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Duke Law School, 1868-1968: A Sketch
No full textThis paper constitutes the somewhat revised text of an address by the author at the Law Alumni Association Annual Luncheon Meeting and Duke Law School Centennial Observance, April 20, 1968
Perspectives on the Military Uses of AI
No full textPanel Moderator: Prof Gary Corn, Director of the Technology, Law & Security Program and adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law.
Panelist: Ms. Carla Crandall, Command National Security Law Counsel, U.S. Army Futures Command, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate.
Panelist: Dr. Brian Cox, Adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School; Graduate research fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University.
Panelist: Dr. Bill Boothby, Air Cdre, RAF (ret.), author, AI Warfare and the Law (2025
MIT’s Openness to Jewish Economists
No full textMIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this paper the author argues that the immediate postwar period saw a collapse – in some places slower, in some places faster – of the barriers to the hiring of Jewish faculty in American colleges and universities. And more than any other elite private or public university, particularly Ivy League universities, MIT welcomed Jewish economists
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Duke Law School, 1868-1968: A Sketch
No full textThis paper constitutes the somewhat revised text of an address by the author at the Law Alumni Association Annual Luncheon Meeting and Duke Law School Centennial Observance, April 20, 1968
Customer Centric Metrics for Duke Email, DNS lookup, and Wifi Login Services
No full textThis thesis introduces a number of customer-centric metrics to evaluate the experience of users of Duke’s information technology (IT) resources. Real-time monitoring and quantitative analysis are deployed for three critical Duke IT services: email, Domain Name Service (DNS) lookup, and wifi login. Although the Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Duke can track the functionality of these services, no good metrics presented a clear vision about the performance of these systems as perceived by actual end users in the real time. This thesis shows the methodology to obtain the customer centric metrics, results, and corresponding evaluations of these results. The measures proposed here were used both to quantify the users’ experience and to identify and help diagnose problems with these systems that are difficult to identify from inside the systems themselves. As an example, the author found that Duke Email system had a significant problem with delays in May 2016. The reason was that a long latency often occurred in one of the four stages of the email routing process. Once this issue was pointed out, Duke OIT solved this problem by adding six virtual machines and reduced the email delay time in the Duke Email Pre-Processing System by a half.Some of the highlights of the email-specific work include: (1) determining that the latency difference between emails containing Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and emails with only plain-text content is discovered as very small, (2) the diversity of network paths (emails sent from the Duke CoLab machine and emails sent from Amazon EC2) can affect the differences in email delivery latencies, (3) emails with attachments experienced much longer delivery latency than plain-text emails and emails containing URLs and the differences in the type and size of email attachments can affect the email delivery latencies, and (4) the pattern of the delivery latencies of emails with an attachment was changed by the update of Proofpoint Target Attack Protection (TAP)[1].To quantify in part users’ experiences in visiting widely dispersed parts of the Internet, the author developed a real-time DNS lookup latency monitor where sample domains include the Duke domain, another education domain, and external commercial domains in and outside the U.S.. Samples were taken from both the Duke CoLab virtual machine and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With the data from this latency monitor, the author discovered important information about the frequency of peaks in the latency on the network.Finally, the author began to explore monitoring the wifi login process, and specifically how long it takes a user to connect to the wifi network, by using a Raspberry Pi[2]. The experimental methodology was very similar to the login process which Duke users usually use on their personal computer (PC) and mobile devices. The author include both samples of (1) the latency of connecting wifi adapter to the access point (AP) and (2) the latency of being ready to use the Internet. The results that the author obtained till March 15 showed that the types of the wifi adapter and the signal strength of the connected AP are two possible factors that greatly affect the wifi login time.All the tools and data analysis techniques developed for monitoring these three IT processes are described in detail in the document.</p
Duke Williams Frolic
No full textDuke William corrects the mistreatment of sailors impressed into service.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/2248/thumbnail.jp
Breaking Barriers: Documenting the Trailblazing Black Students of Duke Divinity
No full textThis abstract describes an oral thesis documentary project aimed at honoring the stories and experiences of trailblazing Black students who integrated Duke Divinity School in 1962 and the development of the Office of Black Church Affairs in 1972. The author/producer, an Interim Director at the Office of Black Church Studies, combines her film production, music, and marketing expertise to produce a documentary highlighting over 50 years of Black student matriculation at Duke Divinity and their empowerment as leaders. The documentary features interviews with historically silenced voices, including the first Black men (1962) and women (1973) to attend Duke Divinity School, providing a lasting testament to the transformative power of education in the face of adversity. The author/producer explores the intersections of faith, leadership, and social change, providing a valuable resource for future research. Moreover, the author’s research aims to recover narratives of Black women who have actively challenged the status quo regarding who should be granted access to theological education and who should be allowed into the pulpit to preach the Gospel. This focus broadens our understanding of the complexities of the Black religious experience and contributes to ongoing discussions about the role of gender and race in shaping theological discourse. The story of Duke Divinity School’s decision to admit Black students in 1962 and establish the Black Church Studies program in 1972 bears witness to the transformative power of diversity and inclusion in theological education, serving as a reminder of the importance of embracing and celebrating diversity as a reflection of God’s love for all people.</p
More on the Ethics of E-Discovery: Predictive Coding and Other Forms of Computer-Assisted Review
No full textThis paper was circulated at a TAR conference hosted by the Bolch Judicial Institute (then the Center for Judicial Studies) in 2015. With the author\u27s permission, the paper has been archived in the scholarship repository.
This document does not represent the views of Duke Law School, Duke University, their faculties, or any other organization
Joseph C. Duke, Sergeant at Arms of the Senate.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27Rep. Joe Duke, and the Sergent at Arms [of the Senate]?\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1033/thumbnail.jp
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