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Organizational and Decision-Making Tools
This chapter includes a selection of organizational management, decision-making, and business process frameworks. It delves into the people, teams,...
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Problem-Solving Tracks and Service Modules
This chapter shows how to focus brainpower on an efficient problem-solving approach. A track is a highway for specific types of service problems in...
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Lacking Relevant Know-How
This chapter further unpacks the outsider problem by explaining why and how marginalized and minority entrepreneurs lack relevant know-how. It...
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An Exciting Journey: From Finite State Machine to Circuit Design and Ultimately to Web-Based Silicon IP Exchange
This chapter relates the journey of a girl born in a remote European region under war and who had low chance for accessing engineering study but who...
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Handling Contradictions: The Structural Work of Leadership
All companies have to cope with inherent contradictions, to which people are naturally averse. There are several dimensions of contradictions: short...
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A Short History of the AI
In ancient language, an automaton is an apparatus that can act independently (autonomously). According to ancient understanding, self-activity...
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A Troubled Childhood
As clocks across Florida struck eight on the last Monday of 1980, a new era began. In the early morning gloom, the doors of the Vehicle Assembly...
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Top Ten Challenges Facing Autonomous Driving
Despite the continuous development and maturation of the technology, numerous challenges nevertheless impede the practical use of autonomous...
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Path to a Quick Turnaround
A great deal of work across scores of operations was performed by Level-IV personnel, far too much in the early years to detail in the pages of this...
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The Quest for Energy-Aware Computing: Confessions of an Accidental Engineer
As a professor of electrical and computer engineering, I consider myself lucky and privileged to educate wonderful undergraduate students, do cutting...
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Prelude to the High Frontier: Early Space Vehicles
In the closing months of World War II, Henry “Hap” Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces (AAF), persuaded Caltech’s eminent aeronautics...
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Is Your Business Reaching Its Full Scale on Global Markets?
“What are your firm’s internationalization goals?” is the opening question of this book. An immediate answer may be that we go abroad to increase our...
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Switching Comets
During the mid-1990s, when the details of the Rosetta rendezvous mission were still being refined, mission planners were considering several possible...
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How Safe Is Artificial Intelligence?
Machine learning dramatically changes our civilization. We rely more and more on efficient algorithms, because otherwise the complexity of our...
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Introduction
In Europe, the collapse of financial stability in 2007–8 was a crucial factor that triggered market turbulence and uncertainty. The most intense...
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The War Against the Sea
The relationship between humans and the sea and the sea’s creatures never was a peaceful one. Humans soon recognized that the oceans contain large...
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Management, Performance, and Productivity of the MSL Science Team
Carrying out a complex planetary mission takes a lot of planning and management to achieve a successful mission. That is particularly so for the Mars...
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Brain and Mind
Modern imaging techniques provide detailed insight into the functioning of the brain in living beings. But can we get inside the brain and minds of...
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Lessons of the Crisis for Eurozone Reform
The euro crisis provides a wealth of lessons that should not be ignored. Financial stability was grossly neglected before the crisis. Completing the...
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Modern Missions
Following the footsteps of the Soviets, Americans, and Europeans, Japan was the fourth to successfully place an orbiter around Venus. It didn’t go...