Signs of Optimism Beyond 2020

Diffuse Baryonic Matter beyond 2020

The hot, diffuse gas that fills the largest overdense structures in the Universe — clusters of galaxies and a web of giant filaments connecting them — provides us with tools to address a wide array of fundamental astrophysical and cosmological questions via observations in the X-ray band. Clusters are sensitive cosmological probes. To utilize their full potential for precision cosmology in the ...

The Future of Environmental Public Health Tracking: 2020 and Beyond.

Constraints in the IoT: The World in 2020 and Beyond

The Internet of Things (IoT), often referred as the future Internet; is a collection of interconnected devices integrated into the world-wide network that covers almost everything and could be available anywhere. IoT is an emerging technology and aims to play an important role in saving money, conserving energy, eliminating gap and better monitoring for intensive management on a routine basis. ...

Ultraviolet Astronomy Beyond 2020 Marc Postman and Matt Mountain

UV astronomy has a promising long-term future if astronomers think boldly about where the next frontiers lie in this rich field. The most exciting of these frontiers involve resolving structures near or below angular scales of 20 mas and/or obtaining modest resolution spectroscopy of nanoJansky sources across the 0.11− 2.5 μm wavelength range (the optical and NIR bands provide rest-UV coverage ...

The diffusion of novel signs beyond the dyad.

We present a study aimed at investigating how novel signs emerge and spread through a community of interacting individuals. Ten triads of participants played a game in which players created novel signs in order to communicate with each other while constantly rotating between the role of interlocutor and that of observer. The main result of the study was that, for a majority of the triads, commu...