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The Complexity of Early-Deciding in Unreliable Synchronous Networks

Who needs a scheduler?

This position paper advocates the need for scheduling. Even if resources at our disposal would become abundant and cheap, not to say unlimited and free (a perspective that is not granted), we would still need to assign the right task to the right device. We give several simple examples of such situations where resource selection and allocation is mandatory. Finally we expose our views on the im...

Who Needs Accountability?

During the twenty-some years since ethnographic field studies in the workplace first began to be taken seriously as having possible relevance for the design of information technology, accountability has been one of the recurring concepts in the literature exploring these areas. Like usability and actability, accountability sounds like an important issue, but proves a difficult feature to define...

Mentoring: who needs it?

It’s paradoxical that the time in your academic career when you most need support and advice — as a new faculty member — is also the first time at which there’s no-one else formally responsible for your welfare. As a graduate student you had an advisor. As a postdoc you were surrounded by your peers and probably overseen by the lab head. But now you’re on your own and, as you encounter the maze...

Who Needs Genomes?

The first detailed mechanistic models for genome based reproduction were developed by John von Neumann in the period 1948-1953 (von Neumann, 1948, 1949; Burks, 1966). While these models were extremely abstract, subsequent elaboration of the structure and function of DNA proved von Neumann’s designs to have been strikingly prescient. However, some significant questions still remain as to the spe...