Author: Kim H. Pries File Type: pdf There are many books on project management and many on embedded systems, but few address the project management of embedded products from concept to production. Project Management of Complex and Embedded Systems Ensuring Product Integrity and Program Quality uses proven Project Management methods andelements of IEEE embedded software development techniques, to explain how to deliver a reliable complex system to market. This volume begins with a general discussion of project management, followed by an examination of the various tools used before a project is underway. The book then delves into the specific project stages concept, product development, process development, validation of the product and process, and release to production. Finally, post-project stages are explored, including failure reporting, analysis, corrective actions, and product support. The book draws heavily on information from Department of Defense sources as well as systems developed by the Automotive Industry Action Group, General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford to standardize the approach to designing and developing new products. These automotive development and production ideas have universal value, particularly the concept of process and design controls. The authors use these systems to explain project management techniques that can assist developers of any embedded system. The methods explored can be adapted toward mechanical development projects as well. The text includes numerous war stories offering concrete solutions to problems that might occur in production. Tables and illustrative figures are provided to further clarify the material. Organized sequentially to follow the normal life cycle of a project, this book helps project managers identify challenges before they become problems and resolve those issues that cannot be avoided.**

Author: Mbarek Sryfi File Type: pdf This selection of Hassan Najmis poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Moroccos foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe-inspiring desert wastes, and seaside vistas are found within the exquisitely subtle lyric moods and nuances of Najmis ars poetica, providing insight into the geographical, political, and linguistic ferment that have made Morocco an exciting hub of creative activity in the twenty-first century. **Review Hassan Najmi is a vivid, sad, wise, and versatile poet. These poems are outstanding, each a welcome report from the heart of the Maghreb. In particular, North Americans should know his Umber Winds sequence a response in anguished surrealist fragments to the 1991 bombing of Baghdad. Najmi conjures the solitude and acute dignity Ive heard in music from Morocco or Andalusia I preferred to remain alone with only the bitter feelings worthy of a poem. The translators Sryfi and Sellin have provided something of true elegance here. Andrew Schelling, author of Love and the Turning Seasons Indias Poetry of Spiritual and Erotic Longing Hassan Najmis poetry balances deftly on a tight rope tensed between the direct statement of the prose-poem and the reversed or inversed (in-verse-d?) image, both aspects tethered to the normal yet absolute surrealism of the everydayan everyday as familiar with war as with peacewhen we are constantly bombarded by our old wounds. The poem, then, is a calmly-desperate message in a bottle that someone on another shore will pick upto be surprised by and delight in a woman that saves the sea from drowning, a hand that forgets it has fingers while the writings sky is lush with the foliage of shrapnel. Pierre Joris, author of Barzakh (Poems 20002012) andThe University of California Book of North African Literature How I want to read these poems in their original language. And yet, theres a way in which translation is just one more mysterious, evocative, and also earth-grounded wave or layer as words move through air, water, eyes, bodies and night itself, through The Blueness of the Evening. In this alluring, profoundly intelligent, and stunningly lyrical collection of poems by Hassan Najmi, with new translations by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, one is invited into a world within the night of your eyes, so, why waste time on words? Using short, deceptively simple lines interspersed with longer flowing lyric, the poet narrates place, loss, touch and longingmostly longing, body and spirit. And I came to know the desert. It is all that space of loneliness within me. These are enormous poems in small spaces. I sip them and sip them. Liminal. Beautiful. They are how language lives and breathes. Kathy Engel, chair and associate arts professor, Tisch Department of Art and Public Policy, New York University About the Author Hassan Najmi, born in Ben Ahmed in 1960, now resides in Rabat. He is the author of two novels and ten poetry collections. His poetry has been translated into more than ten languages and he has himself translated many poets into Arabic, including Giuseppe Ungaretti, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Philippe Jaccottet, Yannis Ritsos, and Anna Akhmatova. Mbarek Sryfi, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, has translated fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including three books, two from Arabic and one from French. Eric Sellin, professor emeritus at Tulane University, is the author or editor of nine books of poetry written in English and French and many translations published in anthologies and journals. Since his retirement from teaching in 2001, Sellin has been translating poetry and writing essays on the art and theory of translation.

