Lee A. Bygrave and Jon Bing (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199561131
- eISBN:
- 9780191721199
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199561131.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Information Technology, Political Economy
This book provides an exposition of key issues in the development, steering, and management of the Internet. Much of its focus is on the governance of the infrastructure for Internet communication, ...
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This book provides an exposition of key issues in the development, steering, and management of the Internet. Much of its focus is on the governance of the infrastructure for Internet communication, particularly data transmission protocols, protocol addresses, and corresponding domain names. It also maps the development and application of core principles of network design for the Internet. A recurrent theme of the book is the challenges associated with establishing global, multi-stakeholder governance structures based on bottom-up, consensus-seeking decisional procedures, without direct foundation in a treaty framework. The book's basic argument is that the success of the Internet is largely due to its development within open and democratic cultures, and that Internet governance structures ought accordingly to continue to cultivate such cultures.Less
This book provides an exposition of key issues in the development, steering, and management of the Internet. Much of its focus is on the governance of the infrastructure for Internet communication, particularly data transmission protocols, protocol addresses, and corresponding domain names. It also maps the development and application of core principles of network design for the Internet. A recurrent theme of the book is the challenges associated with establishing global, multi-stakeholder governance structures based on bottom-up, consensus-seeking decisional procedures, without direct foundation in a treaty framework. The book's basic argument is that the success of the Internet is largely due to its development within open and democratic cultures, and that Internet governance structures ought accordingly to continue to cultivate such cultures.
Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195157420
- eISBN:
- 9780199894000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195157420.003.0009
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This chapter examines the Discovery Institute’s aggressive cultivation of political influence at the state and national levels. Its maneuverings in Washington State, Kansas, and Ohio are discussed in ...
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This chapter examines the Discovery Institute’s aggressive cultivation of political influence at the state and national levels. Its maneuverings in Washington State, Kansas, and Ohio are discussed in detail. The discussion of Kansas includes the establishment of the Intelligent Design Network as a de facto arm of the Discovery Institute and the two organizations’ attempt to insert intelligent design into Kansas’s state science standards. The effort to insert intelligent design into Ohio science standards includes the Discovery Institute’s adoption of terms such as “teach the controversy” to disguise its true aims. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of the Discovery Institute’s “Santorum amendment,” an episode in which stealth creationist language was inserted into the legislative history of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.Less
This chapter examines the Discovery Institute’s aggressive cultivation of political influence at the state and national levels. Its maneuverings in Washington State, Kansas, and Ohio are discussed in detail. The discussion of Kansas includes the establishment of the Intelligent Design Network as a de facto arm of the Discovery Institute and the two organizations’ attempt to insert intelligent design into Kansas’s state science standards. The effort to insert intelligent design into Ohio science standards includes the Discovery Institute’s adoption of terms such as “teach the controversy” to disguise its true aims. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of the Discovery Institute’s “Santorum amendment,” an episode in which stealth creationist language was inserted into the legislative history of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.
Bob Rehak
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479813155
- eISBN:
- 9781479897070
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479813155.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores the creation of Star Trek in the 1960s, tracing its history from preproduction to cancelation and through the subsequent decade, as the series evolved into both a fan phenomenon ...
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This chapter explores the creation of Star Trek in the 1960s, tracing its history from preproduction to cancelation and through the subsequent decade, as the series evolved into both a fan phenomenon and a nascent film franchise. Arguing that both paths were facilitated by the emergence of a “blueprint culture” oriented around the creation of reference materials, the chapter suggests that franchises such as Trek are built on a “design network” allowing both fans and producers to extend the fictional storyworld infinitely yet systematically. The chapter concludes with a discussion of fan films and copyright legislation around contemporary Trek productions, suggesting the continued copresence of fannish and authorial interests in the technical dimensions of Trek’s future history.Less
This chapter explores the creation of Star Trek in the 1960s, tracing its history from preproduction to cancelation and through the subsequent decade, as the series evolved into both a fan phenomenon and a nascent film franchise. Arguing that both paths were facilitated by the emergence of a “blueprint culture” oriented around the creation of reference materials, the chapter suggests that franchises such as Trek are built on a “design network” allowing both fans and producers to extend the fictional storyworld infinitely yet systematically. The chapter concludes with a discussion of fan films and copyright legislation around contemporary Trek productions, suggesting the continued copresence of fannish and authorial interests in the technical dimensions of Trek’s future history.
Reinoud Maex, Michiel Berends, and Hugo Cornelis
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013277
- eISBN:
- 9780262258722
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013277.003.0014
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Techniques
This chapter deals with the large networks in systems neuroscience. It presents examples of scientific questions that warranted the simulation of large-scale networks, along with a summary of ...
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This chapter deals with the large networks in systems neuroscience. It presents examples of scientific questions that warranted the simulation of large-scale networks, along with a summary of alternative solution strategies which avoid large-scale simulations. The chapter reports the most important and time-consuming part of the modeling process—network design—and analyzes the large-scale datasets and the epistemological question of how much physiological inference can be made from incompletely constrained models. It shows that nonlinear systems can display complex interactions among processes with different time courses.Less
This chapter deals with the large networks in systems neuroscience. It presents examples of scientific questions that warranted the simulation of large-scale networks, along with a summary of alternative solution strategies which avoid large-scale simulations. The chapter reports the most important and time-consuming part of the modeling process—network design—and analyzes the large-scale datasets and the epistemological question of how much physiological inference can be made from incompletely constrained models. It shows that nonlinear systems can display complex interactions among processes with different time courses.
Alessandro Treves
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012935
- eISBN:
- 9780262255264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012935.003.0043
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This chapter focuses on the discovery of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) of the rat which has helped to clarify the special hippocampal role for spatial representation and spatial ...
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This chapter focuses on the discovery of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) of the rat which has helped to clarify the special hippocampal role for spatial representation and spatial memory. It also discusses the computational approach to hippocampal network design.Less
This chapter focuses on the discovery of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) of the rat which has helped to clarify the special hippocampal role for spatial representation and spatial memory. It also discusses the computational approach to hippocampal network design.
