Short takes 16 August

Food & Products (WW) IBM Smarter Food                                http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/opinions/opinion_20081208.shtml

Food & Products (US) Smart Clothes http://tinyurl.com/2duwrld

Energy (US) http://www.pgsenergy.com/phone-seminar/E-101a/Fundamentals-Electric-Service-System/424

Energy (WW) Shale and Liquid Natural Gas Intro Course http://www.pmaconference.com/Shale-LNG-0810-PMA.PDF

Energy (WW) IBM Rational Focal Point                                            http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/r-focalpointutil.html

Comm/ICT (US) Silicon Valley Network http://www.aonetwork.com/

Comm/ICT (US) Future of Mobile Cloud http://tinyurl.com/35dr9rm

Comm/ICT (US) Future of Augmented Reality http://tinyurl.com/2uekajb

Comm/ICT (US) CACM Mechanism Design Meets Computer Science http://tinyurl.com/2fxou3x

Comm/ICT (US) CACM Intelligent Service Machine http://tinyurl.com/23zv5js

Comm/ICT (EU) http://www.prace-project.eu/news/prace-awards-320-million-compute-hours-to-ten-european-research-projects

Retail (US) Demand Management https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/940909241

Finance/Business (WW) Functions & Sectors Weekly Recap http://tinyurl.com/263f3tg

Health (WW) Economist The New Health  http://tinyurl.com/256xhvd

Health (WW) Mitochondrial Toxicology  http://www.labtube.tv/avc-interest.aspx?i=5&c=1&v=621

Health (US)  Berkeley Images from Brain http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/29/inception-science-dreams-technology-brain_slide_2.html

Health (US) NIH 5 Critical Pathways for Science http://www.forbeswolfe.com/2010/07/web-exclusive-nih-director-francis.html

Education (WW) Managing multiple priorities http://www.pryor.com/mkt_info/seminars/desc/MM.asp

Education (WW) T-Shaped managers http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2235.html

Education (WW) Art and Skills for 21st Century  http://www.nmc.org/pdf/P21-Arts-Map.pdf

Education (WW) Working outside your comfort zone http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jul2010/ca2010071_670440.htm

Education (US) Entrepreneurship and New Ventures Kauffman FastTrac® Teams Up With Kaplan University to Offer Online FastTrac Courses

Education (US) Educause on Cloud Computing http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB9009.pdf

Education (US) Great Colleges to Work For http://chronicle.com/section/Great-Colleges-to-Work-For/156/

Education (US) Facts and Figures http://chronicle.com/section/Facts-Figures/58/

Education (US) Shared Service http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/paper_details.php?id=78

State (MA) MA grew 2x faster than US http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/07/mass_economy_is.html

Nations (WW) Innovation and Economic Prosperity http://www.itif.org/files/2010-doe-ratkinson.pdf

Nations (WW) Rights for Autonomous Artificial Agents http://tinyurl.com/2bfmwrt

Nations (WW) Leadership http://www.zfco.com/media/articles/ZFA-25-Methods-to-Inspire.pdf