The KPI-Based Reputation Policy Language

Slim Trabelsi SAP Research Mougins, France slim.trabelsi@sap.com Luca Boasso Politecnico Di Torino Torino, Italy luca.boasso@studenti.polito.it Abstract—Trust policy languages are implemented to express the trust requirements of the users. These requirements are represented by a set of rules specifying the necessary conditions that should be fulfilled by an entity in order to gain the trust of … Read more

The stellarator renaissance

iter newsline Apr 15 2011 W 7-X aims at producing 30 minute pulses, a duration that is limited only by the cooling power of the installation. © Anja Richter-Ullmann Stellarators are like a bright kid who never got a first chance. The device that astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer invented in 1952 is at the origin of … Read more

The Trouble with Google as Truthsayer

By Ron Arnold Amazon’s Ron Arnold Page March 25, 2015 Google, Inc., with its $385 billion share value, has bumped Exxon to become America’s No. 2 ranking company in market capitalization. That may not be a good thing. A February article in New Scientist announced, Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links, … Read more

India to set up its own mini N-fusion reactor

Times of India Prashant Rupera,TNN | Apr 1, 2015 VADODARA: Nuclear energy production in India is set to get a major boost with the department of atomic energy (DAE) giving nod to set up the country’s own thermo-nuclear fusion reactor. India is presently one of the seven partner countries in world’s biggest energy research project … Read more

Anne White accepts the fusion challenge

MIT News Peter Dunn | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering | March 23, 2015 Anne White, the Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Photo: Susan Young Engineering professor undertakes innovative research in reactor design while working toward the realization of nuclear fusion. Anne White has always relished challenges. As … Read more

On the power and size of tokamak fusion pilot plants and reactors

A.E. Costley, J. Hugill and P.F. Buxton © 2015 IAEA, Vienna Received 14 July 2014, accepted for publication 14 November 2015 Published 28 January 2015 Contents Abstract Introduction System code Dependence of Qfus on plasma and device parameters Impact of beta-independent scaling Implications for the design of pilot plants and reactors Summary and conclusions Abstract … Read more

Nuclear fusion, the ultimate clean energy

theForeigner Sunday, 22nd March, 2015 Fusion energy has been a dream for 60 years, but the future looks promising. Nuclear fusion is the joining of two or more atomic nuclei to form a new, distinct nucleus and in the process give off a very significant amount of energy. The energy given off does not contain … Read more

Polywell Nuclear Fusion, Boston

BostonCommons.net When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become “too cheap to meter,” he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom-splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today. [1] I think that nuclear fission plant should be … Read more

The Big Bang Creation: God or the Laws of Nature

The Big Bang Creation: God or the Laws of Nature

geraldschroeder.com Stephen Hawking, in his recent book, The Grand Design, breaks the news, bitter to some, that God was not needed to create the universe. Whether God was needed or necessary to facilitate the creation the universe is a question very different from was it God that created the universe. The latter relates to verifying … Read more

Letter from Congressman Attacking Climate Scientists Generates Heated Responses

heartland.org March 3, 2015 H. STERLING BURNETT H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, most… (read full bio) Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona and ranking member of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, sent a letter to seven university presidents demanding … Read more