Darpa was founded in 1958 as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (the "D" for defense was added in the 1970s), an expedient way to manage civil and military space programs in the chaotic days after the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite.
Through various expedients, Kesselring managed to deliver a greatly increased flow of supplies to Generaloberst Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya.
Any provider of such a "cloud-based IDE" tool just by the expedient of having to manage the scale of their operation has to impose limits on tool selection.
"This Trust, with its three trustees, has been established to manage the winnings in the most practical and expedient way possible so that we can achieve our strategic goal of helping those who can best benefit from these funds," the statement said.
The algorithms that manage internal operations strongly favor doing whatever is the most expedient, efficient and effective, even if that means excluding some people from information or services, or leaving the door open to amplifying societal biases.
And all bow before the memory of the one among us who believed most ardently in the power of ideas and who, indeed, made of his own ideas a force that, more than once, undermined our certitudes, exposed facile consolations and expedient accommodations, and, yes, managed to change, a bit, the order of things.
There were no systems in place to manage thousands of homeless people in the long term and move them to safety from unprovisioned and uninhabitable expedient shelters.
But VW officials and Mr Piëch claim that the conflict can be managed by the simple expedient of his leaving the room when commercially sensitive issues between Porsche and VW are discussed.
Here's one thing we do know: Representative Edward Markey, a Democrat of Massachusetts, managed by the simple expedient of writing a letter to pry from BP a live feed of the oil gushing from the leak 5,000 feet below the surface.
