1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455889503321

Titolo

Academic careers for experimental computer scientists and engineers [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1994

ISBN

1-280-21124-5

9786610211241

0-309-58568-6

0-585-08563-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Disciplina

004.2373

Soggetti

Computer science - Vocational guidance

Computer engineering - Vocational guidance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE NATURE OF EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING""; ""ECSE AND THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT""; ""PROVIDING A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT FOR ECSE FACULTY""; ""1 What Is Experimental Computer Science and Engineering? ""; ""ORGANIZATION AND SCOPE OF THIS REPORT""; ""COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING""; ""DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF ECSE""; ""ECSE Is a Synthetic Discipline""; ""ECSE Focuses Primarily on Artifacts""; ""Proof of Performance""

""Proof of Concept""""Proof of Existence""; ""Summary""; ""The Artifacts of ECSE Are Extraordinarily Complex""; ""ECSE Is Sensitive to Technological Developments""; ""Computing Artifacts Are Universal""; ""ECSE Is Not Strongly Coupled to Theoretical Computer Science""; ""A Succinct Definition of Experimental Computer Science and



Engineering""; ""MORE ON ARTIFACTS""; ""COMPARISONS WITH OTHER FIELDS""; ""WHY UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PERFORM ECSE RESEARCH""; ""2 An Academic Career in ECSE ""; ""GOALS OF RESEARCH IN ECSE""; ""RESOURCES FOR ECSE RESEARCH""; ""Equipment and Software""

""Staying on the Cutting Edge in Equipment""""Dedicated Computing Systems""; ""Specialized Systems""; ""Space""; ""Maintaining the Research Environment""; ""Graduate Students""; ""Staff Support""; ""Access to Collaborators and Other Experimental Systems""; ""Funding""; ""Time""; ""Building Complex Artifacts""; ""Building a Research Laboratory""; ""Building Industrial Relationships""; ""Graduating Doctoral Students""; ""Recovering from Wrong Turns and Dead Ends, and from Being Scooped""; ""Building a Reputation""; ""THE RELATIONSHIP OF RESEARCH SCALE TO INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS""; ""SUMMARY""

""3 Educational Dimensions of Academic ECSE """"KEEPING COURSES CURRENT""; ""EVALUATING STUDENT WORK""; ""STUDENT-FACULTY RATIOS""; ""SUPERVISING NON-PH.D. GRADUATE STUDENTS""; ""4 Evaluating Research in ECSE ""; ""PUBLICATION AND OTHER FORMS OF DISSEMINATION""; ""Publications""; ""Journals""; ""Conferences""; ""Artifacts as a Medium for Dissemination""; ""THEORETICIANS' AND EXPERIMENTALISTS' VIEWS ON EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH""; ""THE EFFECT OF EVALUATION ON PROBLEM CHOICES AND RESEARCH AREA""; ""A NOTE ON OTHER DISCIPLINES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""5 A Positive Environment for Academic ECSE ""

""MENTORING AND ADVOCACY""""Mentoring""; ""Advocacy""; ""DESIDERATA FOR THE TENURE AND PROMOTION PROCESS""; ""Publications""; ""Artifacts""; ""Review Letters""; ""Funding History""; ""Other considerations in the T&P Process""; ""Ph.D. Students""; ""Consulting""; ""Workshops""; ""Teaching""; ""Service""; ""INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENT""; ""6 Special Needs and Concerns of Non-Doctorate-Granting and Less Recognized Institutions ""; ""MISSION""; ""SIZE""; ""RESOURCES""; ""MODELS FOR CONDUCTING ECSE RESEARCH AT NPHD SCHOOLS""; ""Proof-of-Performance Research""

""Collaborative Research""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972967703321

Autore

Clark Bonnie J

Titolo

On the edge of purgatory : an archaeology of place in Hispanic Colorado / / Bonnie J. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, : Society for Historical Archaeology, c2011

ISBN

9786613593528

9781280498299

1280498293

9780803262751

0803262752

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Historical archaeology of the American West

Disciplina

305.868/0730788

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Colorado - Antiquities

Hispanic Americans - Colorado - History

Hispanic Americans - Colorado - Social life and customs

Archaeology and history - Colorado

Ethnoarchaeology - Colorado

Colorado Antiquities

Colorado History, Local

Colorado Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding Purgatory; 1. Hispanic Colorado; 2. Inhabiting the Lower Purgatory; 3. Making a Living and a Life; 4. Plazas and Community; 5. Lessons from the Landscape; Conclusion: The Archaeology of Places; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800's, the region was U.S. territory, but the majority of settlers remained Hispanic families. They had a complex history of interaction with indigenous populations in the area and adopted many of the indigenous methods of survival in



this difficult environment. Today their descendants compose a vocal part of the Hispanic population of Colorado. Bonnie J. Clark investigates the unwritten history of this unique Hispanic population. Combining archaeological research, contemporary ethno