The article provides an abridged version of a report prepared for the lawsuit, Williams v. State of California. The report first examines the achievement gap for English learners in California. Second, it reviews evidence in seven areas in which these students receive a substantially inequitable education vis-à-vis their Englishspeaking peers, even when those peers are similarly economically di...

This paper presents an analysis of the results of an empirical study conducted to examine the relationship between the estimated and actual sizes of small real-client projects. Estimates of software size are collected at two different points of the software development life cycle – one immediately before rebaselining the project mid-stream and the other immediately after rebaselining. It is fou...

Event marke t ing i s fas t emerg ing as a promotion catalyst vis-à-vis the traditional marke t ing communica t ion too ls . The increasing corporate disillusionment with traditional media due to increased clutter, escalating costs and reduced efficiency has created opportunities for event marketing. Event marketing allows a company to break through the advertising clutter, and target an audien...

Recent findings indicate that the Japanese IT sector increasingly lags the U.S. IT sector in software innovation and that this underlies Japan’s weakening competitive performance vis-à-vis U.S. IT. This article explores alternative explanations for this outcome and analyzes what explains the Japanese software industry’s trajectory. The sources are found in the late understanding of the transfor...

This paper introduces VISAP’14, the IEEE VIS 2014 Arts Program. We discuss the motivations leading to the choice of this year’s theme, Art+Interpretation, and provide an overview of the work presented in the Arts Program papers track and art show. We describe our process of creating an effective interdisciplinary peer review system where artists and researchers decided jointly on installations ...