In 1628, William Harvey published his epoch-making treatise “On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals”. This 70-page booklet laid the foundation for contemporary cardiology. Since then, life sciences research has not only facilitated the vigorous advances associated with the Industrial Technology Revolution Tidal Wave and the Information Technology Revolution Tidal Waves, but also paved ...

Infrastructure” is defined as “the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions.” Societies invest in infrastructure to meet their current and future needs and thus infrastructure reflects the evolution of technology from simpler to more comple...

Information Technology is one of the most valuable asset for any organisation and any economic system. It is redefining the ways of conducting business and communication and is shaping the interaction between producers and consumers for sale and purchase of goods and services. Unfortunately, however in spite of the importance of IT to the economic system, information revolution has brought both...

Today information and knowledge base technologies have changed many features of our daily lives, but still the information revolution is more about the computers rather than people. We are at the beginning of a new era of computing and information paradigms which can change our lives dramatically (Mattern,2001). While the personal computers, Internet and World Wide Web have already changed many...

Statistical geometry applies probabilistic methods to geometric forms. In the early days of the quantitative revolution statistical geometry appeared to provide a useful framework for geographic research, but its value appeared to decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Geographic information science addresses the fundamental issues underlying the geographic information technologies, and statistical ge...

1 Background Agriculture sector occupies the centre stage in shaping India’s socio-economic status. The economy of the second most populous country in the world is inextricably linked to the pulse of its agricultural success or failure. India has witnessed a significant increase in food grain production after green revolution, oilseeds production after yellow revolution, milk production after w...

Knowledge plays a key role in the information revolution. Major challenges are to select the `̀ right’’ information from numerous sources and transform it into useful knowledge. Tacit knowledge based on common sense, and explicit knowledge based on academic accomplishment are both underutilized. Ways knowledgeenabled organizations acquire, measure, teach, share and apply knowledge are discussed ...

Contemporary work environments are increasingly characterized by distributed collaboration. We argue that such collaboration is enabled through the enactment of a 'collaborative infrastructure' that is composed of shared practices, discourses, and objects. We present a model that describes these elements and their interrelationships. The model further indicates that the development of shared pr...

This group began with an open brainstorming session intended to identify major political, economic and social issues raised by the information revolution that had not, in the view of participants, been sufficiently addressed in the conference plenary sessions. Such issues would be of concern to Europe but not exclusively so. Next the group focused its attention on information revolution questio...