To date, popular discussions of utility computing have rarely progressed beyond a recitation of IT vendors' marketing slogans, laden with opaque terms like "autonomic systems," "server virtualization" and "service-oriented architecture".1 Rather than illuminate the future, such gobbledygook has only obscured it.
A panel discussion on "Utilities of the Future" featured Peter Fox-Penner, left, director of Boston University's Institute for Sustainable Energy and chief strategy officer of Energy Impact Partners, and Ralph Izzo, center, CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group.
She depicted the report as containing a scientific discussion of sport utility safety rather than an admission of defects or negligence in design.
Debbie Zemke, a longtime friend of Mr. Ford who is now Ford Motor's director of corporate governance, drafted the report with the forthright discussion of sport utility vehicles' drawbacks.
The case allows for discussion of the utility of a "czar" position, and can support discussion of the ways in which political situations help or hinder these kinds of appointees.
Professor Scott also describes the intellectual influences that led her, more than twenty years ago, to write the now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical analysis". The conversation continues with a discussion of the utility of critical history for elucidating contemporary policy debates.
Topics covered in this chapter include a brief overview of the Investigational New Drug Application (IND) regulations as they apply to preventive vaccines, an overview of the information to be included in the IND submission, and a discussion of the utility of the pre-IND meeting.
See Briggs (2014) for more discussion of expected utility.
Before concluding this discussion of measuring utility, two related limitations regarding the information such measures convey should be mentioned.
