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Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 JOSEPH KESTIN 124 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 7 JOSEPH KESTIN 125 JOSEPH KESTIN 1913–1993 BY DANIEL C. DRUCKER JOSEPH KESTIN, professor of engineering at Brown University, died on March 16, 1993, of acute leukemia. Founder and first director of the university's Center for Energy Studies, he continued his high level of activity and productivity in research until the very end. Throughout his long and distinguished academic career, in which both experimental and theoretical research played so important a role, Professor Kestin was a superb teacher of undergraduate students. They, along with the host of other readers of his texts on thermodynamics, appreciated greatly his fundamental and challenging approach to the understanding as well as the use of thermodynamic principles. Born on September 18, 1913, in Warsaw, Poland, Professor Kestin received his Dipl. Ing. degree from the Technical University there in 1937 and then began graduate study at Kings College, London. Soon after his return to Warsaw for a visit in late summer 1939, he was sent to a Russian prisoner-of-war camp and was not released to serve with the Allies until 1941. He was then able to resume his graduate studies at Imperial College, London, and completed his doctoral thesis on ''High Speed Flow of Gases Through Channels'' under the direction of Sir Owen Saunders. Following World War II the Polish University College, as a transient arrangement to permit the many expatriate Poles to complete their education, became a unit of the University of Copyright National Academy of Sciences. -
Bernard M. Oliver Oral History Interview
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt658038wn Online items available Bernard M. Oliver Oral History Interview Daniel Hartwig Stanford University. Libraries.Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford, California November 2010 Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. Note This encoded finding aid is compliant with Stanford EAD Best Practice Guidelines, Version 1.0. Bernard M. Oliver Oral History SCM0111 1 Interview Overview Call Number: SCM0111 Creator: Oliver, Bernard M., 1916- Title: Bernard M. Oliver oral history interview Dates: 1985-1986 Physical Description: 0.02 Linear feet (1 folder) Summary: Transcript of an interview conducted by Arthur L. Norberg covering Oliver's early life, his education, and work experiences at Bell Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard. Subjects include television research, radar, information theory, organizational climate and objectives at both companies, Hewlett-Packard's associations with Stanford University, and Oliver's association with William Hewlett and David Packard. Language(s): The materials are in English. Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Green Library 557 Escondido Mall Stanford, CA 94305-6064 Email: [email protected] Phone: (650) 725-1022 URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Information about Access Reproduction is prohibited. Ownership & Copyright All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. -
The Death of the Firm
Article The Death of the Firm June Carbone† & Nancy Levit†† INTRODUCTION A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends. An established body of law specifies the rights and obligations of the people (including shareholders, officers, and employees) who are associated with a corporation in one way or another. When rights, whether constitutional or statutory, are ex- tended to corporations, the purpose is to protect the rights of these people.1 In the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lob- by—and more generally in corporate and employment law—the firm as entity is disappearing as a unit of legal analysis. We use the term “firm” in this Article in the sense that Ronald Coase did to describe a form of business organization that or- ders the production of goods and services through use of a sys- tem internal to the enterprise rather than through the use of independent contractors.2 The idea of an “entity” in this sense † Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology, University of Minneso- ta Law School. †† Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, University of Mis- souri – Kansas City School of Law. We thank William K. Black, Margaret F. Brinig, Naomi Cahn, Paul Callister, Mary Ann Case, Lynne Dallas, Robert Downs, Max Eichner, Martha Fineman, Barb Glesner Fines, Claire Hill, Brett McDonnell, Amy Monahan, Charles O’Kelley, Hari Osofsky, Irma Russell, Dan Schwarcz, Lynn Stout, and Erik P.M. Vermeulen for their helpful comments on drafts of this Article and Tracy Shoberg and Shiveta Vaid for their research support. -
GSA TODAY • 1999 Medals and Awards, P
