“Come brother Opie!”

Eugene Lindsay Opie.

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences.

Brother Animal

?a seemingly forgotten figure of earliest psychoanalytical days. The picture emerges of a brilliant and talented man, caught in the web of his own disturbed psyche, who finally sought refuge and self-expression through psychoanalysis. He made some of the earliest contributions to the psychoanalytic study of the psychoses, and impressed Freud and his colleagues as a man of ideas and importance. ...

Nobody's Brother

Hiding from Big Brother

The present state of Internet surveillance and censorship has prompted the development of sophisticated anonymization and encryption protocols. The importance of anonymity and data encryption has already set foot in people’s minds. In this paper, we discuss why it is necessary to not only hide the contents and involved parties of communications, but also the communication itself. We present som...

Facing "big Brother":

This paper discusses the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) rage. ERP represents immense investments for companies around the globe and has been promoted as a management panacea. Not surprisingly, many implementations fail to match such expectations. In this study, we: (i) propose a broader perspective to comprehend the substantive, institutional, and political factors involved in the ERP pheno...