Corporate influence and the academic computer science discipline. [4: CMU]

Prosopographical work on the four major centers for computer research in the United States has now been conducted, resulting in big questions about the independence of, so called, computer science

Developing a Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from Local Campus to National Facilities: Challenges and Strategies

A fundamental goal of cyberinfrastructure (CI) is the integration of computing hardware, software, and network technology, along with data, information management, and human resources to advance scholarship and research. Such integration creates opportunities for researchers, educators, and learners to share ideas, expertise, tools, and facilities in new and powerful ways that cannot be realized if each of these components is applied independently. Bridging the gap between the reality of CI today and its potential in the immediate future is critical to building a balanced CI ecosystem that can support future scholarship and research. This report summarizes the observations and recommendations from a workshop in July 2008 sponsored by the EDUCAUSE Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group (CCI) and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). The invitational workshop was hosted at the University Place Conference Center on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis. Over 50 individuals representing a cross-section of faculty, senior campus information technology leaders, national lab directors, and other CI experts attended. The workshop focused on the challenges that must be addressed to build a coherent CI from the local to the national level, and the potential opportunities that would result. Both the organizing committee and the workshop participants hope that some of the ideas, suggestions, and recommendations in this report will take hold and be implemented in the community. The goal is to create a better, more supportive, more usable CI environment in the future to advance both scholarship and research

The Design of Hotel Performance Management System in Padang

As a tourist place, Indonesia is supported by its beautiful natural scenaries and unique cultures. Actually most of Indonesia incomes came from tourism sectors. Padang as the administrative center of West Sumatra is one of tourism places in Indonesia. Unfortunately, all the facilities and touris actractions here need improvement, for example the hotels. Hotels in Padang need attention on the performance Hotels in Padang need attention on the performance This hotel depends on profit targets and classification of IHRA (Indonesian Hotel & Restaurant Association). For the increasement of this hotel, SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threats) analysis and balanced scorecard method were applied. It began with the strategic information gathering based on interviewing the company, then continue processing it into a questionnaire which based on SWOT research. At this point, it is known that Premier Basko Hotel is in quadrant II (strength-threat) SWOT analysis diagram. So, this hotel needs to implement a diversification strategy. It also has 14 types of alternative strategies with strategic goals, 14 factors on Critical Success Factors (CSF), 38 indicators on Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and 38 pieces forms of performance management system. All of these are as the form of guidelines for the performance management system Premier Basko Hotel

Accountants\u27 index. Twenty-fourth supplement, January-December 1975

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_accind/1026/thumbnail.jp

March 30, 1987

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Vol. 52, No. 1 | September 1976

https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/bridgewater_magazine/1206/thumbnail.jp

Information lifecycle management in Structural Engineering BIM, openBIM and Blockchain technology to digitise and re-engineer structural safety information management processes

Over the past decade, the building information modelling (BIM) approach has increasingly been used in both professional practice and research relating to the fields of civil and structural engineering. Indeed, it has been adopted across the globe, with some governments demanding its use in public projects involving bridges, tunnels and railways, as well as for strategic facilities like hospitals and schools. In Europe, most countries comply with Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on public procurements, which allows such clients to demand the use of BIM methodologies. Some countries, meanwhile, have decided to enforce digital delivery; for example, the United Kingdom has required the use of BIM in all government projects since 2016, while the Italian government published a timeline in 2018 mandating the use of BIM methodologies in all construction work by 2025. As a consequence, companies involved in the AEC sector are embracing the BIM approach by employing new tools and workflows, even though they face obstacles in relation to issues like training costs and time or low initial productivity. BIM-based workflows, innovative tools and collaboration platforms can be employed throughout the lifecycle of an asset, and have been the catalyst for innovation in the entire architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. However, the BIM approach does not have its own agenda for research purposes only, but this has one in applied research with the purpose of aiding professional practice. Thus, this thesis will address the use of BIM in structural engineering not for the sake of the research itself, but with the practical intent of summarizing and presenting the current experience of the use of BIM in structural engineering and then contributing to expanding knowledge about the possible uses of BIM in this regard. This thesis proposes innovative processes for the lifecycle information management of information that refers to the discipline of structural engineering. The proposed processes are based on the BIM approach, an information management framework that allows to standardise information flows using processes that implement tools such as BIM-authoring software, BIM tools and collaboration platforms. In detail, the BIM-based processes here proposed are in the number of three and refer, respectively, to the authorization phase, the testing and closeout phase, and the operation and maintenance phase of the lifecycle of a facility. A further novelty of this work is investigating the use of the open format industry foundation classes (IFC) in the processes that refer to the authorization phase and the operation and maintenance phase, and the use of blockchain technology in the testing and closeout phase. The first aim of this thesis, therefore, is to start bridging that gap by 1) providing the first state-of-the-art on the use of BIM in structural engineering. Additionally, this thesis is original in that it addresses the production, management, and storage of information that pertains to structural engineering. Accordingly, this work aims at: 2) Proposing an open BIM-based process for the application for seismic authorization, in Italian 'autorizzazione sismica' (authorization phase). 3) Proposing a proof-of-concept for the integration of blockchain technology and smart contract into information flows among common data environments (CDEs) in the construction process of structural systems (testing and closeout phase). 4) Proposing an open BIM-based process for the operation and maintenance phase of structures

Accountants\u27 index. Twenty-second supplement, January-December 1973

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_accind/1024/thumbnail.jp

The Guardian, September 06, 2006

Twenty-eight page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian/2589/thumbnail.jp