Monthly Archives: June 2007

A Lesson

I mentioned a lecture on Emerging Technologies in MIT Courseware earlier. Here is a slide titled “Final Lesson”, part of the summation. This calls for a new kind of training. Teaching people the ability to adopt and use new technologies

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Emerging Technologies Lecture

I was searching for some  course ware  for Learning Point. The first natural place to visit was MIT OCW (Open Course Ware). Looking through some courses, I found this presentation on Emerging Technologies.  It contains a few slides on Predictions

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Problems Inspire Creativity

I think problems inspire creativity. Some times the creativity results in art. This is the case with Santhosh, a student at BMA India, one of the most impressive institutions, I have come across. They have a great facility, with state

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Innovation – New York’s Antipoverty Initiative

 This is probably one of the best stories I heard in a while.  We are in Bangalore where I am giving some talks and found this piece of news in a local newspaper. The school incentive program is part of

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Link As a Unit of Data

From Danny’s Evolving the Link: Critics also pointed to the limitations of links that pointed in only one direction and were untyped. The Web’s success has to a large extent overridden these criticisms without really proving them wrong. Ironically, it

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Three Steps to Efficieny

I was watching the video of Seven Habits of Highly Effective Text Editing. I am sucker for anything titled Seven Habits.  I use Vim (Vi improved). Vi was the first editor I started with on Unix and since there were

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KML Moving Closer to a Standard

This is one area where we can definitely benefit from a standard representation. The Open Geospatial Consortium has dubbed Google’s Keyhole Markup Language – the language used for developing Google Earth – a best practice and is working with Google

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Joel “Software – A Game of Inches”

From Joel’s Game of Inches Commercial software—the kind you sell to other people—is a game of inches. Every day you make a tiny bit of progress. You make one thing just a smidgen better. You make the alarm clock default

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Brand is a Cause – a Guiding Light

From Jonathan Schwartz’s blog: The saying goes, “a brand is a promise.” On a personal level, I’ve always felt that statement was incomplete. A promise is the lowest common denominator of a brand – it’s what people expect. Think of

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Thirteen Dwarfs – Computational Kernels of Future Applications

For people in the multi-core, high performance computing, this may be old hat. But I stumbled upon this when I was catching up with LTU Blog after a long time. This part of the paper caught my attention The point

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