Comsoc's Commitment to Diversity

Commitment to Diversity

Today, the Diversity Committee assists and informs department leadership in the recruitment and retention of students and faculty from underrepresented populations to better serve our diverse patient populations, with a member of the diversity committee serving on each search committee. The committee also sponsors and selects the recipient of the annual Dr. Evelyn Lee Visiting Scholar Lecture i...

Scaling up WA* with Commitment and Diversity

Weighted A* (WA*) is a popular search technique that scales up A* while sacrificing solution quality. Recently, researchers have proposed two variants of WA*: KWA* adds diversity to WA*, and MSC-WA* adds commitment to WA*. In this paper, we demonstrate that there is benefit in combining them. The resulting MSC-KWA* scales up to larger domains than WA*, KWA* and MSC-WA*, which is rather surprisi...

Celebrating ONS's 40th anniversary and its commitment 
to cultural competency, diversity, and inclusiveness.

Today, we all have been taught that cultural competence is a valuable tool in providing patient-centered care. However, this concept was not considered a standard of oncology nursing practice when the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) began. It was not regarded as a critical component of patient safety, satisfaction, or quality care. In fact, in the 1970s, the importance of providing culturally co...

Commitment to Priorities ∗

(3) a. Friends, begin your meditation now! ⇒ b. They should begin to meditate now. (4) a. Do not park in the dry cleaner’s lot! ⇐ b. They should not park in the dry cleaner’s lot. ∗I would like to thank audiences at the University of British Columbia and Yale University for very helpful feedback on the material presented here. This research has been supported by NSF award BCS-1053038 ‘The Seman...

The commitment to care.