Watson earns WEBBY award

Watson is Webby Person of the Year The Webby Awards The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, …

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Short Takes 27 Aug

Service Science Ontology (Italy) http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrarioGuarinoFIS08Proceedings.pdf Service Science Ontology (Italy) Legal framework http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrGuarFern.pdf Transportation (China) Bus Straddles Cars http://tinyurl.com/3angwlh Water (WW) Pepsi Pledge http://tinyurl.com/369m7et Water/Environment (WW) Tropi-Dry http://tropi-dry.eas.ualberta.ca/2_who.html Energy (WW) Cool Solar Highways http://www.flixxy.com/solar-highways.htm Energy (Germany) Improved Solar Cell Models http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm Comm/ICT (Canada) Wireless Sensors http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/research-areas/database-systems/wireless-sensors Buildings (US) Green Homes http://tinyurl.com/38mtdfx Retail/Media & Entertainment (Canada) Serious …

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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 …

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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 …

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Short takes 10 August

Service Wave Conference (Belgium) http://servicewave.eu/2010/ Submit Service Wave Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sw20100 T-shaped Professionals (Singapore) http://tinyurl.com/385p56e Getting Hired Team Communication Skills (WW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A42Tab_bu6A&feature=related SD Logic and Service Science  (IMM) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2010.06.031 Submit Service Science Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=srii11 Technology Services World (WW) http://www.technologyservicesworld.com/ Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (EU)  http://www.acsi-project.eu/ Smarter Transportation (Australia) http://australia.betterplace.com/ Smarter Energy (Australia) http://www.energy.unimelb.edu.au/ Smarter Buildings …

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Short takes 7 August

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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Emerging Industry: City Making and Recycling:

People are used to recycling bottles, cellphones, and cars, so why not whole cities or at least sections of cities? (1) Cities are very important, and by 2050 75% of the worlds population will be urban dwellers http://www.urban-age.net (2) Great cities depend on great universities, and universities are often in the top ten employers of …

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Short takes week of 7/30

Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute  www.thesrii.org Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/ Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/ OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf US White House Innovation …

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Short takes – week of July 23

Conference on Service Innovation (UK) London Business School Sept 22-23, 2010 http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109 IBM Almaden Institute on Health (US) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute SPLASH Health Modeling Project (US)   http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/projects/splash Global Forces: An Introduction (WW) McKinsey Quarterly http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109 National Information Exchange Model (US) http://www.niem.gov/ Kuali Rice (WW) http://www.kuali.org/rice Bay Area Council (US) Focus economic development  http://www.bayareacouncil.org/ Jobs and Policy Design …

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Merging Service Systems: Shared Service and Shared Governance

Merging Service Systems:  Shared Service and Shared Governance, benefit from Upskilling Jobs and Strengthening Regional Identity :     When most people hear the word’s “shared service and shared governance” they hear “staff reductions” and political obstacles start emerging left and right.   In spite of this challenge, overcoming these political obstacles can lead to award winning results, …

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