Research into demand for counselling/therapeutic provision in a group of primary schools

A questionnaire survey was conducted among a group of primary schools in south‐east England to try to establish what level of demand there would be for a counselling/educational therapy service, and whether headteachers would be prepared to allocate the required funding. The research shows that there is a significant number of children who could benefit from such a service and that there is some willingness to make funds available for this although, not surprisingly, there was a good deal of reservation about how much money could be allocated.     

信息安全的经济学(之二)

信息安全的经济学近来已经成为一门蓬勃发展的学科。由于分布式系统通常是由那些属于不同利益主体的计算机构成,我们发现在实现可靠性的过程中,激励机制变得和纯技术设计一样重要。这一学科领域不仅为那些传统的安全课题提供了洞见,而且还为更宽泛的领域中的研究难题拓展了思路,诸如:P2P系统设计,程序员和测试员的最优比例,隐私为何不断被侵蚀,以及数字版权管理等问题。本刊上期和本期推荐剑桥大学计算机实验室的Ross Anderson和Tyler Moore在2006年10月27日的《科学》杂志上刊发的《信息安全的经济学(The Economics of Information Security)》一文,介绍这一学科的研究和发展,以资借鉴。