John Ford: Baroque English Dramatist

"Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque" by John Butt

Baroque Technology

As new interactive systems evolve, they frequently hit a sweet spot: A few new tricks to learn, and users gets tremendous benefits, simplifying their lives. But beyond that lies the dark phase of baroque technology: increasing complexity with little payoff. We will look at examples for both sweet-spot and baroque interactive technologies, from GPS devices to window systems, find out how to iden...

Let's be baroque!

Received: 5 August 2005 Revised: 24 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 What happens if we abandon thinking about information systems (IS) in terms of fixed prescriptions or scientific models? What happens if we leave behind order, simplicity, sequence, and linearity, and in turn, embrace the sensuous, dramatic, vital, messy, and emotional? What a project for IT researchers! In this brie...

English Medical Humanists: Thomas Linacre and John Caius

The courses of many epidemic diseases reflect the social and economic changes in any nation. They are so often closely influenced by such problems as migrant labour, improving communications, movement of population, and rapid urbanisation. Ghana is no exception; the pattern of disease in that country is closely bound up with the history of its development-as this book well shows. Dr. Scott's ow...

Andrew Ford

This paper describes simulated scenarios for power plant construction in the western United States. The simulations show construction lagging behind the growth in demand, allowing prices to climb to surprisingly high values during the years 2000 and 2001. When construction is completed, new power plants come on line in great number, allowing market prices to fall surprisingly rapidly in the yea...