Why Engage in the Discipline of Theology

Lecture presented at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, Fall 1995

Comment on Leptophobic Bosons and νN\nu N Neutral Current Scattering Data

The relevance of existing $\nu N$ deep inelastic scattering data to models containing a leptophobic neutral vector boson is discussed. It is shown that this neutral current data is in good agreement with the Standard Model and disfavors such a leptophobic boson.Comment: LaTeX, 3 pages, 1 embedded PS figure, available at http://cordelia.fnal.gov/~ksmcf/publications/moriond_comment.ps.gz . Presented at the XXXIieme Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theorie

The benefits of bottom-up design

An inconsistency is examined in generic top-down design methods and standards employed in the implementation of reliable software. Many design approaches adopt top-down ordering when defining the structure, interfaces, and processing of a system. However, strict adherence to a top-down sequencing does not permit accurate description of a system's error handling functions. The design of the system response to errors is becoming critical as the reliability requirements of systems increase. How top-down methods such as object oriented design and structured design do not adequately address the issues of error handling is described, and it is suggested using a bottom-up substep within these methods to eliminate the problem