International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / This paper will present a selected overview of calendars and calendar development from antiquity to the current Gregorian calendar. The current hot topics of the GPS 1999 Rollover and the Year 2000 Millennium Rollover will be explained.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 23-26, 2000 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / This paper discusses the successful passage past the Year 2000 (Y2K) Rollover and GPS 1999 (Week Number Roll Over) WNRO. The reasons the glitches seen at those events were relatively minor and the lessons learned to help enter the Third Millennium with careful optimism are reviewed.

<p>Detta arbete berör hur företag har arbetat med att anpassa sina verksamheter till att klara millenniumskiftet utan att problem uppstår. Jag har genomfört undersökningen genom att intervjua fem respondenter från företag som jag anser vara intressanta i sammanhanget.</p><p>Jag har i undersökningen fokuserat på hur företagen har upprättat sina projektplaner för projekten av det här slaget. Som utgångspunkt för det här har jag använt mig utav ett förslag till projektplan som 2000-delegationen har tagit fram och som innefattar åtta olika faser som de anser vara värdefulla vid ett sådant här projekt.</p><p>De slutsatser som jag har kommit fram till är att de medverkande företagen i undersökningen har använt sig av väl fungerande projektplaner, även om dessa inte är lika omfattande och kompletta som 2000-delegationens förslag. Min bedömning är att företagen generellt sett ligger bra till tidsmässigt och jag anser att de har goda förutsättningar för att klara millenniumskiftets komplikationer.</p>

Detta arbete berör hur företag har arbetat med att anpassa sina verksamheter till att klara millenniumskiftet utan att problem uppstår. Jag har genomfört undersökningen genom att intervjua fem respondenter från företag som jag anser vara intressanta i sammanhanget. Jag har i undersökningen fokuserat på hur företagen har upprättat sina projektplaner för projekten av det här slaget. Som utgångspunkt för det här har jag använt mig utav ett förslag till projektplan som 2000-delegationen har tagit fram och som innefattar åtta olika faser som de anser vara värdefulla vid ett sådant här projekt. De slutsatser som jag har kommit fram till är att de medverkande företagen i undersökningen har använt sig av väl fungerande projektplaner, även om dessa inte är lika omfattande och kompletta som 2000-delegationens förslag. Min bedömning är att företagen generellt sett ligger bra till tidsmässigt och jag anser att de har goda förutsättningar för att klara millenniumskiftets komplikationer.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / This paper describes the current internationally recognized atomic time scales of International Atomic Time (TAI), Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and Global Positioning System (GPS) Time as well as solar based Universal Time. The concept of Leap Seconds and the differences between the time scales are discussed. A brief history of the international agreements that created organizations responsible for maintaining these time scales is provided. A brief review of the GPS 1999 (Week Number Roll Over) WNRO with its potential GPS user problems is provided. Prudent personal precautions are proposed for the Year 2000 (Y2K) Rollover.

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem presented a fortuitous opportunity to explore the relationship between estimated costs of software projects and five cost influence dimensions described by the Year 2000 Enterprise Cost Model (Kappelman, et al., 1998) -- organization, problem, solution, resources, and stage of completion. This research was a field study survey of (Y2K) project managers in industry, government, and education and part of a joint project that began in 1996 between the University of North Texas and the Y2K Working Group of the Society for Information Management (SIM). Evidence was found to support relationships between estimated costs and organization, problem, resources, and project stage but not for the solution dimension. Project stage appears to moderate the relationships for organization, particularly IS practices, and resources. A history of superior IS practices appears to mean lower estimated costs, especially for projects in larger IS organizations. Acquiring resources, especially external skills, appears to increase costs. Moreover, projects apparently have many individual differences, many related to size and to project stage, and their influences on costs appear to be at the sub-dimension or even the individual variable level. A Revised Year 2000 Enterprise Model is presented incorporating this granularity. Two primary conclusions can be drawn from this research: (1) large software projects are very complex and thus cost estimating is also; and (2) the devil of cost estimating is in the details of knowing which of the many possible variables are the important ones for each particular enterprise and project. This points to the importance of organizations keeping software project metrics and the historical calibration of cost-estimating practices. Project managers must understand the relevant details and their interaction and importance in order to successfully develop a cost estimate for a particular project, even when rational cost models are used. This research also indicates that software cost estimating has political as well as rational influences at play.

Jahresückblick 1998 des URZ Was bringt uns das Jahr 2000? HSRP im Campusnetz (neue Routingstrategien) Dienste des URZ - LiveRPM

In this study of intercultural communication, I investigate the multi-faceted meaning of the expression " cultural fit " in the sense that it is used by recruiters when shortlisting Indian information technologists to fill skills shortages for the Y2K project in Australia. The data is in the form of ten videotaped interviews in Bangalore and the recruiter commentary on those tapes in Melbourne. A crucial decision to be made by recruiters in any shortlisting process is " How will the candidate fit into the workplace?" This question becomes more problematical when applied to overseas-trained professionals. I take a critical approach, drawing principally on the research traditions of linguistics where studies of intercultural communication and workplace interaction intersect, employing chiefly the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics and the more abstract notions of Bourdieu. A bridge between these different discourse approaches is provided by Sarangi & Roberts < 1999 < who show the connection between the larger institutional order and interactional routines, through an elaboration of frontstage talk and backstage talk following Goffman < 1959 < . An analysis of the interviews < frontstage talk < reveals "cultural fit" to involve a knowledge of institutional talk, in particular, directness. The recruiter commentary < backstage talk < draws attention to issues of intelligibility, body language, technical expertise and workplace values. the study shows that Indian Information Technologists have "partial fit" in that they possess technical fit but do not demonstrate, or lack the opportunity to demonstrate in the interview, Australian workplace values such as small talk, humour and informality. The recruiter judgments were fleeting and apart from checking for intelligibility, were made on the basis of candidates' body language thus highlighting its importance and its relative absence from the discourse approaches mentioned above. This study shows clearly that there is room for more communicative flexibility on the part of all the stakeholders.

Jahresückblick 1998 des URZ Was bringt uns das Jahr 2000? HSRP im Campusnetz (neue Routingstrategien) Dienste des URZ - LiveRPM