Loose Change

Loose Change

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 379–381. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.40 In this issue of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), we have a Special Section on I.S. in Interorganizational Networks and four more Opinion papers. The papers in I.S. in Interorganizational Networks were edited by Diederik W. van Liere, Peter H.M. Vervest, Benn Konsynski and Chris Holland. Than...

Loose Couplings

Loose Ends

Most research projects produce generalizations to be pursued, conjectures to be proved, and special cases to be pondered–often meant to be dealt with at a later date. In this talk, I’ll give examples of such postponements from my own work that I hope will be interesting. Notation is pretty standard, I think. An [n; k]q code is a linear code of length n and dimension k over the …nite …eld Fq of ...

Loose end

old list of publications is just not good enough when looking for a job or applying for grants. Candidates' publications are now subjected to microscopic scrutiny but unfortunately not for their scientific content. What is looked for is with whom you write papers and where these are finally published. Today, God would never get a research grant. One member of the committee would deny it on the ...

Loose ends

T wo is the fundamental number for genetics; all of us are the products of single zygotic events but the zygote is formed from two gametes, and two different sets of chromosomes make up our genomes. When I first learnt genetics, it was about diploids, and meiosis and the generation of haploid gametes was central to its understanding. Incidentally, lacking a classical education, I thought haplo ...