Monthly Archives: June 2009

InnovationLog: A Few Articles Worth Reading

I post some of these links as Tweets. However, a blog gives you a bit more space to explain why these posts/articles are worth a read. The first is an article from Harvard Business Review about innovations at Microsoft Research

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LinkLog: Basic Research

Some good reasons for doing basic research even in hard economic times from Micorosft Research: Many people across industry, and even some in academia, misunderstand the reasons for investing in long-term basic research.  Too often people equate basic research with

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InfoStream: Multi-core

How SonicWall Scaled Multicore Barriers How SonicWall Scaled Multicore Barriers How multicore processors can provide a big win Parallel Processing and Computer-Aided Manufacturing Parallel Processing and Computer-Aided Manufacturing Software that helps engineers in the manufacturing or prototyping of product components

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LinkLog: Seven Principles of Knowledge

From Cognitive Edge: Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted. We only know what we know when we need to know it. In the context of real need few people will withhold their knowledge. Everything is fragmented. Tolerated

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LinkLog: Connective Intelligence

I need to thank Bill Daul for bringing this story to our attention. It is about an amazing “visual meditation” about Iran Election. This beautiful article interleaves the science of social networks and the power of visualization with a very

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Twitter Usage Patterns: A Different one from Iran

Trying to keep up with #iranelection on Twitter, is like trying to drink from a firehose. Twitter,  Facebook, twitpics, flickr and youtube have become the new citizen media to get information from a region that is not easily accessible to

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Internet of Things

About 3 or 4 years ago, I cam across an Intel presentation on the web,  which predicted the spread of internet of things. Today,  I came across a fascinating  document that describes an European Initiative for Internet of Things. One

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Oh Mighty Search Engines, Please Let Me Tell You What I Want

I have been watching Bing, Wolfram Alpha and Google’s Snippets. All of these (and some others) advance search and provide lots of cool features. Their job is challenging since they are trying to guess what I want when I just

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SLA2009: The Expected and the UnExpected

When I attend a conference, I look forward to three things: To learn from peers and experts To network with people who share similar interests To meet new people, hear about new products and have some pleasant surprises I just

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To Conference or Unconference?

In our first unconference session at  SLA2009, we talked about a lot of things. But most of the discussion centered around conferences vs unconferences. Meg Smith did a wonderful job of moderating it. She took lots of notes and promised

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