Vol. 10, No. 3 March 2000 INSIDE • New Member Service Center, p. 6 • Geologist on a Soapbox, p. 10 GSA TODAY • 1999 Medals and Awards, p. 15 A Publication of the Geological Society of America An Ocean of Ice—Advances in the Estimation of Past Sea Ice in the Southern Ocean Leanne K. Armand, Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-77, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, Australia, Leanne. [email protected] ABSTRACT The estimation of past sea-ice cover has been improved recently by advances in diatom ecology, biogeography, and taxonomy and in the satellite imagery of sea ice. Diatoms live in and around sea ice, are sensitive to sea ice, and are widely distributed as microfossils in Southern Ocean sediments; thus, they provide the best tool available for re- constructing sea-ice cover and oceano- graphic features in Antarctic regions. New approaches use diatoms to recon- struct sea ice through the late Quater- Divergent winter pack ice illustrating areas of open water between floes that have started to refreeze with a thin cover of nilas. Recent ecological studies have shown that sea-ice diatom communities are nary from core sites in the Southern differentiated by variations in the type of sea ice formed and the changes that occur over the seasonal Ocean. The sea-ice records provide evi- cycle of sea-ice advance and decay (Gleitz et al., 1998). Photo by Tony Worby, Antarctic Cooperative dence of increased sea ice at the Last Research Centre, University of Tasmania. Glacial Maximum (21,000 yr ago) and changing sea-ice cover through the past 190 k.y. -
Evolution of Activities in a Smart Grid Summer Camp for High School STEM Students (Evaluation)
Paper ID #25752 Evolution of Activities in a Smart Grid Summer Camp for High School STEM Students (Evaluation) Mr. Daniel Jonathon Douglas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Daniel Douglas is a graduate student of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute. He is interested in research opportunities involving machine learning, power systems, and software applications. His long term goal is a career in power and energy systems engineering. Mr. Ian Scott Steenstra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dr. Joe H. Chow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Joe Chow obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He worked in the General Electric power system business before joining Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute in 1987, where he is Institute Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering. He is currently the campus director of the NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center on Ultra- Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT). His research interests include modeling and control of power systems and synchrophasor data analysis. He is a life fellow of IEEE and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is a recipient of the Donald Eckman award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Control Systems Technology Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society. Dr. Chien-fei Chen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chien-fei Chen received the B.S. degree in English Language and Literature from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1992, and the M.S. in Communication, and Ph.D. -
ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries
winner receives $150, a certificate, a one-year sub cluding tax and land records, population and elec scription to the museum’s publication, The Old tion statistics, and period diaries to shape a social Sturbridge Visitor, and a five-year membership to portrait of not one community, but of an entire ge the Old Sturbridge Village Research Library Soci ographic region. ety. Roth’s book uses a great variety of sources in PEOPLE People in the news Committee of NAAL which developed the proce dure for the NAAL reimbursement program that Francesca Allegri, formerly head of Informa has been successful in promoting the use of library tion Management Education Services at the Uni resources throughout the state. Her committee also versity of North Carolina Health Sciences Library, developed the charge to seek funding to improve Chapel Hill, relocated to Champaign, Illinois, in the document delivery network. As a result, NAAL March. She will be teaching, consulting and writ will be funded in 1989 to install telefacsimile ing in the areas of user education and information equipment in all general and cooperative libraries. management. She continues as editor of the column, “Information Management Education,” Profiles in Medical Reference Services Quarterly. Annie G. King, library director at Tuskegee In Judith Adams, head of the Humanities Depart stitute, Alabama, has been awarded the Distin ment at the Auburn University Libraries, has been guished Service Award presented by the Alabama appointed director of the Lockwood Library at the Library Association to an individual who has made State University of New a significant contribution toward the development York at Buffalo. -
Together We Can Do Great Things Gyda'n Gilydd, Gallwn Wneud
