ACRL Nominating Committees Selected

IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Revision of the Nominating and Recall Committees Timeline

RFC 3777 defines the Nominations and Recall Committee’s (NomCom’s) operation, and includes a sample timeline for major steps in the NomCom process that meets the minimum normative requirements for the process. Recent NomComs have been scheduling based on the sample timeline, and the chairs of the last three NomComs -Danny McPherson (2004-2005), Ralph Droms (2005-2006), and Andrew Lange (2006-20...

Expectations and Preferences in Presidential Nominating Campaigns

Message from the TCDE Chair Nominating Committee

The Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) is elected for a two-year period. The mandate of the current Chair, Kyu-Young Whang, is coming to an end and it is time to elect a Chair for the next two years. The TCDE Chair Nominating Committee, consisting of Amr El Abaddi, Paul Larson, and David Lomet, has nominated two candidates for the position as Chair...

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

Knowledge and utilisation regarding untied fund among village level committees in selected villages of Wardha, Maharashtra

Introduction Under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), village health and sanitation committees have been formed at village level in order to enable participation of people in monitoring and planning of health services. In Maharashtra state, considering the high prevalence of malnutrition, a nutrition component has been added and thus these committees are called village health nutrition a...