Consensus is a problem in distributed computing that is of singular importance. It is in some senses an abstraction of the problem of synchronization of distributed resources, and it suffices to demonstrate a protocol that achieves consensus--or to...

Value produced by a group of experts or referee laboratories using the best possible methods. It is an estimate of the true...

An agreement among a group of...

Consensus is the absence of leadership....

Consensus has two common meanings. One is a general agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision making and follow-up action. The other is as a theory and practice of getting such...

Innovations in environmental policymaking deserve clear-eyed assessments to ensure that they do not drain resources from more effective approaches, provide only illusory gains, or otherwise fail to meet society's needs. In their assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Common Sense Initiative...

My wife and I last year completed a 5,000-mile road trip to Washington and hack. A friend we visited in Seattle is a librarian in that city's system. While we were there, she alerted us to the upcoming grand opening of the brand-new $165...

Climate Change: Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for ... an ice age? An old Washington Post story indicates he did.On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice...

Sacramento Kings reserve center Justin Williams and his girlfriend had consensual sex with the woman who is accusing him of sexual assault, his attorney said Saturday."In no way, shape or form did anything wrong happen," William Portanova said in a telephone interview. "Unequivocally, 100 percent,...