Together we can do great things Gyda’n gilydd, gallwn wneud pethau mawr Headteacher/Prifathro Mrs S Parry Headteachers Blog Number 136 Blog Prifathro Rhif 5th March 2021 Dear Parents, Guardians and Students/Annwyl Rieni,Gwarchodwyr a Myfyrwyr LHS - the return This week, we received the wonderful news that infection rates in Wales have reduced to a rate that Welsh Government consider it safe for us to formally plan for the staggered return of all students from 15th March. On Monday 8th March I will send our comprehensive plans to all stakeholders to allow everyone to get ready to return. We are reviewing all risk assessments and health and safety processes around the school. As part of this, we will be sending out guidance and resources for the optional use of lateral flow testing for staff and students. Rest assured that we will temper our enthusiasm to get back with our commitment to health and safety. There will be significant additional measures in place. We are preparing all details in preparation to update you on Monday. Patagonia bound on our 100 Heroes Charity and Fitness Event! In the meantime, please do follow the link below to view a very special video message that has been made by the staff of City Hospice to talk about the impact that our 100 Heroes campaign can have on the work that they do. We are really touched to hear from the amazing staff who work at City Hospice. We are making the journey of 12,000km to Patagonia because City Hospice has provided love and care for many members of our community and is close to our heart. -
FROM the Point of View of This Journal, the Most Important Achievement Of
hr. .I. Hear Man Transfer. Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 1437-1438, 1984 Pergamon Press Ltd. Printed m Great Bntain FROM the point of view of this journal, the most pressure on natural-convection phenomena; and, important achievement of Owen Saunders is that he because the results were appropriately expressed in and Ernst Eckert founded it. No doubt part of the terms of the dimensionless groups which we would now initiative came from Robert Maxwell, who was then call the Nusselt and Rayleigh number, they provided a laying the foundation of his scientific publishing valuable confirmation of the laws of similarity. empire; and the persistent endeavours of Aleksei I well remember coming across this paper while I was Vasilievich Luikov were an essential ingredient. a research student, and being inspired by it to believe However, it was Saunders and Eckert who chose the that high-pressure experiments on models of cor- editors and who set the journal moving in the direction respondingly small geometric scale would provide a that it has since followed. cheap and effective means of predicting the perform- Owen Saunders went on to do many other things of ance of heat-exchange equipment. As it turned out, the public interest, some of which are referred to in Hugh practical obstacles of this line of advance proved to be Ford’s article in this issue of rJHMT(pp. 1435-1436); major ones, and nowadays computer simulations are and more can be learned from the “Second Owen usually preferred to those provided by physical models. Saunders Lecture : Internation~ Flame Research” by Nevertheless, the notion that one may predict the Jack Chesters, published in the June 1975 issue of the behaviour of one piece of equipment by studying the Institute of Fuel. -
1953 New Year Honours 1953 New Year Honours
12/19/2018 1953 New Year Honours 1953 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1953 for the United Kingdom were announced on 30 December 1952,[1] to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1953. This was the first New Year Honours since the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. The Honours list is a list of people who have been awarded one of the various orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom. Honours are split into classes ("orders") and are graded to distinguish different degrees of achievement or service, most medals are not graded. The awards are presented to the recipient in one of several investiture ceremonies at Buckingham Palace throughout the year by the Sovereign or her designated representative. The orders, medals and decorations are awarded by various honours committees which meet to discuss candidates identified by public or private bodies, by government departments or who are nominated by members of the public.[2] Depending on their roles, those people selected by committee are submitted to Ministers for their approval before being sent to the Sovereign for final The insignia of the Grand Cross of the approval. As the "fount of honour" the monarch remains the final arbiter for awards.[3] In the case Order of St Michael and St George of certain orders such as the Order of the Garter and the Royal Victorian Order they remain at the personal discretion of the Queen.[4] The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate. -
Nanoscale Transistors Fall 2006 Mark Lundstrom Electrical
