Short takes week of July 9

Ovum Comments:  New Skills and Service Science http://www.ovum.com/go/content/c,77654

Best Paper Award Health INFORMS: http://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Community-Prizes-and-Awards/Pierskalla-Best-Paper-Award

Urban Dive Experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnuFkMrMPM

Earthmine (US Berkeley) collect-process-deliver pixel-level-accurate urban-maps  http://www.earthmine.com

US Dept ED SCANS http://www.arp.sprnet.org/default/curric/scans.htm

Service Innovation (Netherlands) Rene van Buuren http://www.novay.nl/about-novay/22

Water Test Kits  for Students http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.com/Test_Kits/Kits_Main.html

Making Service Science Mainstream: http://www.servicefactory.aalto.fi/fi/wp-content/themes/default/Service_Science_Summit_White_Paper.pdf

Executive Masters in Service Science (Switzerland) EMISS Michel Leonard  http://matis.unige.ch/

Complexity in Business Conference (US) Washington DC 11/12/2010 – last year’s http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ccb/cbconference.aspx

Services and Enterprise Research Unit (UK) Paul Daniels University of Birmingham http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/clusters/ee/seru/

Enterprise Risk Management for Universities (US) University of California http://www.ucop.edu/riskmgt/erm/

Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative (US) http://svii.net/events/?event_id=18

Visit University of Wisconsin Madison (US) NMC event (humorous) http://www.nmc.org/2010-summer-conference/nmc2011-invitation

International Doctoral or Post-Doc Grant (Portugal) IBM/UP/FEUP http://www.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas
IBM CAS (Portugal) Center for Advanced Study https://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas/sites/portugal/index.shtml

Service in Abnormal Situations (UK) Steve Baron (U Liverpool) sent this chilling video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb5rZkB1GgU

Modeling and Simulation (US) University of Central Florida http://www.iems.ucf.edu/about/leaders.html

Luxury resort hotels (US) of the complexity of the Venetian in Las Vegas  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7MeZlS5fo

Universities (US) key economic drivers for regions http://www.usucoalition.org/downloads/part4/great_cities_great_universities.pdf

Cities (US) models of cities http://www.earthmine.com and http://www.vterrain.org/Culture/BldCity/Com/services.html

Service Innovation (US) Steve Kwan San Jose State University (SJSU) http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/ssme/kwanmanchester2010.pptx

The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (Germany) KSRI http://www.ksri.kit.edu