• Why is data-intensive computing relevant to cloud computing? • Why is MapReduce programming model important for data-intensive computing? • What is MapReduce? • How is its support structure different from traditional structures? 6/23/2010 Bina Ramamurthy 2010 4Relevance to WIC • Data-intensiveness is the main driving force behind the growth of the cloud concept • Cloud computing is necessary to address the scale and other issues of data-intensive computing • Cloud is turning computing into an everyday gadget • Women are indeed experts at managing and effectively using gadgets!!??

It was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant, (Though all of them were blind.) That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The first approached the elephant, And, happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: &

variables. Finally, there was some evidence that implicit self-esteem measures are sensitive to context. The implications of these findings for the future of implicit self-esteem research are discussed. According to Indian folklore, there were once six blind men who had heard of the animal called

The problem of global imbalances and the persistence of the U.S. deficit have been the subject of wildly differing interpretations. Among the most prominent are the deficient U.S. savings view, the new economy view, the global savings glut view, and the Sino-American codependency view. These four interpretations have different policy implications and suggest

“Blind Men and the Elephant ” (Blimey) framework in which we exploit this structure, and demonstrate how problems in a MapReduce system can be diagnosed by corroborating the multiple viewpoints. More specifically, we present algorithms within the Blimey framework based on OS-level performance counters

Abstract. Until recently, investigations of the neurobiological substrates of simple forms of learning and memory in the marine snail Aplysia have focused mostly on plastic changes that occur within the presynaptic sensory neurons. Here, I summarize the results of recent studies that indicate that exclusively presynaptic processes cannot account for simple forms of learning in Aplysia. In particular, I present evidence that postsynaptic mechanisms play a far more important role in nonassociative learning in Aplysia than has been appreciated before now. Moreover, I describe recent data that suggests the intriguing hypothesis that the persistent, learning-induced changes in Aplysia sensory neurons might depend critically on postsynaptic signals for their induction. Finally, I discuss the potential applicability of this hypothesis to learning-related synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain.

Design is an activity that is central and pervasive in our lives. It is an activity we must understand and one we must be able to do well! This is made difficult by the fact that (1) how we view design changes with the way we view our world, (2) there is no common understanding of the term design, and (3) while design researchers and design practitioners both have much to contribute, they are separate communities. The concept of patterns introduced into architecture by Alexander et al (1977) offers the promise of resolving these problems. But, this promise is largely unrealized. Why this is so, is the focus of this paper.

Donald Puchala's metaphor of the blind men and the elephant is used to stress what the authors consider to be the current situation with the financial aid cutbacks from the European Commission: each of one of the member states is able to see only part of the problem and cannot see the whole

We propose an automated and unsupervised method-ology for a novel summarization of group behavior based on content preference. We show that graph the-oretical community evolution (based on similarity of user preference for content) is effective in indexing these dynamics. Combined with text analysis that tar-gets automatically-identified representative content for each community, our method produces a novel multi-layered representation of evolving group behavior. We demonstrate this methodology in the context of politi-cal discourse on a social news site with data that spans more than four years and find coexisting political lean-ings over extended periods and a disruptive external event that lead to a significant reorganization of exist-ing patterns. Finally, where there exists no ground truth, we propose a new evaluation approach by using en-tropy measures as evidence of coherence along the evo-lution path of these groups. This methodology is valu-able to designers and managers of online forums in need of granular analytics of user activity, as well as to re-searchers in social and political sciences who wish to extend their inquiries to large-scale data available on the web. 1

This paper re-evaluates the concept of resistance in a postmodernist perspective based on the results of three interviews given in a public building service organization, which is undergoing an organizational change. Deconstruction, intertextuality and narrative causality analysis methods were used. The paper proposes that resistance is caused by the differences between employees ’ and change-initiator’s subjective realities. The finding supports the view of treating resistance as a constructive tool for organizational change. The author suggests to introduce the concepts of subjective reality and postmodern in the organization and encourage employee participation and communication to overcome the resistance.