Dr. Steve Hoover, CEO of PARC IE Radio 4/28/2011 147 comments Dr. Steve Hoover is CEO of PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), a Xerox company. Steve joined PARC as its CEO in 2011 after 40 years of working in technology R&D. Previously, he served as vice president of the Xerox Research Center in Webster, N.Y. He specializes in integrating technology, market, customer, and business opportunities – from fundamental R&D, to commercial scale-up.
Steve's personal research and long-term technology work spans several disciplines including cloud computing, clean-tech, nanotech, mobile, and the future of work, as well as advanced printing and mass customization technologies. He currently has seven patents issued and pending.
We'll be talking with Dr. Hoover about the evolution of R&D and how to create a culture of innovation.
Midmarket Clan Chat: Business Analytics Optimization IE Radio 4/26/2011 165 comments Come chat with colleagues in the midmarket about Business Analytics Optimization. BAO is the market category comprising the software and services that allow organizations to turn the wealth of information available today into insight.
Susan Crawford, Founder of One Web Day IE Radio 4/21/2011 136 comments Susan Crawford is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Previously, she co-lead the FCC Agency Review team for the Obama-Biden transition, and served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She was a board member at ICANN until 2008, and she is the founder of One Web Day, which seeks to broaden awareness of Internet and Web issues.
Cristina Videira Lopes, PhD IE Radio 4/7/2011 125 comments A former research scientist at Xerox PARC, Crista Lopes was instrumental in developing interserver teleporting for OpenSim virtual worlds. As an associate professor of informatics at the
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Dr. Lopes continues to explore "ubiquitous computing," focused on methods of human communication that are "pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with."
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
Dr. Steve Hoover, CEO of PARC
