The Higgs boson: shall we see it soon or is it still far away?

3 M ay 1 99 9 The Higgs Boson : Shall We See It Soon Or Is It Still Far Away ?

" The search for the Higgs boson is the task # 1 of high energy physics " L. Abstract The status of the Higgs boson mass in the Standard Model and its supersym-metric extensions is reviewed and the perspectives of Higgs searches are discussed. The parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is analysed with the emphasis on the lightest Higgs mass. The infrared behaviour ...

Ubiquitous Computing: Shall we Understand It?

Pervasive or ubiquitous computing has become an aspiration of the computing community in the last 15 years. Its vision, pioneered by Mark Weiser [1], is that populations of computing entities—hardware and software—will become an effective part of our environment, performing tasks that support our broad purposes without our continual direction, thus allowing us to be largely unaware of them. The...

Abstracting Time Away (and Still Having It)

ing time away (and still having it) Simin Nadjm-Tehrani Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Link oping University [[email protected]]

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It

Journal Impact Factor: it will go away soon.

Like many other investigators who participate on editorial boards of various journals, I have witnessed the emergence of the so-called ‘‘Journal Impact Factor’’ over the last 10 years. The Impact Factor (IF) is a number derived by dividing the number of citations a journal receives over a period of time by the number of papers published. It is an average indicator of how frequently papers publi...