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This just in from Christoph Breidbach: Jim, I very much enjoy reading through service-science.info and was hoping that you could include a CfP on the page. My colleagues Daviel Beverungen, Jens Poeppelbuss, Virpi Tuunainen and I are editing a Special Issue on ‘Smart Service Systems: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’ for the Information Systems Journal. The …
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Currently, I am working on a new “science of cognitive computing” curriculum for IBM with our partner universities and others to allow people of all ages to design, build, understand, and work with cognitive mediators. The curriculum is inspired in part by the work of Douglas Engelbart, an American engineer and inventor, and an early …
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A colleague of mine, whom I have great respect for, just sent a fascinating email to a group of global computer science researchers as well as social science and policy making scholars. He wrote in part: Building robust cognitive systems requires moving beyond task-specific systems, to cognitive architectures where the same system (1) handles …
Startups are hard work and most will fail. However, most students and early career professionals will become more future-ready T-shaped adaptive innovators if they work hard and learn fast at one or more startups. Steve Miller (IBM Analytics) sent me these interesting reads: Check out one experience about how hard it really is to spin …
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Doug Engelbart is most well-known for the invention of the mouse, and being an internet pioneer (the first leg of the internet connected to his lab in California). However, for those who know his work, these contributions are not the most significant. Doug’s vision for improving improvement to better tackle complex, urgent problems is to …
Dear T-Summit enthusiast, Thanks for your interest in and contributions to past T-Summits. We are collecting extended abstract/short 4-page papers now for an ISSIP BEP T-Summit book (http://www.issip.org/issip-partnership/). First draft submissions should be sent to BEPEditors@issip.org by May 1st. Authors will be notified by August 1st or sooner, if their short paper will be included …
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“Service Transformation in Industrial Companies” in the International Journal of Production Research Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to inform you that the deadline for submitting an abstract to the special issue “Service Transformation in Industrial Companies” in the International Journal of Production Research has been postponed to April 15th, 2016. Please find below and attached …
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This call for chapters just in again: forthcoming book titled: Engineering and Management of Data Centers: an IT Service Management Approach Dear colleagues interested in Data Centers and high related topics (ITSM, IT Architecture, IT Management, DevOps, among others): We call for chapters proposals (title, authors, a 500-word abstract, and main references) for the forthcoming …
Deadline extended to March 28!!! Save the Dates The 11th Annual Meeting of the Service Management and Science Forum June 24 -26, 2016 Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA Theme Managing Service in the Era of Social Media and the Role of Business …
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The 4th International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2016) Data: Sept 6(Tue)-8(Thu), 2016 Place: Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan ================================================ We are pleased to inform you the 4th international conference on Serviceology (ICServ2016) held in Tokyo. The main goal of this conference is to provide opportunities for the researchers from academia and industry to share the …
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