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Oral history interview with Donald W. Davies
No full textTranscript, 34 pp.Davies begins by discussing his entry into computing through work during World War II, and mentions his involvement with the Pilot ACE and ACE computer projects of the 1940s and 1950s before focusing on his work at the National Physical Laboratories Computer Science Division. Davies discusses at length the management of the division and its activities, especially related to data transmission systems.Davies, Donald Watts. (1986). Oral history interview with Donald W. Davies. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107241
Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
No full textIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
Media release
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Darwin's Trade Development Zone - its place in Australia's future
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Group of people
No full textSeated L to R: Vera Haren (nee Watts ), Alice Mona Watts (nee Finniss) nursing her first grandson John Watts, Mona Watts ("Bubby")
Standing L to R: Kitty Watts (nee Dunn), Donald John Fairfax Watts, Norman Lynn Baker, Muriel Baker (nee Watts).Watts, James Barclay.Alice Mona Watts is my grandmother and is the niece of Boyle Travers Finniss, a family with close ties to the settlement of Darwin. Alice married Douglas Crombie Watts who was Mayor of Darwin for five terms between 1917 and 1930.
Norm and Muriel Baker are my parents. Muriel was born in Darwin in 1917 and passed away this year (2014), aged 97. I took her ashes back to Darwin and had them interred into her mother's grave site in Gardens Road cemetery, Grave 1112.
Information provided by Michael Baker, 6 August 2014
Author and literary critic Donald Shaw
No full textAuthor and literary critic Donald Shaw, b&w.https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon_photo_morgue/1399/thumbnail.jp
Donald Elder papers
No full textDonald Elder (1913-1965) was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co., which published the English translation of José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot in Katherine Anne Porter's name. He was also the author of Ring Lardner, A Biography. The collection consists of correspondence between him and Porter. Important subjects include writers and writing and Porter's personal interests and opinions, as well as The Itching Parrot and Ship of Fools
"Letter with No Address" - Poem by Donald Hall
No full textDonald Hall reads his poem "Letter with No Address," an epistolary poem written for his late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Hall is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and the author of 16 books of poetry, as well as fiction.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85036/1/letterwithnoaddress_donalhall.mp
A review of Donald A. Schön's, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
No full textDonald Schön’s book, first published in 1983, has inspired generations of practitioners and educators ever since, including those within social work. We have chosen to introduce this seminal work with a review written by Emslie and Watts from RMIT University in which they offer an excellent summary of Schön’s ideas and of the contribution that he has made to professional education, theory and practice over the last 50 years or so. The Further Reading below contains some applications of Schön’s ideas in the real-world setting of social work practice today
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
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