Sejak reformasi dan keterbukaan Tiongkok dimulai pada tahun 1978, negara ini telah mengalami kemajuan signifikan dalam jalur sosialisme berkarakter Tiongkok di bawah kepemimpinan Partai Komunis Tiongkok. Upaya reformasi dan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang berkelanjutan selama lebih dari 30 tahun telah mengubah Tiongkok menjadi negara dengan perekonomian terbesar kedua di dunia dan membawa banyak perub…
Hampir 3.500 tahun yang lalu, seni dan ilmu administrasi ditemukan oleh para ahli Taurat Mesopotamia. Administrasi kemudian menjadi alat yang layak untuk pendirian negara pertama dalam sejarah, yang dikenal sebagai Akkad. Administrasi juga merupakan elemen utama yang bertanggung jawab atas penciptaan tulisan, sebuah instrumen yang dibutuhkan oleh para juru tulis Mesopotamia awal untuk mencatat …
Volume ini berisi prosiding Lokakarya Provenance dan Anotasi Internasional (IPAW) ke-5, yang diadakan pada tanggal 10-11 Juni 2014 di German Aerospace Center (DLR) di Cologne, Jerman. Untuk pertama kalinya, IPAW berkolaborasi dengan Workshop Teori dan Praktek Asal (TaPP). Bersama-sama, dua lokakarya asal usul terkemuka mengadakan ProvenanceWeek 2014, seminggu penuh kegiatan terkait asal usul ya…
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now - not i…
An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties. In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly characterized as a direct object. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure. The di…
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How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.
To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for engin…
Over the course of less than 20 years, inventor Frank J Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of breakthroughs. Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology.
The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.