Short takes 21 August

European Association for REsearch on SERvices (EU) http://www.reser.net/

IBM #4 2010 Most Innovative Company (WW) http://www.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/innovative_companies_2010.html

Smartest Scientist (CNN) http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/41.html

Transportation (US) MIT http://cee.mit.edu/graduate/mst

Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/research.html

Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/MITSIMLabOSnew.html

Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/traffic21/about-traffic21/index.aspx

Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/australia/news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=1073

Transportation (US) NCSU http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/CE.html

Transportation (US) UMichigan http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.php

Transportation (UK) Imperial http://www.geomatics.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/research/its.asp

Transportation (Belgium) UHasselt http://www.imob.uhasselt.be/index.php?page=2&action=language&language=3

Transportation/Supply Chain (Singapore) SMU http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/research/research_areas/research_areas_ECSCS.asp

Water/Waste/Air (WW) JAZD Research Report http://tinyurl.com/39qoed9

JAZD Insights (WW) http://www.jazdmarkets.com/

Food/Manufacturing (US) Job Slip Away From US Cities http://tinyurl.com/2ulqe32

Energy (US) Vehicle Recharging Stations http://tinyurl.com/34ewwpk

Energy (WW) Filling Peak Demand https://portal.luxresearchinc.com/research/document_excerpt/6569

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Social Media http://tinyurl.com/33guwvf

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Brain-Computer Interface http://tinyurl.com/25d6zh5

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Smart Gadgets http://tinyurl.com/3ylfhub

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Cellphone Microscope http://cellscope.berkeley.edu/

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Stanford HPC Simulating Materials http://simes.slac.stanford.edu/

Info-Comm/ICT (Canada) HPC http://www.scinet.utoronto.ca/

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) http://www.citygml.org/ (also see http://www.cast.uark.edu/)

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) Future tools for students http://tinyurl.com/q735x7

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) Virtual Conferences http://www.nmc.org/2minute-survey/virtual-conferences

Info-Comm/ICT (Canada) Alberta SMART whiteboards http://tinyurl.com/28va3sx

Buildings (US) Yale http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/spring2009/kroon-hall-rises/

Health (US) EHR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jqnyd_3NU

Health (US) Scan blood http://tinyurl.com/33xawpp

Health (US) UMissouri http://tinyurl.com/2egwy2f

Education (US) Starting Salaries Engineers http://tinyurl.com/37w8xc4

Education (US) IBM Sourcing service  http://tinyurl.com/lor799

Education (Finland) Aalto Shared service and governance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalto_University

Education (Brazil, France) Game to learn to fight pandemics http://www.epidemik.com.br/Assista_ao_video.html

Education (US) Fixing US Education Panel http://vimeo.com/12472147

Education (WW) http://singularityu.org/gsp-10/2010/06/gsp10-oc-highlights/

Education (US) Rutgers http://psm.rutgers.edu/content/sc

Education (US) Flexbook http://about.ck12.org/fbdemo12/

Education (US) Complexity and Engineering Mindset http://tinyurl.com/28qbr8q

Education (WW) IEEE Weigh in on Future of Computer Science http://tinyurl.com/38c6msj

Education (WW) Universities getting smarter http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620

Education (US) Silicon Valley http://ua-sv.com/

Cities (US) IBM  http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/smarter-cities.html

Cities (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities

Cities (US) UArkansas http://uacdc.uark.edu/

Cities (France) Urban Dive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnuFkMrMPM.

Cities (US) See-Click-Fix http://seeclickfix.com/citizens

Cities (US) NYC 311 http://www.nyc.gov/apps/311/

States (US) IBM http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html

States (Qatar) $100B development investment http://tinyurl.com/2uq3jb7

Nations (WW) http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/smfconf/

Nations (Qatar) Population doubling http://tinyurl.com/37u5fas

Nations (WW) http://www.oecd.org/innovation/strategy

Nations (US) most federal agencies use social media http://tinyurl.com/25zmbj5

Planet (WW) IBM  www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

Planet (WW) IBM  System of Systems $4Trillion Challenge http://tinyurl.com/2w9y5c5

Planet (WW) IBM  Future Leaders http://www.ibm.com/futureleaders http://tinyurl.com/29j9nac

Planet (WW) MIT Global Change http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/theses.html

Planet (UK) UCambridge http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/roundtable.html

IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/

Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World  http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php