This essay is concerned with the development of professional ethics in service institutions. The discussion deals with the transition from simple acceptance of definite responsibilities in functional relationships to the primal teleological problem of selecting among competing groups with their own semi-independent value systems and conflicting ends in view (objectives). In the process, a profe…
My premise is that the destiny of man is to emerge or evolve toward an advancing potential and that individual liberty is essential to such progress. Unless a reader shares my premise, he will not respond to my reasoning; nor will it be possible for him to arrive at my conclusions. He may have his eye set on a star I do not see or, if seeing, care nothing whatsoever about. I side with Th…
Poorly performing enterprise applications are the weakest links in a corporation ’ s management chains, causing delays and disruptions of critical business functions. In trying to strengthen the links, companies spend dearly on applications tuning and sizing; unfortunately, the only deliverables of many of such ventures are lost investment as well as the ruined credibility of computer profess…
Often, in past years, the computer systems were isolated from other systems; each system had its specific job and worked alone to execute it. Today, computer systems have grown exponentially both in number and in size. They, generally, are interconnected and collaborated to each other exchanging information and sharing resources. The problem with this pervasive presence of computer systems and…
Security is an ever-present consideration for applications and data in the cloud. It is a concern for executives trying to come up with criteria for migrating an application, for marketing organizations in trying to position the company in a good light as enlightened technology adopters, for application architects attempting to build a safe foundation and operations staff making sure bad guys d…
There are a number of protocols and standards, mostly built on top of HTTP, designed for building Web Services (note the capitalization). These standards are collectively called the WS-* stack. They include WS-Notification, WS-Security, WSDL, and SOAP. Throughout this book we give the name “Big Web Services” to this collection of tech- nologies as a fairly gentle term of disparagement. Thi…
For some reason, Bo’s feet started to turn in. The doctors said that he would need to have casts again to make sure his feet would be straight and strong.
Participating in the development of this Institute of Medicine report has been of special importance to me. I have worked for over 40 years to identify social and behavioral factors that could be useful in improving health and wellbeing and it is especially satisfying to now work with colleagues to assess the progress that has been made in this effort. My first exposure to this field took place…
An in-depth examination of the core concepts and general principles of Web application development. This book uses examples from specific technologies (e.g., servlet API or XSL), without promoting or endorsing particular platforms or APIs. Such knowledge is critical when designing and debugging complex systems. This conceptual understanding makes it easier to learn new APIs that arise in the r…
A little more than a decade ago at CERN (the scientific research laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland), Tim Berners-Lee presented a proposal for an information management system that would enable the sharing of knowledge and resources over a computer network. The system he proposed has propagated itself into what can truly be called a World Wide Web, as people all over the world use it for a wi…
This chapter is written for two books. For the Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology (EPLTT) book, this chapter serves as an introduction. For the Foundations of Instructional Technology book, this chapter serves as an overview of learning and instructional theory. Each chapter contains a thorough description of a theory, model, or strategy along with multimedia files t…