Recognizing, Catalyzing, and Embracing Change

Embracing change.

Diversity in chemistry: catalyzing change.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans in the scientific workforce is becoming a national crisis. In the past decade, reports by the American Association for the Advancement of Science1, the US National Science Board2 and the US National Science Foundation3 have pointed out that our country’s continued success in scienc...

Embracing Change with Extreme Programming

0018-9162/99/$10.00 © 1999 IEEE 70 Computer I n the beginning was the waterfall (Figure 1a). We would get the users to tell us once and for all exactly what they wanted. We would design the system that would deliver those features. We would code it. We would test to make sure the features were delivered. All would be well. All was not well. The users didn’t tell us once and for all exactly what...

Embracing Change: Financial Informatics and Risk Analytics

We present an enterprise design pattern for managing metadata in support of financial analytics packages. The complexity of financial modeling typically requires deployment of multiple financial analytics packages, drawing data from multiple source systems. Business domain experts are typically needed to understand the data requirements of these packages. Financial product innovation and resear...

Embracing chaos and complexity: a quantum change for public health.

Public health research and practice have been guided by a cognitive, rational paradigm where inputs produce linear, predictable changes in outputs. However, the conceptual and statistical assumptions underlying this paradigm may be flawed. In particular, this perspective does not adequately account for nonlinear and quantum influences on human behavior. We propose that health behavior change is...