Director’s Corner 28 May 2009 Nick Walker What’s in a word? Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. During the day-to-day activities of Global Design Effort Project Management, I find myself using certain nouns more frequently than others. Recently, the word review has featured prominently in […]
Integrating ideas at Dubna
Director’s Corner 26 June 2008 Ewan Paterson Integrating ideas at Dubna Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner by Ewan Paterson, Integration Specialist and Member of the GDE Executive Committee. At the recent Conventional Facilities and Siting Workshop in Dubna, there were four focus groups: Shallow Site, Infrastructure, Siting and Accelerator Systems. However before the meetings […]
Integrating the Parts
Director’s Corner 23 March 2006 Barry Barish Integrating the Parts At the GDE meeting in Frascati last December, we approved the ILC Baseline and announced a new organizational structure for developing a Reference Design and Cost. In my short talk during the closeout discussion session, I reflected on what I considered some important remaining problems […]