Money woes fail to weaken Japan's support for science

More woes for Gallo.

152 153 154 157 158 NIH Misconduct Procedures Derailed a More Woes for Gallo Leon Lederman's Quest: Double Science Funding Skeptics and Visionaries Examine Energy Saving * Hope for Eastern Europe? Was Paul Biddle Too Tough on Stanford? Briefings: OSTP Fills Life Sciences Post a U.S. Drilling Takes New Tack a Poland Joins CERN a Ice Damage at SLAC a Cell Bank for Mental Illnesses a What Went Dow...

Williamson's Woes

This is a reply to Timothy Williamson’s paper ‘Tennant’s Troubles’. It defends against Williamson’s objections the anti-realist’s knowability principle based on the author’s ‘local’ restriction strategy involving Cartesian propositions, set out in The Taming of the True. Williamson’s purported Fitchian reductio, involving the unknown number of books on his table, is analyzed in detail and shown...

New litigation limit leads to storage woes.

FORTRESS: A System to Support Fail-Aware Real-Time Applications

Fortress is a support system for designing and implementing fault-tolerant distributed real-time systems that use commercial of the shelf (COTS) components. The main problem we address in Fortress is that services cannot always provide their standard properties due the possibility of missed deadlines, dropped messages and process crashes. Fortress allows clients to detect when a service cannot ...

Science and Money: Problems and Solutions

Scientific research, like carpentry, farming, manufacturing , or banking, is a form of business. The business of science is to produce new discoveries and innovations that advance human knowledge and society. Science, like any other business, involves investments of money, property, human resources, facilities, and capital. The global spending on research and development (R & D) is $1.6 trillio...