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Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Sarah L. Kieweg had her own nice surprise when the University of Central Florida contacted her. She understood quite a bit about her father's pioneering work on artificial intelligence in the 1990s. Still, in 2006, eight years after he died of a heart attack, at age 50, the call from the university came out of the blue: some of James R. Driscoll's…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, Artificial Intelligence, College Faculty
Hoffman, Sharon C. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this historical review was to trace the credible leadership construct of trustworthiness, integrity, honesty, and consistency in leadership theory development during the last 100 years in the United States. Theory focus, key U.S. pivotal events, and follower importance influenced the construct's occurrence in leadership theory. …
Descriptors: Leadership, Social Theories, United States History, Personality Traits
Bronfenbrenner, Urie, Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2004
To a greater extent than any other species, human beings create the environments that, in turn, shape their own development. This book endeavors to demonstrate that human beings can also develop those environments to optimize their most constructive genetic potentials. What makes human beings human, therefore, is both the potential to shape their…
Descriptors: Heredity, Social Status, Psychologists, Systems Approach