Guest editorial: The revised international system of units (SI)

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guest editorial: the international council of ophthalmology examinations

the international council of ophthalmology (www.icoph.org) is a swiss registered non-governmental-organization (ngo). we aim to build a world alliance for sight to enhance ophthalmic education and improve patients’ access to high quality eye care to preserve and restore vision for the people of the world. the rules governing ngos are such that the international council of ophthalmology (ico) ha...

GUEST EDITORIAL System architecture design

All throughout history people have had the sense that products become more complex by incorporating new features or new technologies. Up to the middle of the 20th century, most products remained sufficiently simple that single people could design them. Now, all but the simplest products are designed by teams of people with different skills and expertise. Modern products span a range of traditio...

Guest Editorial: Reinventing the Wheels

duty vehicles are amazing artifacts, made by the world's largest industry and fueled by the second-largest. American automakers make a new light vehicle every 2 seconds. Cheaper per kilogram than a fast-food hamburger, those vehicles meet conflicting requirements for performance, emissions, fuel economy, esthetics, and safety with remarkable skill. Yet, a typical light vehicle releases its own ...

Guest Editorial Meeting the challenge

It is a great privilege to be asked to contribute some comments to this special issue of JIS. I have enjoyed reading these papers, and seeing how much our field has moved on since the Journal of Documentation attempted a similar historical survey in 1994 [1], just as the internet was ‘taking off’. My first thoughts were of Jason Farradane, who played such a big part in founding the Institute of...