Optimizing the Unoptimizable: A Whirlwind Tour of JavaScript

A whirlwind tour through the history and state-of-the-art of JavaScript execution and optimization, with a focus on the V8 engine used by Chrome and Node.js, and how a 10-day prototype became one of the most important programming languages in the world

The Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund in the Great Lakes Region: Assessment and Recommendations

The GLEFC was asked by the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Region 5 brownfields staff to provide an assessment of the viability and implementation of the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (BCRLF) by the 12 pilot award recipients in the Region. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the administrative performance of the BCRLF at the 6-state regional level. It should be stressed that this is not an evaluation of the performance of individual pilots. This assessment was intended to be a “snapshot” of the pilot community’s implementation of the BCRLF, and the site visits were all made in conjunction with EPA’s pilot management staff. The GLEFC team of Kirstin Toth, Project Manager and Adina Wolf, Research Associate, led the discussions of how best to spur activity in the loan product, and what conclusions could be made about the program to increase its effectiveness. Donald T. Iannone, the former GLEFC Executive Director, served as a consulting advisor to the project

The NASA Glenn Research Center: an Economic Impact Study

This study describes the impact of GRC on the State of Ohio and on Northeast Ohio, where GRC is located. Northeast Ohio includes the eight counties in the Akron and Cleveland metropolitan areas.1 This report is an expansion and update of an earlier study, published in February 1996.2 As before, this study employs two methods to determine GRC’s influence on the state and local economies. The first method uses quantitative models to estimate the effect of GRC on the studied economies. These models measure economic impact in terms of growth in total output, household earnings, and number of new jobs created. The second method uses GRC’s internal documents and interviews with GRC’s staff, as well as interviews with leaders in industry, academia, and the non-profit sector who are affiliated with GRC or are knowledgeable about its activities. This is the primary method in the analysis of GRC’s technology transfer activities and its educational contributions