Panel Discussion I. Media Economy and Democracy. Introduction

Panel discussion section I

Kochukhov: The Doppler imaging problem is intrinsically ill-conditioned. It is not correct to characterize this problem by the number of unknowns. We are using regularization, and regularization effectively introduces a set of additional equations which smoothes the map in our case; in the case of the maximum entropy method, it selects an image with maximum entropy. So actually if I count equat...

Introduction to Panel I

POLITICAL ECONOMY † Health and Democracy

In spite of the inexorable march of democracy around the globe, just how democratic institutions affect human well-being is open to debate. The evidence that democracy promotes prosperity is neither strong nor robust. Moreover, which aspects of policy making and human well-being are promoted by democracies is still a subject of debate. Even if correlations between democracy and outcome measures...

Considering the Common Criteria: Introduction to Panel Discussion

This paper provides a brief introduction to the draft security standard known us the Common Criteria and suggests possible related topics for penel discussion. Suggestions for discussion In order for a system to be judged secure, there must, be a coherent and comprehensive set of criteria against which it can be measured. In recent years, a number of different security standards have been devel...

Panel Discussion

MODERATOR SPRAGUE: Those of you who were here this morning are familiar with the forms and faces of our panelists this afternoon. I am moderator or chairman, and Mr. Dewey Barrett recently said that the position of a chairman is that of a minor official at the bull fight who opened and closed the gates to let the bull in and out. Well, at least like the Portuguese bull fighter we will let the b...