Functional Programming - Crossing The Chasm?

Crossing the Chasm: How to develop weather and climate models for next generation computers?

Weather and climate models are complex pieces of software which include many individual components, each of which is evolving under the pressure to exploit advances in computing to enhance some combination of a range of possible improvements (higher spatio/temporal resolution, increased fidelity in terms of resolved processes, more quantification of uncertainty etc). However, after many years o...

Crossing the quality chasm in neonatal-perinatal medicine.

The "Quality Chasm" exists in neonatal intensive care. Despite years of clinical research in neonatology, therapies continue to be underused, overused, or misused. A key concept in crossing the quality chasm is system redesign. The unpredictability of human factors and the dynamic complexity of the neonatal ICU are not amenable to rigid reductionist control and redesign. Change is best accompli...

Crossing the quality chasm: lessons from health care quality improvement efforts in England.

The second report from the US Institute of Medicine Crossing the Quality Chasm, highlighted the deficiencies in health care quality in the USA, analyzed the contributory factors, and proposed 13 recommendations for improvements. Clearly, the challenges are enormous. Can anything be learned from the experiences of other countries? This article describes the author's experiences of health care qu...

Crossing the Chasm with Semantic Technologies

After more than a decade of active efforts towards establishing Semantic Web, Linked Data and related standards, the verdict of whether the technology has delivered its promise and has proven itself in the enterprise is still unclear, despite the numerous existing success stories. Every emerging technology and disruptive innovation has to overcome the challenge of “crossing the chasm” between t...

Crossing the Chasm: The Political Value of Facebook and Implications for Modern Congressional Campaigns By