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

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

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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Service in Emerging Economies conference

Service in Emerging Economies (WW) Technology (including Information Communications Technology (ICT) and others) and new organizational forms can dramatically increase productivity in agriculture and manufacturing, but can it also enable higher skill, higher pay knowledge worker job opportunities.    For example, entrepreneurship enabled by mobile communications and smart phones, for education, healthcare, and mitigation of corruption …

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TEE conference proceedings now available

The IBM & IEEE conference we called “Transforming Engineering Education; Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for a Global Environment” has now published it’s proceedings at the IEEE.org web site, on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  This service is free to IEEE members. I have about 20 CD’s of the proceedings available to the first 20 people who …

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ServiceWave 2010 Call for Workshops

ServiceWave 2010  Call for Scientific Workshops ServiceWave 2010 solicits submissions for workshop proposals. The workshops will be held within the conference, December 13‐15 2010 at Ghent, Belgium. The main goal of the ServiceWave 2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange and interaction related to any of the conference topics, which include, but are …

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Short takes week of July 16

Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (Germany) AIFB http://www.aifb.kit.edu FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) Karlsruhe http://www.fzi.de Jobs Policy Debate (US) Andy Grove article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html Jobs and skills (US)  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufacturing.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (India) IIT Bombay http://www.sineiitb.org/ Association of Cost Engineers (UK) Rajkumar Roy, Professor of Competitive Design, Cranfield University …

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