Is This All?

Is this all?

We all attend professional meetings, conferences, assemblies, conference, and/or congresses, and pay money and often travel long distances to do so. We are not forced to go; we willingly attend. We find the necessary resources and leave our jobs to attend these gatherings of our peers and super-peers. We travel, register, attend some of the sessions (we can't get to all of them), possibly prese...

Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is subject to all provisions

When experimenting with or extending protocols, it is often necessary to use some sort of protocol number or constant in order to actually test or experiment with the new function, even when testing in a closed environment. For example, to test a new DHCP option, one needs an option number to identify the new function. This document recommends that when writing IANA Considerations sections, aut...

This is fun! we're all best friends and we're all playing: supporting children's synchronous collaboration

Abstract: As computers become integrated in our everyday lives, it is important that we do not limit computer-based collaboration to distributed settings. As the demand for collaborative applications grows, it is imperative that we investigate how to effectively support co-located collaboration and fully understand the consequences of this style of interaction. This paper presents preliminary r...

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...