was describing her marital problems, 'without having to have it in real life.' It is true that, for many of us, the cinema screen carries a representation of personal problems which we choose to leave undisturbed in ourselves. The screen thus serves a double purpose. What Freud described as a 'screen memory' displays the part of the problem that we choose to remember, and also serves another fu...

Back in the 1960s, it was established that bureaucracy and innovation tend to oppose each other. However not many “innovative” organisations have managed to banish bureaucracy altogether. Topicus, a young software house in the Netherlands, has done this. It has developed an organisational strategy that creates a “spin-off” whenever the organisation becomes too large and is in danger of losing i...

The high heterogeneity in smart house infrastructures as well as in the smart grid poses several challenges when it comes into developing approaches for energy efficiency. Consequently, several monitoring and control approaches are underway, and although they share the common goal of optimizing energy usage, they are fundamentally different at design and operational level. Therefore, we conside...

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keck School of Medicine [email protected] Rossier School of Education Division of Interactive Media, School of Cinema-Television Annenberg School for Communication, Integrated Media Systems Center Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Integrated Media Systems Center University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Institute for Creative Technologies, USC Affiliate...

Permabit is a software company that makes a storage clustering product called Permeon. Permeon grew out of the need to reconcile a vision of the future of globally distributed, secure, private and robust storage with near-term marketplace realities. This paper discusses the evolution of the ideas embodied in Permeon.

Smart Houses are a prominent field of research referring to environments adapted to assist people in their everyday life. Older people and people with disabilities would benefit the most from the use of Smart Houses because they provide the opportunity for them to stay in their home for as long as possible. In this review, the developments achieved in the field of Smart Houses for the last 16 y...

In a multi-disciplinary effort, we investigate the level of speckle that can be tolerated in a laser cinema projector based on a quality of experience experiment with movie clips shown to a test audience in a real-life movie theatre setting. We identify a speckle disturbance threshold by statistically analyzing the observers' responses for different values of the amount of speckle, which was mo...

This paper distils the experience from seven years of knowledge management at sd&m, a German software company with more than 900 employees. For sd&m, knowledge management is a strategic investment with the goal to acquire the right knowledge, to make it accessible to all employees, and to increase their proficiency. Effective knowledge management depends on the right combination of the key elem...

Selecting the appropriate acquisition mode for a required technology, is one of the critical strategic decisions in formulating a technology strategy. Although a number of factorswere found to be influential in the choice of technology acquisitionmode, it still remains a void in the literature how tomake a strategic decision, based on a huge set of those factorswith the help of a systematic app...