Quantum Frontiers: To Boldly Go

Cali Christensen started her summer at Quantum Frontiers (QF) at an intern lunch. Seated around her were 20 other interns from universities all over the country who had been selected from a pool of over 900 applicants to participate in high-tech, space-related research endeavors pushing the boundaries of various fields such as engineering, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, and physics. Cali quickly realized after the first presentation that she may be one of the only non-engineer or scientists in the room. Her internship was different from any others that QF had yet sponsored. Instead of making space-related discoveries in new science, technology, or engineering Cali had been tasked to provide recommendation for the supply chain strategy for QF’s fastest growing division that designed, produced, and operated small satellites for US Department of Defense (DoD) customers. As an MBA student studying supply chain management and with background in data analytics and operations in the agricultural industry, Cali thought she was prepared to tackle the challenge head on, but she had reservations upon hearing the science-speak of the first internship meeting. Will she be able to make a difference in how supply chain decisions are made in the super high-tech world she suddenly found herself in? Where would she start and where will her summer investigation lead her? Still, what could be cooler than spending time learning about the supply chain of spacecraft

ExtremeCom: To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

Research on networks for challenged environments has become a major research area recently. There is however a lack of true understanding among networking researchers about what such environments really are like. In this paper we give an introduction to the ExtremeCom series of workshops that were created to overcome this limitation. We will discuss the motivation behind why the workshop series was created, give some summaries of the two workshops that have been held, and discuss the lessons that we have learned from them

The social brain: allowing humans to boldly go where no other species has been

The biological basis of complex human social interaction and communication has been illuminated through a coming together of various methods and disciplines. Among these are comparative studies of other species, studies of disorders of social cognition and developmental psychology. The use of neuroimaging and computational models has given weight to speculations about the evolution of social behaviour and culture in human societies. We highlight some networks of the social brain relevant to two-person interactions and consider the social signals between interacting partners that activate these networks.Wemake a case for distinguishing between signals that automatically trigger interaction and cooperation and ostensive signals that are used deliberately.We suggest that this ostensive signalling is needed for ‘closing the loop’ in two-person interactions, where the partners each know that they have the intention to communicate. The use of deliberate social signals can serve to increase reputation and trust and facilitates teaching. This is likely to be a critical factor in the steep cultural ascent ofmankind

CASE SUMMARY: DR. SEUSS ENTERPRISES V. COMICMIX LLC: NINTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMS COPYRIGHT FAIR USE AND TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT PRECEDENTS

More than twenty years ago, in Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. Penguin Books USA, Inc., the Ninth Circuit favored Seuss, concluding that The Cat NOT in the Hat!, a self-described “parody” of The Cat in the Hat, did not represent “fair use” of the children’s book under the Copyright Act. In 2019, Seuss entered litigation with ComicMix, the creator of Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go! (“Boldly”), another self-proclaimed parody of the Dr. Seuss classic Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (“Go!”). The case presented a set of facts strikingly similar to those in Penguin. In Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. ComicMix LLC, the district court held that Boldly, despite structural similarities with The Cat in the Hat, constituted a “fair use” of Dr. Seuss’s seminal work under the Copyright Act. The court held, First Amendment protections immunized Boldly from Seuss’s claim of trademark infringement under the Lanham Act. The court granted ComicMix’s motion for summary judgment on both claims. The Ninth Circuit reinforced its prior holdings and Supreme Court precedent regarding ”fair use” under the Copyright and Lanham Acts. The Supreme Court tacitly reaffirmed established precedent regarding both copyright and trademark fair use by denying ComicMix’s petition for certiorari

Curiosity: How to Boldly Go...

Operating a one-ton rover on the surface of Mars requires more than just a joystick and an experiment. With 10 science instruments, 17 cameras, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator and lasers, Curiosity is the largest and most complex rover NASA has sent to Mars. Combined with a 1 way light time of 4 to 20 minutes and a distributed international science and engineering team, it takes a lot of work to operate this mega-rover. The Mars Science Lab's operations team has developed an organization and process that maximizes science return and safety of the spacecraft. These are the voyages of the rover Curiosity, its 2 year mission, to determine the habitability of Gale Crater, to understand the role of water, to study the climate and geology of Mars

To boldly go… the librarian's role in text and data mining

The relatively new exception to copyright law that we enjoy in the UK, permitting text and data mining (TDM) for the purposes of non-commercial research, offers potential to further knowledge and make scientific and medical breakthroughs. Importantly, the new exception states that any contractual clause which purports to restrict this exception is automatically null and void. Librarians who manage electronic resources and datasets can assist researchers greatly. However, in order to do this they need a robust understanding of the law and to be assertive in their ­relationships with publishers when negotiating or interpreting licence agreements. This article examines the ways in which librarians can facilitate the work of researchers who want to use TDM. It also argues that librarians need to encourage researchers to exploit the new copyright exceptions as key partners in the research process

Verbal Hypertension

By expanding the number of English verb tenses, we can express our temporal experiences more precisely. Beyond the old-fashioned Future Perfect ( I will have walked ) lie new tenses just waiting for us to go boldly where no grammarian has gone before