Social science at 190 MPH on NASCAR's biggest superspeedways

Ronfeldt, David

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“…In particular, car racing is largely understudied. While conversations about car racing have been analyzed in CA (Sacks, : I: 146, 175ff, 296, 321ff, 392, 400) and car racing and particularly street car racing has been studied within a broader interest in popular and youth culture and counter‐culture, as well as gender and masculinity (Best, ), studies about how people engage in car racing and the praxeological specificities of race car driving remain very rare (but see the ethnographies by Huler, and Ronfeldt, ).…”

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Driving instruction at high speed on a race circuit: Issues in action formation and sequence organization

Mondada

2018

Int J App Linguistics

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The paper deals with instructions in a specific instructional setting, in which a driver learns to drive on a race circuit, assisted by a coach helping him to improve his performance and speed. This setting opens up both original issues for the study of learning to drive a car and general issues concerning the praxeological, multimodal, and sequential analysis of instructions in an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EMCA) perspective. On the basis of a systematic analysis of the coach's instructions and the driver's responses, the paper reveals the situated methodic production and understanding of these instructions and their organization in sequences and series of sequences. Training to drive at high speed appears as a perspicuous setting for investigating the ecology and the indexicality of instructed action, its temporal features, and the way these feature affect sequentiality—in particular action formation and sequence organization.

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Driving instruction at high speed on a race circuit: Issues in action formation and sequence organization

Mondada

2018

Int J App Linguistics

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“…Little analytic attention has been given to swarming, 15 which is quite different from traditional mass-and maneuveroriented approaches to conflict. Yet swarming may become the key mode of conflict in the information age Ronfeldt, 2000, andEdwards, 2000), and the cutting edge for this possibility is found among netwar protagonists.…”

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Networks and netwars: the future of terror, crime, and militancy

2002

Choice Reviews Online

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To Dick O'Neill, for his stalwart support and keen eye PREFACEThe fight for the future makes daily headlines. Its battles are not between the armies of leading states, nor are its weapons the large, expensive tanks, planes, and fleets of regular armed forces. Rather, the combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia and Mexico, and militant anarchists like the Black Bloc that ran amok during the Battle of Seattle. Other protagonists are civil-society activists fighting for democracy and human rights-from Burma to the Balkans. What all have in common is that they operate in small, dispersed units that can deploy nimbly-anywhere, anytime. They know how to penetrate and disrupt, as well as elude and evade. All feature network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. And, from the Intifadah to the drug war, they are proving very hard to beat; some may actually be winning. This is the story we tell.This book also provides a further step in the elaboration of our ideas about how and why the information revolution is affecting the whole spectrum of conflict. Our notion of cyberwar (1993) focused on the military domain, and our first study of netwar 1 (1996) on irregular modes of conflict, including terror, crime, and militant social activism. 2 The implications of these concepts for organization, doctrine, and technology across the spectrum of conflict were further elaborat-L Our netwar concept predates, and should not be confused with, the U.S. military's "network warfare simulation system" (NETWARS). 2 For full citations of these and our other studies, please see the bibliographies for Chapters One and Ten.vi Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy ed in our book, In Athena 's Camp (1997). More recently, we noted that many activists who practice netwar are helping to create a new approach to strategy and diplomacy that we call noopolitik (1999). Next, we expanded on our idea that swarming (2000) will emerge as a 21st-century doctrine that will encompass and enliven both cyberwar and netwar. Here, we offer new analysis about netwar. The analysis includes case studies about terrorists, criminals, and gangs; social netwars in Burma, Mexico, and Seattle; and closing chapters on some of the technological, organizational, and doctrinal dynamics of netwar.U.S. policymakers and strategists will be interested in this book. It should also interest analysts in academia and research institutes concerned with how the information revolution is altering the nature of conflict.

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“…An analogy to the slipstream paradigm (and the source of its name) is "slipstreaming" in stock-car racing (e.g., NASCAR) [23]. At speeds in excess of 190 m.p.h., high air pressure forms at the front of a race car and a partial vacuum forms behind it.…”

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Slipstream processors

Sundaramoorthy

Purser

2000

SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News

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Processors execute the full dynamic instruction stream to arrive at the final output of a program, yet there exist shorter instruction streams that produce the same overall effect. We propose creating a shorter but otherwise equivalent version of the original program by removing ineffectual computation and computation related to highly-predictable control flow. The shortened program is run concurrently with the full program on a chip multiprocessor or simultaneous multithreaded processor, with two key advantages:1) Improved single-program performance. The shorter program speculatively runs ahead of the full program and supplies the full program with control and data flow outcomes. The full program executes efficiently due to the communicated outcomes, at the same time validating the speculative, shorter program. The two programs combined run faster than the original program alone. Detailed simulations of an example implementation show an average improvement of 7% for the SPEC95 integer benchmarks.2) Fault tolerance. The shorter program is a subset of the full program and this partial-redundancy is transparently leveraged for detecting and recovering from transient hardware faults.An analogy to the slipstream paradigm (and the source of its name) is "slipstreaming" in stock-car racing (e.g., NASCAR) [23]. At speeds in excess of 190 m.p.h., high air pressure forms at the front of a race car and a partial vacuum forms behind it. This creates drag and limits the car's top speed. A second car can position itself close behind the first (a process called slipstreaming or drafting). This fills the vacuum behind the lead car, reducing its drag. And the trailing car now has less wind resistance in front (and by some

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Social science at 190 MPH on NASCAR's biggest superspeedways

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Driving instruction at high speed on a race circuit: Issues in action formation and sequence organization

Driving instruction at high speed on a race circuit: Issues in action formation and sequence organization

Networks and netwars: the future of terror, crime, and militancy

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