Edward Liu

Mao Zedong: A Biography

Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, and political policies ar...

A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog Integrated Circuits [Paperback] [1996] (Author) Henry Chang, Edoardo Charbon, Umakanta Choudhury, Alper Demir, Eric Felt, Edward Liu, Enrico Malavasi, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Iasson Vassiliou

Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Extended Until June 1, 2015

On May 26, 2011, in the face of imminent expiration, three amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were extended until June 1, 2015. The three amendments were first enacted to expand the scope of federal intelligence-gathering authorities following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.T...

The Complete Collection of OZ (15 Books)

The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relate the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. All fourteen of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, in order and unabridged. Books ...

The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress

The federal role in cybersecurity has been a topic of discussion and debate for over a decade. Despite significant legislative efforts in the 112th and 113th Congress, no major legislation on this topic has been enacted since the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) in 2002, which add...

Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities and Recent Developments

Beginning in the summer of 2013, media reports of foreign intelligence activities conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) have been widely published. The reports have focused on two main NSA collection activities approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) established unde...

EMTALA: Access to Emergency Medical Care

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) ensures universal access to emergency medical care at all Medicare participating hospitals with emergency departments. Under EMTALA, any person who seeks emergency medical care at a covered facility, regardless of ability to pay, immigrat...

Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Congress passed the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), which granted the President the authority “to use all necessary and appropriate force against those ... [who] planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks” against the United St...

Finders, Keepers

A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog Integrated Circuits