Herding CATS

Herding Cats

Herding Cats to Infinity

This paper outlines and contextualises some current findings of an on-going investigation begun in 2009 at the Visual Effects Research Lab (VERL). The three-year project links the worlds of film, art, technology and computer science. In sharing methodologies and promoting cross-, transand inter-disciplinary understanding the project is beginning to challenge established notions of visual though...

Herding Cats: Managing a Mobile UNIX Platform

Laptops running UNIX operating systems are gaining market share. This leads to more sysadmins being asked to support these systems. This paper describes the major technical decisions reached to facilitate the pilot roll out of a mobile Mac OS X platform. We explain which choices we made and why. We also list the main problems we encountered and how they were tackled. We show why in the environm...

Herding Cats? Management and University Performance*

Using a tried and tested measure of management practices that has been shown to predict firm performance, we survey nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and that departments in older, researchintensive universities score higher than departments in newer, more teaching-oriented universities. We also find that manag...

Herding Cats: The Sociology of Data Integration

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