SURF Research Talk, June 16, 2015 Along for the Ride – reflections on the past, present, and future of nanoelectronics Mark Lundstrom [email protected] Electrical and Computer Engineering Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA Lundstrom June 2015 what nanotransistors have enabled “If someone from the 1950’s suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them about today?” “I possess a device in my pocket that is capable of assessing the entirety of information known to humankind.” “I use it to look at pictures of cats and get into arguments with strangers.” Curious, by Ian Leslie, 2014. transistors The basic components of electronic systems. >100 billion transistors Lundstrom June 2015 transistors "The transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research.” -- Ira Flatow, Transistorized! http://www.pbs.org/transistor/ Lundstrom June 2015 “The most important moment since mankind emerged as a life form.” Isaac Asimov (speaking about the “planar process” used to manufacture ICs - - invented by Jean Hoerni, Fairchild Semiconductor, 1959). IEEE Spectrum Dec. 2007 Lundstrom June 2015 Integrated circuits "In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor business…” Silicon Valley: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/ -
Wireless Telegraphy and Radio Wireless Information Network and National Broadcast System
Wireless Telegraphy and Radio Wireless Information Network and National Broadcast System CEE 102: Prof. Michael G. Littman Course Administrator: Hiba Abdel-Jaber [email protected] Computers allowed for NOTETAKING ONLY Please - NO Cell Phones, Texting, Internet use 1 Consumer Goods 1900 - 1980 Economics and Politics 2 Consumer Goods 1900 - 1980 RMS Titanic with Marconi Antenna Economics and Politics 3 Marconi - Wireless messages at sea RMS Titanic with Marconi Antenna 4 transmitter receiver Marconi - Wireless messages at sea Heinrich Hertz’s Experiment - 1888 § Spark in transmitter initiates radio burst § Spark in receiver ring detects radio burst 5 transmitter receiver DEMO Marconi - Wireless messages at sea Heinrich Hertz’s Experiment - 1888 § Spark in transmitter initiates radio burst § Spark in receiver ring detects radio burst 6 transmitter receiver Heinrich Hertz’s Experiment - 1888 § Spark in transmitter initiates radio burst § Spark in receiver ring detects radio burst 7 Electromagnetic Wave wave-speed frequency wavelength Time or Length 8 Electromagnetic Wave wave-speed frequency Wireless Telegraph Hertz Discovery wavelength Marconi Patents Marconi Demonstrations Time or Length 9 Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Wireless Telegraph Hertz Discovery Marconi Patents Marconi Demonstrations 10 Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Wireless Telegraph Hertz Discovery DEMO Marconi Patents Marconi Demonstrations 11 Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph 12 13 Marconi’s Patent for Tuning coherer 14 Tuning Circuit Marconi’s Patent for Tuning L C coherer 1 1 ν = 2π LC 15 Transmitting antenna Marconi’s Patent for Tuning coherer Cornwall (England) 16 KITE Receiving antenna Transmitting antenna Saint John’s (Newfoundland) Cornwall (England) …..dot……….……dot……......…….dot…... December 12, 1901 17 KITE Receiving antenna Saint John’s (Newfoundland) Marconi gets Nobel Prize in 1909 …..dot……….……dot……......…….dot….. -
NATIONAL ACADEMIES of SCIENCES and ENGINEERING NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA
NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE International Union of Radio Science National Radio Science Meeting 4-8 January 2000 Sponsored by USNC/URSI University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado U.S.A. United States National Committee INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RADIO SCIENCE PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS National Radio Science Meeting 4-8 January 2000 Sponsored by USNC/URSI NOTE: Programs and Abstracts of the USNC/URSI Meetings are available from: USNC/URSI National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20418 at $5 for 1983-1999 meetings. The full papers are not published in any collected format; requests for them should be addressed to the authors who may have them published on their own initiative. Please note that these meetings are national. They are not organized by the International Union, nor are the programs available from the International Secretariat. ii MEMBERSHIP United States National Committee INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RADIO SCIENCE Chair: Gary Brown* Secretary & Chair-Elect: Umran S. !nan* Immediate Past Chair: Susan K. Avery* Members Representing Societies, Groups, and Institutes: American Astronomical Society Thomas G. Phillips American Geophysical Union Donald T. Farley American Meteorological Society vacant IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Linda P.B. Katehi IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society Roger Lang IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Arthur A. Oliner Members-at-Large: Amalia Barrios J. Richard Fisher Melinda Picket-May Ronald Pogorzelski W. Ross Stone Richard Ziolkowski Chairs of the USNC/URSI Commissions: Commission A Moto Kanda Commission B Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Commission C Alfred 0.