Iran restricts social sciences in education
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_university_restrictions
quote from the article: “The list includes law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science and the two subjects that appear to cause the most concern among Iran’s conservative leadership — women’s studies and human rights.”
IMHO:
By preventing people from learning about other perspectives I think small groups of people promote misunderstandings and raise barriers, fear and mistrust among human beings.
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 energy portfolios for a sustainable future.
The up to 200-word abstracts are due by November 15, 2010.
Every aspect of technology management will be included in PICMET’11. There will be research papers, implementation papers, tutorials and invited keynote speeches. Plenty of networking opportunities will be provided in the technical program as well as the social activities.
Computers and data projectors will be available in every session. The authors will be asked to bring their Power Point presentations on a USB drive.
The papers accepted by PICMET and presented at the PICMET’11 Conference will be included in IEEE Explore as well as all major citation indexes in Compendex (formerly EI: Engineering Index), and INSPEC.
Critical deadlines are as follows:
November 15, 2010: Submission of abstracts (up to 200 words)
January 31, 2011: Submission of the full papers for review process
April 15, 2011: Submission of the finalized papers
April 15, 2011: Submission of the copyright forms
April 15, 2011: Registration of at least one of the authors of each paper
We hope to see you in Portland on July 30 – August 4, 2011.
Information about PICMET is available at www.picmet.org.
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, hospitals, research labs, and companies all over the world.
IHI 2010 will feature about 120 contributions from more than 30 countries, including regular 10-page papers, short 5-page papers, and demonstrations. Selected regular papers will be presented in oral plenary sessions. Other papers and demos will be presented by the authors in an open setting, specifically designed to encourage conversation and discussion. The symposium will cover the breadth of problems faced by the community: health informatics education, telemedicine, systems for decision support, human-centered design, information retrieval techniques for health applications, accessibility to personalized predictive modeling techniques, and so on. A highlight of the conference is that we will give awards for the best regular paper and the best short paper.
IHI 2010 reflects a collective community effort including reviewers as well as corporate sponsors, who gave generously of their time and who provided funds to specific areas of the symposium. The following companies and institutions generously provided financial support: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, IBM, Indiana University, Google, Hidola, and Siemens.
Arlington, VA is in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The conference hotel, Hilton Crystal City, is easily accessible by the Washington Metro System and the Reagan National Airport. Within a few subway stops it is possible to reach many of the Washington area museums, monuments, and other attractions.
Online registration is now available at the conference website (http://ihi2010.sighi.org). We also encourage you to stay at the conference hotel at the pre-negotiated conference rates. A direct link to the Hilton hotel reservation system is conveniently available at the conference website.
The conference co-organizers are looking forward to your visit!
MIT Engineering Systems Division faculty job post
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 to address challenges in complex systems, with focus on “service systems,” with special emphasis on health care, or education, or logistics-as-a-service, as well as the trend to offer products as a service. Services comprise over 75% of the US economy, and this area is an important growth area for ESD.
Examples of additional relevant types of expertise include services outcomes and quality, risk analysis and decision-making, information
technology, operations and logistics, economics, statistics and/or services research, mathematical modeling of services, and the development / implementation of services relevant devices and systems, as well as other services innovations.
This faculty member will develop a significant research program and teach related courses. The successful candidate will also collaborate effectively with crossdisciplinary teams of faculty, students and external stakeholders (e.g., industry and government). The selected candidate will hold a dual appointment with another academic department at MIT. In special circumstances a joint appointment rather than a dual appointment may be possible.
Applicants with an advanced degree in engineering or related fields (e.g., operations research, statistics, service science) are strongly encouraged. Applicants must have a PhD in a relevant field before the beginning of the MIT appointment period plus additional academic and/or real world experience in one or more of the services systems identified above. The preferred candidate might also have a degree related directly to a
particular service system, such as an MD or MPH. Strong teaching skills and
demonstrated excellence in research are critical.
