Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Open Source Revolution: Transforming The Software Industry With Help From The Government, Mitchell L. Stoltz
The Open Source Revolution: Transforming The Software Industry With Help From The Government, Mitchell L. Stoltz
Pomona Senior Theses
A new method for making software is stealthily gaining ground in the computer industry, offering a promise of better, cheaper software and the empowerment of the user. The open source movement could revolutionize the software industry...if it succeeds. Open source means software that you are allowed to copy, modify, and give to friends. Source code , the lists of instructions which tell computers how to run, is readily available, allowing you to look inside the workings of a program and change it to suit your needs. A group of programmers, companies, users, and activists have gathered in support of this …
Field Station Under Threat, Paul Faulstich
Field Station Under Threat, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
As reported in the last issue of The Other Side, The Bernard Biological Field Station of the Colleges is slated to be the site of the Keck Graduate Institute, the newest (but yet unbuilt) addition to the Claremont Consortium. With Pitzer casting the sole dissenting vote, the Claremont Colleges approved construction of the Keck Institute on eleven acres of the 85 acre Field Station.
Letter To The New York Times, Arthur B. Powell, Miriam L. Yevick
Letter To The New York Times, Arthur B. Powell, Miriam L. Yevick
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Book Announcement: Women, Art And Geometry In Southern Africa, By Paulus Gerdes
Book Announcement: Women, Art And Geometry In Southern Africa, By Paulus Gerdes
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Land Development And Biotechnology At The Claremont Colleges, Paul Faulstich
Land Development And Biotechnology At The Claremont Colleges, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Founded on the Oxford model of a cluster of institutions, the Claremont Colleges has periodically established a new school. In the Spring of 1997, the Board of Fellows of the Claremont University Center charged with policy-making for the consortium-voted to establish a seventh college; the Keck Graduate Institute of applied life sciences. or bioengineering. Despite other landholdings, including a golf course and a non-operational gravel quarry, the Board of Fellows voted to site the New Venture on a portion-approximately eleven acres--of the Bernard Biological Field Station. (Pitzer's vote was cast against building on the Field Station.)