Jesse is mentioned in this Washington Post article about the Sloan Foundation’s support for David Kirsch in studying Dot Com failures.
News
NASA uses our LogletLab
NASA uses our LogletLab S-Curve
analysis software to help improve software reliability:
“Hardware and Software Reliability (323-08)
Application and Improvement of Software Reliability Models” (see page 30).
(a local copy of the PDF is here:
nasaLoglet.pdf
).
The Electric Power Research
The Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI) celebrated the 90th
birthday of EPRI founder Chauncey Starr with a seminar on the prospects for
a North American continental supergrid for electricity transmission,
keynoted by Chauncey himself.
Jesse had the honor and fun of offering a
brief tribute.
Dionel Lopez joins PHE
Dionel Lopez joins PHE as an Intern.
Virtual University: The second version
The second version (more features, fewer bugs) of the university simulator,
Virtual U., debuted 1 February at a workshop at the U. of Pennsylvania for
about two dozen schools using the simulator in the teaching of management
of higher education. Herewith Jesse’s opening keynote,
“Virtual U.: Origins and New Release”.
In May 2001 IIASA
In May 2001 IIASA sponsored a meeting in Helsinki about the Institute for its
Nordic members. Jesse spoke about why IIASA has mattered in general and in
particular its role in the development of industrial ecology. The IIASA
Society has now posted his talk, “Industrial ecology, its origins, progress,
and relation to IIASA” and we have as well, IIASA_Ausubel_2001
On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest
We post Jesse’s “On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest.” Prepared as a plenary talk for the September 2001 Denver convention of the Society of American Foresters, it was not delivered because of 9/11 but will be published in the proceedings, soon to appear.
Can Technology Spare the Earth?
We post the 1996 American Scientist magazine article Can Technology Spare the Earth?
Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert
We newly post Jesse’s plenary address to the July 2001 Amsterdam Global Change Open Science Conference, “Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert.”
Census of Marine Life US Postal Stamps
available from Zazzle.com
stamp designs by Mark Stoeckle