. Digital information implies a way of mass-distribution and an extensive culture of sharing that raises some fundamental questions on the terms of access. My research objects and agents are taking action in the middle of an on-going struggle, between forces that seek to get and maintain control over

makes a systematic understanding of patch maintainability and understandability even more critical. We present a human study involving over 150 participants, 32 real-world defects, and 40 distinct patches. In the study, humans perform tasks that demonstrate their understanding of the control flow, state

that characterizes developmental change in behavioral inhibition. The term behavioral inhibition is used to describe temperamental differences in infants' and young children's initial reactions to a range of novel stimuli including people, objects, contexts, and challenging situations Fox and Rubin have

ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world

sector owns 25% of Cisco. We now construct a world where investors simply allocate flows in proportion to initial fund asset value. Since in quarter 0 the total mutual fund sector has $100 B in assets and the total inflow is $10 B, the counterfactual assumption is that all funds get an inflow equal to 10

Report Documentation Page Form ApprovedOMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing

Digital signatures are an important primitive for building secure systems and are used in most real world security protocols. However, almost all popular signature schemes are either based on the factoring as-sumption (RSA) or the hardness of the discrete logarithm problem (DSA/ECDSA). In the case

April 29, 2011Für UnsShe had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it Lewis CarrollThe following document, written under the supervision of Dr. reviewed by:

-saturated environment has led to a proliferation of prosumerism through which many consumers have become producers of content. Appropriation and redeployment of copyrighted materials in the prosumption arena has drawn creators and right holders into conflict. Copyright owners seek to maintain control over information

, in light of the philosophical questions raised by these thinkers. The paper concludes by arguing that digital technology, as it is elaborated in the context of contemporary liberal capitalism, provides a material setting in which community is likely to thrive only in a particular, truncated form