Think about running your business without computers, and you'll realize how important they are to your bottom line. Whether you use a database to track sales, an inventory system that monitors stock ...

A major shift has occurred in security technology development, and nothing in the security industry’s history to date has prepared practitioners to deal with it. Approaching today’s and tomorrow’s ...

This workshop was in some respects a follow-up to a 2007 National Research Council Workshop on Materials State Awareness (MSA). Whereas the first workshop dealt with themes such as how to define MSA ...

Life cycle analysis or assessments (LCAs) are a quintessential tool for power and utility industry professionals and tradespeople. They determine the environmental and financial value of new ...

The sequence of events in the development of an information system (application), which requires mutual effort on the part of both the user and technical staff. See agile software development and ...