Clinton picks NSF chief as science adviser

Editor in Chief changes for Implementation Science

Implementation Science, like all journals, needs to continue to develop. There will always be changes we need to make as next steps in improving the Journal for readers and improving how it runs. However, we now have our first change in Editors in Chief. We are fortunate to have been able to recruit two experienced academics who are also experienced editors--Professor Michel Wensing and Dr Anne...

NSF PI Meeting: The Science of Cloud Computing

DBMSs powering cloud application platforms must serve large numbers of applications with unpredictable load patterns while minimizing the operating cost leveraging the underlying pay-per-use infrastructure. We have designed ElasTraS, an Elastic TranSactional relational database for cloud platforms. ElasTraS is a confluence of two major design philosophies: traditional relational database system...

Position Statement for NSF Science of Design Workshop

Software design requires interplay between human designers and the computer-based tools that support the design process. A sound science of software design must indicate how to build tools that enhance people’s design abilities. Tools routinely automate tasks that are either too time-consuming or infeasible for people to perform manually. Design verification tools are one such example. Unfortun...

Clinton and Crime

The Clinton Regulatory Legacy

a 1993 executive order, similar to two Reagan orders that it replaced, requiring most proposed regulations to undergo economic and risk analyses. In 1996, the Office of Management and Budget issued more detailed guidelines on how to conduct those analyses, consistent with the Clinton order. Those measures would have provided an adequate basis for review of agency-proposed rules if the administr...