Will They Always Be Here?

“ The Poor Will Always Be with You ”

(Matthew 26:11) Is poverty intractable? Have all advanced, industrial countries failed to reduce poverty? We can learn more about the presumed intractability of poverty by comparing advanced industrial countries to learn whether any of them have experienced recent, substantial declines in child poverty. This is just the tack taken by Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak in their analysis of changes in ...

District general managers: who will they be?

Twelve of the 14 English regions have now appointed a general manager: a nurse, two treasurers, a medical administrator, and eight administrators. The next step in the process is to appoint district general managers. Many districts jumped the gunthey probably did not realise that there was going to be a formal start-and have interviewed and designated (some privately) their general manager. The...

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Will they come and will they stay?

Future networks-on-chip; will they be synchronous or asynchronous?

The purpose of the talk is to share some observations and to moderate a discussion of certain issues related to the implementation of networks-onchip (NoC). Future systems-on-chip (SoC) will contain a multitude of different IP-blocks and in order to support the communication between these blocks in a structured way, packet-switched networks-on-chip are expected to replace today’s bus-based solu...