JETC (Japanese Technology Evaluation Center) Panel Report on High Temperature Superconductivity in Japan

The Japanese regard success in R and D in high temperature superconductivity as an important national objective. The results of a detailed evaluation of the current state of Japanese high temperature superconductivity development are provided. The analysis was performed by a panel of technical experts drawn from U.S. industry and academia, and is based on reviews of the relevant literature and visits to Japanese government, academic and industrial laboratories. Detailed appraisals are presented on the following: Basic research; superconducting materials; large scale applications; processing of superconducting materials; superconducting electronics and thin films. In all cases, comparisons are made with the corresponding state-of-the-art in the United States

Les figures de l'utilisateur aux Bell Labs : analyse de la construction des représentations dans la R&D industrielle

In this thesis we examine the genealogy of the concept of user and its contemporary dramaturgy in industrial research. For forty years, the literature in sciences and technology studies, in design and in strategy have been revealing the importance of users in the innovation process. This thesis is the result of a doctoral research that aims at exploring further this issue by studying the institutional, economical and socio-technical reasons that settle the user as an artefact in the research laboratory of Bell Labs. Our theorical frameword combine both semiotic (Charles S. Peirce) and symbolic (Lucien Sfez) aproaches, and the theory of actor-network (Bruno Latour). We focus on the terms of the representational system of the user and its symbolic implications in Bell Laboratories : the diffusion of the concept in the scientific journal of Bell Labs through a statistical analysis, the different types of user-model in Bell Labs history through a speech analysis, and the process of user integration through the socio-technical analysis of an innovation project. For this research, we developed a methodology designed at tracking and analyzing the birth and propagation of concepts in innovation. Finally we defend that Bell Labs, through its user-models, have established an equivalence between human and machine that make the user a symbolic picture half human, half-machine.Cette thèse examine la généalogie du concept d’utilisateur et sa mise en scène contemporaine dans la recherche et développement industriel. De nombreuses recherches du champ des sciences et techniques, du design et de la stratégie ont mis en évidence ces 40 dernières années le rôle clé de l’utilisateur dans le processus d’innovation. Le laboratoire de recherche Bell Labs sert de terrain d’analyse car il permet d’observer sur une période de 88 années les raisons institutionnelles, économiques et socio-techniques qui ont établi l’utilisateur comme un artefact à même de répondre aux enjeux industriels de formalisation des conditions de réceptions et d’usages dans le but de les intégrer aux objets en développement dans le domaine des télécommunications. Ancré au confluent des approches sémiotique (C. S. Peirce), symbolique (L. Sfez), et de la théorie de l’acteur-réseau (B. Latour), nous analysons les différents termes du système représentatif de l’utilisateur et sa symbolique aux Bell Labs : la diffusion du concept dans le journal scientifique de Bell Labs à partir d’une analyse statistique, les différents types de figures de l’utilisateur présents dans ce journal avec une analyse de discours, et le processus de prise en compte de l’utilisateur par l’analyse socio-technique d’un projet d’innovation. Pour ce travail, nous avons développé une méthodologie permettant le suivi et l’analyse de l’émergence et de la diffusion des concepts d’innovation. In fine, nous défendons que les Bell Labs, au travers des représentations de l’utilisateur, ont progressivement établi une équivalence entre l’homme et la machine qui porte l’utilisateur au rang d’image symbolique mi-homme mi-machine

Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?: Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States

Lazonick explores the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to generate stable and equitable economic growth.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1029/thumbnail.jp

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Software Engineering Workshop

The Twenty-third Annual Software Engineering Workshop (SEW) provided 20 presentations designed to further the goals of the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) of the NASA-GSFC. The presentations were selected on their creativity. The sessions which were held on 2-3 of December 1998, centered on the SEL, Experimentation, Inspections, Fault Prediction, Verification and Validation, and Embedded Systems and Safety-Critical Systems

Graduate Catalog, 1996-1999, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Washington University Magazine and Alumni News, Winter 1997

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