ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge

1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden http://www.servdes.org/ The Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation, ServDes, is the premier research conference within service design and service innovation. The conference starts with an UnConference day December 1st, and continues with 2 days of research presentations, case presentations and workshops. All confirmed presentations of contributions can be found …

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CFP – Educational Technologies and Engineering Education

We invite you to submit a paper/abstract to The 3rd International Symposium on Engineering Education and Educational Technologies: EEET 2011 (www.2011iiisconferences.org/eeet), to be held in the context of The 4th International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2011, in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 19th – July 22nd, 2011 (www.2011iiisconferences.org/imeti) Below are the next …

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New INFORMS Section – lunch November 8 at the annual meeting

Are you interested in how operations research and management science can be applied to systems with public impact? For example, an animal shelter with arrivals and adoptions is a service system, government agencies design processes that deliver services to taxpayers (e.g., building permits or justice and protection), and after disasters Non-Governmental Organizations provide health, food, …

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Job notice at Masaryk University in Brno

Our faculty opens a new position of Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Computer Systems and Communication for the Service Science, Management, and Engineering study branch. It is expected to substitute me in the position of SSME study field leader in 3 or 4 years. Of course I will continue in work in SSME both …

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Iran restricts social sciences in education

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_university_restrictions quote from the article:  “The list includes law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science and the two subjects that appear to cause the most concern among Iran’s conservative leadership — women’s studies and human rights.” IMHO: By preventing people from learning about other perspectives I think small groups of people promote misunderstandings and raise barriers, …

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PICMET 11 – July 30 – Aug 4

PICMET’11(Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology) Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon – USA on July 30 – August 4, 2011. The theme is “Technology Management for the Energy-smart World”. The thrust will be on the crucial role of technology management in making the right choices in evaluating, developing and managing …

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1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium Arlington, VA

Call for Participation IHI 2010 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium Arlington, VA November 11-12, 2010 http://ihi2010.sighi.org IHI 2010 is the inaugural symposium on health informatics promoted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). IHI is designed to run as an annual showcase for exciting and innovative research on techniques and technologies developed in universities, …

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MIT Engineering Systems Division faculty job post

ESD Faculty Position MIT Engineering Systems Division The MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD) invites applications for a tenure track faculty position. ESD includes over 60 faculty, has the 4th largest graduate population of any department or division at MIT, and focuses on important global challenges: http://esd.mit.edu/about/strategic-report.html. This position will focus on applying engineering systems methodologies …

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