Civil Procedure’s Five Big Ideas

Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five "big" ideas

The evolution of big ideas

T he history of science is littered with big ideas—from the Earth being a globe, to the theory of gravity, to phlogiston theory, to the theory of evolution and cold fusion—some of which eventually ended up on the great heap of disproven theories as new knowledge proved them to be wrong or unfeasible. In biomedical research, grand visions include the Human Genome Project (HGP) or the Human Brain...

Civil partnerships five years on.

The Civil Partnership Act 2004, which came into force in December 2005 allowing same-sex couples in the UK to register their relationship for the first time, celebrated its fifth anniversary in December 2010. This article examines civil partnership in England and Wales, five years on from its introduction. The characteristics of those forming civil partnerships between 2005 and 2010 including a...

Beyond the Big Five

This article aims at a discussion of three controversial issues about the Big Five (1) Is the ®ve-factor model comprehensive? (2) How should the amount of variance accounted for by the Big Five be measured? (3) Are the Big Five orthogonal and do they represent the highest hierarchical level of personality description? Subjects were 115 men and women in the age range from 20 to 63 years. They an...

Great and Big Ideas in Computer Structures

I went to Carnegie Tech after spending my first 6 professional years designing computers at Digital Equipment Corporation to be part of the startup faculty of the computer science department. Allen Newell, Alan Perlis, and Rod Williams, who headed the Electrical Engineering Department, made this career changing choice easy for me. Like everyone who knew Allen, I feel deeply honored to have know...