which can hide the presence of errors. Existing techniques use a variety of mechanisms that attempt to increase the probability of uncovering error conditions by altering the execution sequence of a concurrent program, but do not test for specif...

University Libraries

Libraries are a critical component in the functioning of a University. With students, faculty, and staff using the libraries, it has both direct and indirect impacts on the lives of thousands of people. The libraries, just by its core function, have been contributing to intellectual sustainability – a “connecting thread” for the sustenance of life. It is essential for the libraries to become su...

Designer babies: choosing our children's genes.

Drexel University Libraries

We are investigating the nature of knowledge building in virtual communities. In particular, we are exploring the possibility that a small group of students collaborating online on math problems can construct shared group knowledge that exceeds the knowledge of the individual group members. That is, can people working and learning as a community accomplish tasks that none of them would have bee...