The Day After Tomorrow

The Ohio State University 1970 - 07 Tomorrow : or the Day After

Tomorrow is Another Day: Information Systems Governance

In many organizations, the Chief Information Officer is considered to preside over a separate function, providing a service to the business. Discussions about governance are confined to properties of this service, e.g. through a service level agreement. Members of the CIO’s staff are often seen as technical experts possessing esoteric skills desired but not understood by other staff. Many resea...

In Control, Almost from the Beginning Until the Day After Tomorrow

I entered the field of control as a Ph.D. student in September 1965, over 40 years ago. A couple of years before, Roger Brockett and Michael Athans had joined the Electrical Engineering faculty ofMIT. They introduced Modern Control Theory, as the state space approach was called then, as a research activity and had set up a graduate curriculum in this area. In my first semester, I took courses o...

Philosophy of science: how to identify the potential research for the day after tomorrow?

We were asked to participate in a workshop to assist the European Commission on how to choose financial support for high-potential, basic research projects that can give new scientific breakthroughs and thus contribute significantly to the positive development of society, industry, and economy for the day after tomorrow. At this workshop, we analyzed the problem in some detail using experience ...

"The day after tomorrow": anatomy of an ‘r’ strategist aquatic invasion

Invasive alien species, following an arrival, undergo different colonization stages. The full pattern of an invasion is seldom tracked as many studies on invasive processes only take place over a few years. In this study the invasion of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771), was followed for more than a ten-year period. It developed an expansion stage with peak abundance (outbre...