In this document we define a contract in the context of the GrADS project and describe the current software infrastructure for creating and monitoring contracts. The mechanisms presented are quite flexible and support a wide range of contract specification and verification implementations. This flexibility allows for experimentation to identify the types of contracts that are most effective for...

Finding your passion is key to success, Brian Kobilka, MD, said in a speech June 15 at the School of Medicine commencement. In his usual self-deprecating manner, the Stanford scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry last year, minimized his credentials and credited support from others for much of his success. “I believe my career to date is an example of how a relatively average ...

Many graduates exit TAFE or University studies with a casual or volunteer position and a promising future. However, many more have no idea how to get that elusive dream job or to further the position they already have. As a new graduate of the TAFE Diploma of Library and Information Services, I have been a volunteer, a casual employee at four jobs (at the same time), and now aim to become an ac...

While the ACO can find the optimal path of network, there are too many iterative times and too slow the convergence speed is also very slow. This paper proposes the Q-ACO QoSR based on convergence expectation with the real-time and the high efficiency of network. This algorithm defines index expectation function of link,and proposes convergence expectation and convergence grads. This algorithm ...

Rather than focusing on his many scientific successes, Peter Kim, PhD, a biochemist known for his innovative work in developing and shepherding drugs to market, chose instead to tell the School of Medicine’s graduating class of 2016 about one of his key failures. “The greatest scientific failure in my career was when I had to stop a clinical trial of a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. And it came just as ...

Developmental biologist Lucy Shapiro, PhD, told 2015 graduates of the School of Medicine how, as a basic scientist who spent most of her life studying singlecelled bacteria, she stepped out of her laboratory and onto the global stage to try to help the world avert a potential disaster. “About 15 years ago, I sat up and looked around me and found that we were in the midst of a perfect storm,” sa...

Advances in networking technologies will soon make it possible to use the global information infrastructure in a qualitatively different way—as a computational as well as an information resource. As described in the recent book “The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure,” this “Grid” will connect the nation’s computers, databases, instruments, and people in a seamless web of comput...

In spite of the existence of several Grid middleware projects, developing and executing programs on the computational Grid remains a user intensive process. The Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) project is working to make the Grid easy to use despite the dynamically changing status of Grid resources. Several software packages are being ported to the GrADS framework in order to guide...

T w o run-o f f s were necessary to get a satisfactory ballot this week in the election for the President of the Senior Class. The first ballot was taken on Monday but w a s not counted after it was discovered; by officers of the S t u dent Association that i l legal practices w e r e committed around the polls. In the second election which was held Wednesday, Carloss Morris was elected with a ...