What happened to body-to-body sociability?

What ever happened to accountability?

When leaders don't fire underperforming executives, they send a bad message to the whole organization. A case in point is the U.S. Army. "To study the change in the army across the two decades between World War II and Vietnam," Ricks writes, "is to learn how a culture of high standards and accountability can deteriorate." In this essay, adapted from his new book, The Generals: American Military...

What Happened to Software Metrics?

The software community of the 1980s was abuzz with seemingly endless approaches to producing higher-quality software. At the forefront was software metrics and its corresponding techniques, tools, and process-improvement schemes. Cyclomatic complexity, Halstead metrics, source lines of code (SLOC), Fagan inspection, defect counting, number of defects prediction, reliability estimation and model...

What Happened to Home Economics ?

What Happened to the User

This paper discusses the role of the user in Content Based Image Retrieval Systems. The main goal of the paper is to discuss potential reason for why there is a seeming lack of focus on the human in a large part of current CBIR research and literature. Using computer science as a backdrop, we discuss the traditions and standards that have influenced CBIR research. Some potential explanations fo...

What happened to plant caspases?

The extent of conservation in the programmed cell death pathways that are activated in species belonging to different kingdoms is not clear. Caspases are key components of animal apoptosis; caspase activities are detected in both animal and plant cells. Yet, while animals have caspase genes, plants do not have orthologous sequences in their genomes. It is 10 years since the first caspase activi...