Peter Gunn Remembers his Life as a Geophysicist

Peter Schäfer : Mirror of His Beauty

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Claudio Ciborra: his life as a formative context

Received: 28 September 2005 Revised: 30 September 2005 Accepted: 30 September 2005 I am pleased to be invited to join in this tribute to Claudio Ciborra, someone whose influence on me was early and continuous, while constantly developing new directions and insights. Our last meeting in person was at a conference I co-chaired for an IFIP Working Group in Ireland in 2004. I had insisted Claudio t...

PETER SINGER Under Fire The Dangerous Ethicist Faces His Critics

How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds

Cognitive science normally takes the individual agent as its unit of analysis. In many human endeavors, however, the outcomes of interest are not determined entirely by the information processing properties of individuals. Nor can they be inferred from the properties of the individual agents, alone, no matter how detailed the knowledge of the properties of those individuals may be. In commercia...

Peter and Anti-peter Principle as the Discrete Logistic Equation

In this work Peter principle (in the hierarchical structure any competent member tends to rise to his level of incompetence) is consistently interpreted as the discrete form of the well-known logistic (Verhulst or Maltusian) equation of the population dynamics. According to such interpretation anti-Peter principle (in the hierarchical structure any incompetent member tends to rise to his level ...