Frank Field's Homepage

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress

Transitions

After many years of relying upon crude HTML for my homepage, I have been shamed into moving everything over to more modern markup. Of course, because of the structural desires of the the designers of these instruments, it seemed that I also ought to try to use the tools that are out there for taking advantage of the separation of content and design, so here we are.

At this point, what you see is the result of a quick cut-and-paste of the old page into the new structure. I cannot pretend that things will stay like this for very long. Even the CSS is only the best I could come up with on short notice and, while there were good reasons for picking this layout, I cannot say that I will live with it for very long. Of course, that's the point, I guess. If I do this transition right, it should be easy for me when I come up with a more workable layout that I like better. But, we know that there frequently can be a big gap between intent and achievement, so we'll see.

In the interim, if nothing else, it will give me something to distract me when I can't bear dealing with something else. <G>

Richard de Neufville's Thesis Manual
ESD.10 WWW site - the 2001 version
ESD.10 Block 2 - Fall 2001 - Intellectual property and the internet
1. Original layout (old, but not all integrated into new)
2. Assembled online resources: Intellectual Property and Other Online Controversies - a continuously updated heirarchical list of materials relating to the issues, technologies and public policies emerging on the digital frontier. Started out as a way to collect materials for a case on Napster for ESD.10, now a daily project - most recently added links.
3. An alternative way to find the most recent links is to look at the FurdLog, the new weblog that I'm trying to employ in parallel with the links. Eventually, I may even get brave enough to post something more than a bunch of links.
4. ESD "integrative" general exam questions for students in the Technology, Management & Policy (TMP) track
5. Some documents - (Troy Downen)
  1. Applications of Multiattribute Utility Analysis to Problems in Materials Selection; unpublished PhD thesis; Department of Materials Science & Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1985.
  2. Materials selection - maximizing overall utility; Metals and Materials; 1988.
6. Materials for the 3.56 variant of TPP21 - Fall, 1998
7. Dynamic Strategic Planning - MIT Course 1.146J, 2.192J, 3.56J, 13.62J, 16.861J, 22.821J, ESD.71.J, SWE.1146J
8. A Key To DSP Course Materials on the WWW (in need of revision, as DSP is now hosted on this server)
9. CostSkel Spreadsheet Writeup
10. Treeplan Slides for Oct 20 lecture (note, there are lots of screen captures in these slides, so the files are difficult to manage) - HTML/GIF (low res); ZIPped PDF (preferred); full PDF (13 megabytes!) I strongly suggest that you download the ZIPped version, as I *do* have to use this machine! If I find that things bog down too much, I will take the full size PDF off the machine.
11. Decision Tree Tools For TPP21, 1.146J, 3.56J, etc.
12. TPP123 Pages - Spring 1998
13. TPP123 - Spring 1999 Page
14. ESD.123 Page, Spring Term 2001
15. ESD.123 Page, Spring Term 2002
16. ESD.123 Page, Spring Term 2003
17. Current CMI Course Materials