Group 5 ITI Consensus Report: Digital technologies

Ambiguity and Group Consensus

Franklin’s eighteenth century question foreshadows a basic concern for today’s team-dominated business world. First, while individuals are still important, groups are becoming the de-facto unit of work for organizations today. Working cooperatively is becoming a necessity; working collaboratively is becoming paramount to career success. Second, as the work environment changes into a virtual wor...

Digital Mathematics Library Report of the Technical Standards Working Group

5 the Consensus Refined

As the 1930s waned, marihuana was a "killer weed"; the Marihuana Tax Act was federal law; and a bureau-engineered consensus dominated public discussion. In the ensuing two decades or so, the "killer weed" image was supplemented, but not wholly displaced, by the claim that marihuana led to harder drugs. Laws against marihuana use got tougher, and the bureau's consensus persisted with important c...

Digital Technologies and Disease Prevention.

In the last 3 decades or so, digital technologies have penetrated into a vast array of human activities; smartphones, computers, Internet, social media, and the rest have not only reached into many domains of everyday life but also spread globally and very rapidly— at a speed that technologies from previous eras had not done. In this special themed issue of the American Journal of Preventive Me...

Student Monitoring Group Report 5 , academic year 2007 / 2008

Software Testing is used to find the presence of bugs in computer programs [20]. If no bug is found, testing cannot guarantee that the software is bug-free. However, testing can be used to increase our confidence in the software reliability. Unfortunately, testing is expensive, time consuming and tedious. It is estimated that testing requires around 50% of the total cost of software development...