Thumbs on the Wheel

Biographical

Click here for a biography of Avi Silberschatz and the transcript of a conversation with him, too.

Avi Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale.

Cultural

In a Web site, "Small Dead Animals: the Roadkill Diaries, several readers comment upon the solutions advocated in "Thumbs on the Wheel." Who typically reads sites like this one? Why do people post comments on a site like this?

The authors refer to this Washington Post article in their introduction. The article details Obama's ban on texting while driving for federal employees.

The Governors Highway Safety Association provides up-to-date information on regulations pertaining to distracted driving.

The FCC's Distracted Driving Information Clearinghouse provides links to information, education, and technological solutions to the distracted driving issue.

This review of Thomas Locker's The Boy Who Held Back the Sea provides a context for the expression the authors use in their conclusion.

Bibliographical

If you are a fan of blogs, or even it you are not, you may wish to read entries from Shiffrin and Silberschatz's blog in the Huffington Post. You may also wish to visit another Silberschatz blog.

Mark Shiffrin wrote an opinion piece for the New Haven Register on hospice care.

Read what Shiffrin and Silberschatz have to say about "Regulating the business of education."

The pair have also written about cyber-vulnerability.

Is virtual surveillance a viable option in slaughterhouses? Here is what Shiffrin and Silberschatz have to say on the subject.