The search committee will begin reviewing applications in November 2010, with a view to inviting visits early in 2011. Applicants should submit a current curriculum vita, names and addresses of three references, no more than three publications, and a three-page statement of teaching and research interests at http://esd-search.mit.edu. Please ask your references to submit their letters at http://esd-search.mit.edu/letters by December 15, 2010.
MIT is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer. Women and underrepresented minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
ART & SCIENCE OF SERVICE CONFERENCE June 8-10, 2011 IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
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 create innovative service offerings
– Developing infrastructures for service delivery in the context of public policy and/or governmental agencies
– Information and Communication Technologies and Systems (ICTS)
– Service design methodologies and practices that facilitate sociability and/or economic growth
– User studies of indigenous populations and their unique use of technology
– Beyond Deployment: Successful & unsuccessful large scale adoption of services
– Expanding the Discipline of Service Science
– Best Practices for Developing Service Science Curricula/Certification Programs/ -Specializations
– Alignment of service science research with industry practices
– Future trends for service science research
The Application of Service Science Including:
– Healthcare Services
– Educational/training Services
– Cloud Computing Services
– Information for Contributors:
Individuals from academia, business and government are invited to submit refereed research papers, non-refereed research abstracts, and proposals for workshops, panels, and symposia. All submissions should have a clear service innovation focus and are encouraged to be transdisciplinary in nature; that is, they should involve more than a single traditional discipline.
Submission Deadlines:
The submission deadline for refereed research papers is February 15, 2011. The submission deadline for non-refereed research abstracts and proposals is March 15, 2011.
For more information on the conference, contact:
Mark M. Davis
Bentley University
Waltham, MA 02452 USA
Email: mdavis@bentley.edu
IBM Cloud Academy web site
The Chilean way for innovation
In an article recently published at The Daily Best, the Chilean way for innovation is explained with the mega-rescue of the 33 miners last week. Here are 5 success factors for every innovation process:
- Fast decision process
“First, a rapid decision to take action at a high level of intensity came from the top. In general, without direction and buy-in, large-scale innovation efforts will not move at the speed or with the focus that is needed. Bottom-up is fine—and in vogue—in terms of innovation diversity, but direction during a crisis is necessary.” - Culture of collaboration and empowerment
“Second, this empowerment led to an extraordinary culture of collaboration, surprising even to many insiders, that demonstrated a pragmatic willingness to embrace new rules and roles. Recall that this was at its heart a government-led effort to address a private-sector problem.” - Exploring alternative solutions
“Third, the strategy involved developing multiple solution pathways rather than putting all the eggs in one basket. In conditions of uncertainty, all avenues must be explored even at the expense of redundancy and wasted resources.” - Business people sponsoring and controlling the process
“Fourth, the government was in control of the story. It managed expectations around the tempo and potential outcome of the rescue in a way that shielded the work process from undue intrusion by media or an overwrought public.” - Multilevel objectives to reach a goal
“Finally, the desired outcome was defined broadly to ensure success on multiple levels. The goal was not simply to bring 33 people to the surface, but to bring them back in the best possible condition.”
These five factors summarize very well how can we focus on innovation in the service industry.
Note: This post is published in Spanish at Service Innovation Chile (SSME Chile)
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Ricardo Seguel
Service Innovation Chile
http://blog.ssmechile.org
Accenture to Spend $100 Million on skills training
Wordle.net
We all know the challenge of trying to provide a nice overview of a complex area in a compelling manner. With http://www.worldle.net one can easily take a paper or a URL and turn it into a visually appealing overview of an area.
For example, an IBM colleague recently sent me some material about work going on at universities related to speech and language technologies that could underlie a number of new serivce innovations…. Here is the Wordle of that:
https://service-science.info/archives/837/wordle-of-language-tech-posting-2
Thanks to my IBM colleague Jean Paul Jacob also at Berkeley CITRIS for this pointer: http://www.worlde.net