Unlike a passive sponge floating in a sea of information, humans are active information foragers – informavores – who gather and consume new knowledge. From controlling the movement of our eyes to determining which sources of news to consult, judging the quality of alternative sources of information is a critical part of our behavior. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers ...

S 11 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20 21, 2010, James Madison University Harrisonburg, VAS OF PAPERS, 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20 21, 2010, James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA Aeronautical and Aerospace Sciences TRACING THE GROWTH OF THE U.S. NAVY AVIATION. M. Leroy Spearman. Langley Research Center, Ham...

Are computing systems trustworthy? To answer this, we need to know three things: what the systems are supposed to do, what they are not supposed to do, and what they actually do. All three are problematic. There is no expressive, practical way to specify what systems must do and must not do. And if we had a specification, it would likely be infeasible to show that existing computing systems sat...

My first visit to the USSR was in February 1981, by coincidence at exactly the same time that Nick Eberstadt published a commentary on ‘The health crisis in the USSR’ in the New York Review of Books. 1 The USSR was one of the two world superpowers, with enough nuclear weapons to take humanity back to the Stone Age but its enormous military capacity did not quite seem to be matched by its basic ...

In this study, the operational vibration analysis and evaluation of the pedestal mounted missile system, BORA, which was developed for air defense of naval platforms, are performed. The main mission of BORA is the low level air defense of naval platforms such as frigates and fast attack boats. The gyro stabilized turret of BORA enables automatic target tracking and firing capabilities without b...

2020 Vision: This year has seen the first Early-Career Board, a virtual symposium, launch of Chemistry Europe, next Award winner, and some exciting special collections containing great selection top multidisciplinary research. Editor in Chief Jonathan Faiz outlines news from ChemPlusChem 2020, introduces latest developments for coming year. At beginning when I outlined our plans year, no one co...

Although coercion by cyberpower alone may be limited today, if appropriate steps are taken, by the year 2035 cyberpower will be a useful coercive instrument of power. This essay explores the reasons why cyberpower is not coercive today, and ways it may become more coercive in the future. The cyber attacks employed against Estonia and Iran provide evidence cyberpower is currently not coercive, a...