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| William E. Mihalo is a senior high-performance computing systems engineer with the Academic and Research Technologies group within Northwestern University's Information Technologies division. He graduated with a doctorate in sociology from Bowling Green State University in the late 1970s. His specialties were social organization and demography. His computer programming background started by taking an elective programming course as an undergraduate, and continued with additional programming classes as a graduate student. In 1974, he started work on his doctorate and provided programming support for the Professional Development Project at Bowling Green State University. He joined Indiana University Northwest (IUN) in 1977 as a visiting assistant professor of sociology. In 1978, he became a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology at IUN. During this time, he developed skills using IBM and CDC mainframes and also using the newly introduced Apple II computer. After teaching sociology courses for about five years, he realized that supporting large, complex computer clusters was much easier than trying to understand the complexities associated with human societies. He joined Vogelback Computing Center at Northwestern University in 1981, and specialized in providing support for statistical analysis. He also worked on a number of computer graphics projects and helped users debug software programs. He joined Purdue University Calumet in 1985 and provided the background information that was obtained from the user community to justify the purchase of Purdue Calumet's VAX computer cluster in 1986. In 1987, he joined Loyola University Medical Center where he started as a manager of academic computing and spent 16 years as a computer systems manager for radiation oncology. At Loyola, he specialized in providing support for highly available computing clusters running within a Windows and Unix environment. He also introduced the radiation oncology department to a storage area network and provided support for high-performance Unix workstations that did 3D treatment planning for radiation oncology patients. He also provided software support for the computers associated with the Varian 23 EX linear accelerators that were located at Loyola University Medical Center and Hines Veterans Administration Hospital. In 2006, he joined the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory as a systems administrator. At the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, he provided support for the National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource (NMPDR), Globusonline, Globus toolkit, TeraGrid, and the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC) projects. Within this environment, he specialized in supporting computer clusters, grid computing, grid computing software, and working within a number of cloud environments. He returned to Northwestern University in May 2011. He has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 1983, specializing in reviews on the social effects of computing, computer graphics, privacy, and systems administration. |
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The institutional approach for modeling the evolution of human societies Powers S. Artificial Life 24(1): 10-28, 2018. Type: Article
Powers defines institutions as “political game forms that generate the rules of a group’s economic interactions.” He draws heavily from Leonid Hurwicz’s game theory in developing a model of insti...
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The institutional approach for modeling the evolution of human societies Powers S. Artificial Life 24(1): 10-28, 2018. Type: Article
Powers defines institutions as “political game forms that generate the rules of a group’s economic interactions.” He draws heavily from Leonid Hurwicz’s game theory in developing a model of insti...
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Sams teach yourself R in 24 hours Nicholls A., Pugh R., Gott A., Sams, Carmel, IN, 2016. 624 pp. Type: Book (978-0-672338-48-9)
Sams teach yourself R in 24 hours is an operating system (OS)-agnostic book. R and the recommended graphical user interface, RStudio, can be run on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers....
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Should you upload or ship big data to the cloud? Date S. Queue 14(2): 111-135, 2016. Type: Article
Sachin Date describes a problem that persists for many people who have limited access to a high-speed Internet connection....
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Should you upload or ship big data to the cloud? Date S. Queue 14(2): 111-135, 2016. Type: Article
Sachin Date describes a problem that persists for many people who have limited access to a high-speed Internet connection....
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Reading the comments: likers, haters, and manipulators at the bottom of the web Reagle J., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2015. 240 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262028-93-6)
In this small book, the author covers the topic of Internet comments with many anecdotes and examples. The book has its own vocabulary. Two important words from this vocabulary are “fakery” and “sock puppe...
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Learning to program using Python (2nd ed.) Jackson C., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. 228 pp. Type: Book (978-1-499186-49-9)
Because this book is recommended on the Python.org website, it will attract a lot of new Python programmers. It begins in chapter 4 with a discussion of the Python interpreter. Many of the exercises can be entered directly into the Pyt...
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The elements of computing style: 200+ tips for busy knowledge workers Spinellis D., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, SC, 2014. 166 pp. Type: Book (978-1-500972-09-7)
This is an interesting book. A cursory examination suggests it is for novice computer users, but a closer look reveals otherwise....
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Registration methods for pulmonary image analysis: integration of morphological and physiological knowledge Schmidt-Richberg A., Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2014. 192 pp. Type: Book (978-3-658016-61-6)
Irradiating a moving tumor has been one of the ultimate goals of radiation oncology. Older forms of radiation oncology could not account for the motion associated with an organ containing a tumor. Radiation beams were targeted at a tum...
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Secret history: the story of cryptology Bauer C., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2013. 620 pp. Type: Book (978-1-466561-86-1), Reviews: (2 of 2)
This is a fascinating book. Bauer begins with a brief discussion of ancient ciphers and then proceeds into chapter 2--a 50-page discussion on monalphabetic substitution ciphers (MASCs). Chapters 2 through 9 cover cryptography ...
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