This commentary provides an overview of the organizational readiness for change (ORC) literature over the last decade, with respect to prevailing definitions, theories, and tools to guide assessment of ORC in preparation for implementation. The development of the OR4KT by Gagnon et al is an important contribution to this body of work. This commentary highlights the strengths of the OR4KT includ...

Agile software development methods, including Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) have been mainly applied to small-scale and dynamically evolving software development projects (e.g., Internet and Web software development) with some success, due to their lighter and faster development life cycle. However, there has been very limited evidence of the effe...

A major computer operations problem is the conversion of programs from one language to another when a replacement computer is acquired. Emulation was developed as one solution to the conversion problem. Emulation allows the machine instructions of the emulated (target) machine to be executed on the emulating (host) machine. Thus permanent program conversion is avoided. Frequently, emulated prog...

Our goal is to ease the parallelization of applications on distributed-memory parallel processors. Part of our team is implementing parallel kernels common to industrially significant applications using High Performance Fortran (HPF) and the Message Passing Interface (MPI). They are assisted in this activity by a second group developing an integrated tool environment, Annai, consisting of a par...

Thomas Kuhn's famous model of the components and dynamics of scientific revolutions is still dominant to this day across science, philosophy, and history. The guiding philosophical theme of this article is that, concerning actual revolutions in neuroscience over the past 60 years, Kuhn's account is wrong. There have been revolutions, and new ones are brewing, but they do not turn on competing p...