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MIT Engineering Systems Division faculty job post

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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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ART & SCIENCE OF SERVICE CONFERENCE June 8-10, 2011 IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California

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Art & Science of Service 2011 Laura Smith • SERVICE SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES For this year’s conference, we seek submissions that focus on the following topics as they relate to developing countries: – Service Design and Innovations – Service offerings and technology that remove barriers of access to information – Leveraging existing technology to …

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Call for Papers, Frontiers in Service

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June 30 — July 3, 2011  • Columbus, Ohio, USA Call for Papers SPONSORED BY: The Center for Excellence in Service, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA Initiative for Managing Services, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, USA The American Marketing Association ► Conference Committee ► Current Topics ► About …

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Short takes 7 August

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Handbook of Service Science (Springer) http://tinyurl.com/3798ybl Service Science Progress and Directions (Spohrer) http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620 International Conference Exploring Service Science (Switzerland) http://iess.unige.ch/   http://www.slideshare.net/ServicesScience/iess-10-welcome Public Service Delivery (EU) COCKPIT  http://www.cockpit-project.eu/ Ecoblocks (WW) Harrison Fraker UCBerkeley  http://www.slideshare.net/geoff848/harrison-fraker-ecoblocks Grand Challenge Summit (US) USC http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/ Energy and Climate Change Network (Greece) http://www.kepa.uoa.gr/PROMITHEAS_general.htm Nano Progress (Lux Populi) Green Science and Tech Research  …

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Comparing Urbanization in China and India (McKinsey Quarterly)

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Comparing Urbanization in China and India (McKinsey Quarterly):   “China and India are in the vanguard of a wave of urban expansion that is restoring the global prominence that Asia enjoyed before the European and North American industrial revolution. By 2025, nearly 2.5 billion Asians will live in cities, accounting for almost 54 percent of the …

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Amazon and IBM are ‘cloud champions,’ report says

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By Jon Brodkin  — July 15, 2010 03:47 PM ET Network World – Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field. Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to …

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CFP IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining for Service (DMS2010)

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IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining for Service (DMS2010) held in conjunction with The 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’10), Sydney, Australia, 13 December 2010. Website http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~yada/conf/dms10/ ================== SCOPE ==================

Doctoral Symposium on Service: Part of the Grand Challenge in Service at the University of Cambridge Tuesday 21 September 2010

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Doctoral Symposium on Service: Part of the Grand Challenge in Service at the University of Cambridge Tuesday 21 September 2010 www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/doctoral.html From Nick Mann We would like to invite you are your colleagues to our upcoming Doctoral Symposium on Tuesday 21 September 2010, held at the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge. Are you are a second …

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