Author: Barry Wellman File Type: pdf Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of networked individualism liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the triple revolution that has brought on this transformation the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises encouraged individuals to create and share content and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals. **Review Its easy to find rigorous science, and its easy to find topical stuff, but its not easy to find both at the same time! (Shankar Vedantam NPR Science) Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman have combined forces to become the new Marshall McLuhan! They draw on years of observation to weave the threads of the online and offline worlds into a deeply colored tapestry. We can see emergent social norms arising from their moving stories and insightful analyses. (Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer) Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman have woven three enormous changes in the ways we connect -- the spread of the internet, mobile tools, and social media -- into a single clarifying story of our present and future life in the 21st century. (Clay Shirky, author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody) Just as I would not let my child loose in traffic before I taught her to look both ways, if it were up to me, nobody would be let loose online until they read * Networked*. From the stories of real people whose lives have been changed, often for the better, by their interactions with contemporary online social networks, to the sociological and psychological theories that explain how life is really changing in the age of networked individualism, this is a must-read manual for life online today. (Howard Rheingold, critic and author of Net Smart, * Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, and Smart Mobs*) The Pew Internet Project has been part of Americas tech landscape for nearly as long as Google has, and five years longer than Facebook. Through that time it has earned respect and attention for its careful, systematic studies of the ways in which networked connectivity is changing some daily patterns of commercial, educational, and social interactions -- and the other long-standing human patterns it had reinforced. In Networked, the Projects leader, Lee Rainie, and his co-author Barry Wellman, build on that analysis to explain what we already know about technologys impact on our lives, what we can see coming, and where the biggest surprises and uncertainties still lie. (James Fallows, national correspondent and technology analyst for The Atlantic) We live in a network society. This book explains why, how, and what, on the basis of empirical evidence and rigorous analysis. This is a well-documented, well-thought, clearly written text that will become indispensable reading for professionals and students alike. (Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California) Networked illuminates how search, social networking, and the always on connectivity of mobile devices are combining to transform the social role of the Internet. This book -- by two leading authorities -- should be required reading for courses on the Internet, new media, and society. (William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) Deftly slicing through hyperbole about the communication, internet and mobile revolutions, the authors bring us face-to-face with the wellspring of modern life the networked individual. With flair, and a dash of wry humor, they provide keen insight about how this phenomenon affects all aspects of our lives. Anyone looking to gain deeper understanding about todays social world should read this book. (James E Katz, Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University) From their rich history of research on the interconnected evolution of social networks, the internet, and mobile phones, Rainie and Wellman have assembled a cornucopia of facts and implications about work, family, and life in the new era of networked individualism. When the next person asks me to talk about the network implications of social media, this is the book to which I will send them. (Ronald S. Burt, Professor of Sociology and Strategy, School of Business, University of Chicago author of Structural Holes The Social Structure of Competition) Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman write a remarkably approachable, nuanced, and clear-written treatise on how social networks, the Internet, and mobile technology are changing the way we live our daily lives. (Ate Poorthuis Journal of Regional Science) Networked provides an engaging and accessible overview of the ways in which social networks, the Internet, and mobile technologies have converged to affect everyday lives. (Vanessa P. Dennen Educational Technology) About the Author Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project and former managing editor of U.S. News and World Report. Barry Wellman is the S. D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, where he directs NetLab.

Author: Jadranka Skorin-Kapov File Type: pdf The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the pair not yet and no longer. Non-obvious parallels between different thinkers are drawn, and the argumentation is organized around philosophical figures relevant in the sequence desire excess pause (rupture, break) recuperation (surprise). The works of Levinas, Zizek, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Ricoeur are interpreted and positioned according to the proposed template of desire - excess - pause. The consideration of limit experiences involves authors fascinated by transgression, and the question of whether excess is immanent or transcendent. This discussion considers works by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Zizek, and Foucault. The analysis of surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard, and Seel. The provocative argument elaborated in this work is that surprise starts with indifference. Furthermore, the argument is that surprise begins where the concept reaches its ending, hence that the limit of speculative thinking at its ending is the limit of aesthetics at its beginning. The work of Hegel, Schelling and Jaspers are discussed in order to argue for the beginning of aesthetics there where knowledge ends. Philosophical thematic is contextualized via sections on artists such as Duchamp and Mondrian, and on some films, provoking interest of aestheticians working in art history and cultural studies departments. **ReviewThe books strength is in her [Skorin-Kapovs] imaginative reading of the history of philosophy. . . .Skorin-Kapovs book connects well with a history of aesthetics that deserves to be scrutinized and rewritten from new exciting angles. (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews) Jarred by endless war and jaded by decades of culture industry, one might think of surprise as a quaintly exotic or even extinct experience. Yet in proving the irrepressible character of what she calls the desire for the unexpected and its intrinsic tie to the Aha! experience, Jadranka Skorin-Kapov rekindles hope in a seemingly hopeless world. (Robert Harvey, Stony Brook University) The arguments, analyses, and insights presented in The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise are new and important. The strongest features of the work are its originality and thoroughness. Many works refer to surprise as a component of some other analysis, but no other work that I know of is devoted exclusively to the phenomenology of surprise. Surprise is an underappreciated category of the aesthetic that gets its due in this work (Richard Gilmore, Concordia College) About the Author Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is professor of operations research at Stony Brook University, with additional PhDs in philosophy and art history, and author of Darren Aronofskys Films and the Fragility of Hope.