Doctor as Environmental Steward

Foregrounding the Cyberinfrastructure Center as Cyberinfrastructure Steward

A recent uptick in studies of cyberinfrastructure-enabled research projects has advanced our limited understanding of the use, development and management of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources. Conspicuously absent from most of these studies, though, is any consideration of the key roles played by supercomputer centers, or what we term „CI centers‟, in CI-enabled research networks. This position...

Julian Steward

Pelendur: Steward of the Sysadmin

Here we describe Pelendur, a system for the management of common system operation tasks. Specifically, Pelendur focuses on the management of user accounts and related information (such as groups) across platforms and even for particular software packages (like databases) that require user authentication. Pelendur has reduced the massive process of deleting expired accounts and creating new acco...

Community as Doctor

This is a very welcome reissue in paperback form of a study first published in 1960 of the work of the Henderson Hospital for patients with personality disorders. Dr. Rapaport and his associates made a critical examination for four years of the working of this pioneer unit and tried to make some assessment of its results. It was an immensely difficult task and the conclusions inevitably tend to...

Steward Leadership: Characteristics of the Steward Leader in Christian Nonprofit Organizations