Leading into the Future

This brief speech served primarily as an introduction for Noel Tichy, the keynote speaker at a leadership forum hosted by the Economic Club in Chicago. In addition to this, Pollard takes the opportunity to note that successful business leadership is at its most basic level a soul craft, one that prioritizes people over capital

Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech

The ACM SIGIR Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech was held as part of the 2007 ACM SIGIR Conference in Amsterdam.\ud The workshop program was a mix of elements, including a keynote speech, paper presentations and panel discussions. This brief report describes the organization of this workshop and summarizes the discussions

The Criminal Justice System: Towards the 21st Century

On January 22, 1994, Duke University was honored to have United States Attorney General Janet Reno visit our campus to deliver the Keynote Address for the Fifth Annual Frontiers of Legal Thought Conference. Every year, Duke Law School students organize and conduct this conference, addressing current legal and societal issues of interest to our students. This year\u27s conference addressed The Criminal Justice System: Towards the 21st Century. Attorney General Reno\u27s speech stressed the need for interdisciplinary solutions to the criminal and social problems facing our country today. The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy hopes to foster the sort of dialogue through which such solutions may be found. Below is a brief description of this year\u27s conference by its co-chairs, followed by a Comment by the Attorney General based on the text of her speech. When we began planning this year\u27s Frontiers of Legal Thought Conference, we set for ourselves one very simple goal: to focus the attention of the Duke University community on criminal justice issues. We selected that topic for several reasons. Both of us intend to pursue careers in criminal justice; that personal interest clearly played a role in our decision. But we also felt that any proper discussion of criminal justice would necessarily involve broader social questions of race, class, and gender. We feel strongly about those issues as well and we were confident that a conference focusing on criminal justice would provide an excellent forum for a discussion of those social concerns. ..

Walker, Ethel Louise Pitts

University of Missouri - Columbia, Theatre, 1975 Ph.D. University of Colorado, Speech and Drama, 1965 M.A. Lincoln University (Missouri), Education in Speech and Drama, 1964 B.S. Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1960https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/erfa_bios/1304/thumbnail.jp

Challenges of higher education

THE 2009 Global Higher Education Forum jointly organised by the Higher Education Ministry and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) last week took off with a bang marked by the keynote and opening speech by Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. The speech created tremendous impact on the conference themed Recent Trends, Future Directions, which covers issues of regionalism and harmonisation, the influence of the economic crisis, as well as future relevance and scenarios of higher education. In his speech, Mohamed Khaled elaborated on five important topics challenges in transforming higher education; issues which have impacted it; the nature of authority in tertiary institutions; cooperation versus competition and commercialisation of research

Fair or Foul?: SEC Administrative Proceedings and Prospects for Reform Through Removal Legislation

This Article catalogues the long list of criticisms of the Commission’s administrative proceedings. It also evaluates data describing the outcome of litigated matters and finds that, with the exception of insider trading cases, the Commission has an exceptionally high and statistically indistinguishable record of success in administrative and federal court proceedings alike. The data thus seem not to support the view that the Commission has a generalized home-court advantage in administrative proceedings. Nonetheless, the Commission’s virtually unfettered discretion in forum selection decisions, when it can assign cases to a forum that it controls, raises a plethora of institutional design concerns

Report on the Information Retrieval Festival (IRFest2017)

The Information Retrieval Festival took place in April 2017 in Glasgow. The focus of the workshop was to bring together IR researchers from the various Scottish universities and beyond in order to facilitate more awareness, increased interaction and reflection on the status of the field and its future. The program included an industry session, research talks, demos and posters as well as two keynotes. The first keynote was delivered by Prof. Jaana Kekalenien, who provided a historical, critical reflection of realism in Interactive Information Retrieval Experimentation, while the second keynote was delivered by Prof. Maarten de Rijke, who argued for more Artificial Intelligence usage in IR solutions and deployments. The workshop was followed by a "Tour de Scotland" where delegates were taken from Glasgow to Aberdeen for the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017