Short takes week of July 16

Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (Germany) AIFB http://www.aifb.kit.edu

FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) Karlsruhe http://www.fzi.de

Jobs Policy Debate (US) Andy Grove article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html

Jobs and skills (US)  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufacturing.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (India) IIT Bombay http://www.sineiitb.org/

Association of Cost Engineers (UK) Rajkumar Roy, Professor of Competitive Design, Cranfield University http://www.acoste.org.uk

American Education Research Association (US) ISSS Roundtable may be forming contact Sue Gabriele https://www.aera.net/
Gabriele Educational Materials and Systems (US) http://www.gemslearning.com

International Society for Systems Sciences (US) http://isss.org/world/index.php

Intense Video promoting Non-Fiction Book (US) Social Media Finding from Jean Paul Jacob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-i0faBPkY

Ocean Resources Sustainability (EU) Video Competition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTT9-xuWoMo

World Science and Engineering Academy and Society (WW) http://www.wseas.org

Student Engineering Exhibition (Pakistan) http://www.see2010.net/about_kiet.html

Qingdao Desalination Conference (China) http://www.desalination.biz/whatson/view_event.asp?id=124

Coro (US) Training civic leaders http://www.coro.org

Project Management (US) http://ilign.com/

International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (India) http://www.isb.edu/ICSEM2010/

International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (Italy) ICAART 2011  http://www.icaart.org/

International Conference on Emerging Economies (India) http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/smfconf/

LinkedIn Group Service Science (WW)  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=149276

Silicon Valley e-Learning Foundation (US) http://www.svefoundation.org/

Masters of IT in Business for Service Sector (Singapore) http://www.sjs.smu.edu.sg

Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (US) U Chicago, Booth School of Management http://www.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship

Global Knowledge Initiative (WW) http://globalknowledgeinitiative.org
Technology, Investment, and Policy (US) University of Minnesota  http://www.technoscan.com/

University of Pretoria Webcampus Blog for Students (South Africa) http://blogs.up.ac.za/esmwebcampus.php

Build Your Business (WW) http://www.smetoolkit.org

Governors Education Summits (US) http://www.achieve.org/Summits (as in http://www.corestandards.org/)

Irving’s Blog (US)  http://blog.irvingwb.com/

Future of Higher Education (Australia) Ross Dawson https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/griffith.edu.au.3684852440

Perspective Balancer (US) http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/06/why-i-returned-my-ipad.html

SRII Global Conference (US San Jose) March 30 – April 2, 2011 http://www.thesrii.org/index.php/global-conference

SRII Global Conference Call for Paper http://www.thesrii.org/index.php/global-conference/2011-confernce-papers

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php