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Sampson: Economic and Social Implications

For several years there has been tension between contrasting visions of the future of enterprise computing: the so-called integrated suite versus best-of-breed strategies, championed respectively by Oracle and IBM. Commonly, this conflict has been seen as a matter purely of technical efficiency and relative cost; but it is much more. Whether one approach or the other is destined to prevail is a...

Jack Sampson Research Statement

Research Overview For several decades, improvements to CMOS process technologies fueled rapid growth in processor performance and throughput. Recently, however, power limitations have radically altered performance scaling for single-threaded applications, and the number of cores per processor has lagged behind the historical rate of transistor increase. This transition leaves architects with fa...

Dick Byrne

Dick Byrne is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He studies the evolution of cognition, and has investigated a wide range of animal capacities — vocal and gestural communication, deception, social comprehension, mental mapping, causal knowledge and the acquisition of novel manual skills. After training in cognitive psychology, he turned to primate f...

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

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