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I’m excited to be presenting at the Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Software and IT Cost Forum in September. You can register for my talk… Read More »Joint Software and IT Cost Forum

My Ph.D. advisor, Peter Slater, and two of his colleagues published a technical book in 1998. They had 1,000 pages of material, so it appeared… Read More »Publishing A Book: On Which Hunts and Likelihoods

There are ten commandments in the Old Testament and ten amendments in the U.S. Bill of Rights. Eight of the ten are negative, in the… Read More »The Ten Commandments of Project Risk Management

Tennessee and Massachusetts have similar populations. Massachusetts has 6.9 million residents and Tennessee has 6.8 million. They are ranked 15th and 16th, respectively, in population… Read More »Tennessee and Massachusetts – A Case Study in COVID-19 Death Rates

I grew up in Alabama. It always seemed to be the case that we were ranked 48th or 49th out of the 50 states in… Read More »Thank God for Mississippi

My cat Elvis really enjoyed the recent Space and Missile Defense virtual symposium.

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” – Otto von Bismark In my last post,… Read More »A Deadly July – COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the U.S.

Claims are circulating that although COVID cases have increased across much of the southeast this Summer that it is due to increased testing. Indeed, among… Read More »COVID in the Southeast During July

In his excellent book on the importance of understanding uncertainty titled The Flaw of Averages, Sam Savage introduces the key notion that “plans based on… Read More »The Flaw of Averages and ICU Capacity