Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Funding a Revolution
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309062780
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university researchers to this revolution are manifest; less widely recognized is the major role the federal government played in launching the computing revolution and sustaining its momentum. Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. It reviews the economic rationale for government support of research, characterizes federal support for computing research, and summarizes key historical advances in which government-sponsored research played an important role. Funding a Revolution contains a series of case studies in relational databases, the Internet, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality that demonstrate the complex interactions among government, universities, and industry that have driven the field. It offers a series of lessons that identify factors contributing to the success of the nation's computing enterprise and the government's role within it.
Interstate Commerce Act
Author: Karl Knox GartnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Akers Family of Franklin County, Virginia
Author: Alonzo Edwin AkersA History of the American and Puritanical Family of Sutliff Or Sutliffe
Author: Samuel Milton SutliffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Fort Peck Project
Author: Toni Rae LinenbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Peck Dam (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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The SAR Magazine
Author: Sons of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Time Matters
Author: Andrew AbbottPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226001029
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in Time Matters, a diverse series of essays that constitutes the most extensive analysis of temporality in social science today. Ranging from abstract theoretical reflection to pointed methodological critique, Abbott demonstrates the inevitably theoretical character of any methodology. Time Matters focuses particularly on questions of time, events, and causality. Abbott grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of actual social scientific analyses. Throughout, he demonstrates the crucial assumptions we make about causes and events, about actors and interaction and about time and meaning every time we employ methods of social analysis, whether in academic disciplines, market research, public opinion polling, or even evaluation research. Turning current assumptions on their heads, Abbott not only outlines the theoretical orthodoxies of empirical social science, he sketches new alternatives, laying down foundations for a new body of social theory.
Pennsylvania Genealogies
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Author: Ezra C. Knapp