The Value of HPC and Better Simulation Models (WW)

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Many service science researchers world wide are working on better simulation models of service systems and networks.   Some of these models will eventually require high performance computing (HPC) systems that rival super computers used in weather prediction to produce their results.  One question the community needs to be asking itself is how can the community best leverage HPC and simulation models today?  Many areas of science can advance with the aid of HPC and better simulation models in general.    When will the service science community have results like the following (in the physics domain), but for service system designs that are improved based on  Monte Carlo simulation runs?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm

Short takes 21 August

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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 http://www.imob.uhasselt.be/index.php?page=2&action=language&language=3

Transportation/Supply Chain (Singapore) SMU http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/research/research_areas/research_areas_ECSCS.asp

Water/Waste/Air (WW) JAZD Research Report http://tinyurl.com/39qoed9

JAZD Insights (WW) http://www.jazdmarkets.com/

Food/Manufacturing (US) Job Slip Away From US Cities http://tinyurl.com/2ulqe32

Energy (US) Vehicle Recharging Stations http://tinyurl.com/34ewwpk

Energy (WW) Filling Peak Demand https://portal.luxresearchinc.com/research/document_excerpt/6569

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Social Media http://tinyurl.com/33guwvf

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Brain-Computer Interface http://tinyurl.com/25d6zh5

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Smart Gadgets http://tinyurl.com/3ylfhub

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Cellphone Microscope http://cellscope.berkeley.edu/

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Stanford HPC Simulating Materials http://simes.slac.stanford.edu/

Info-Comm/ICT (Canada) HPC http://www.scinet.utoronto.ca/

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) http://www.citygml.org/ (also see http://www.cast.uark.edu/)

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) Future tools for students http://tinyurl.com/q735x7

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) Virtual Conferences http://www.nmc.org/2minute-survey/virtual-conferences

Info-Comm/ICT (Canada) Alberta SMART whiteboards http://tinyurl.com/28va3sx

Buildings (US) Yale http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/spring2009/kroon-hall-rises/

Health (US) EHR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jqnyd_3NU

Health (US) Scan blood http://tinyurl.com/33xawpp

Health (US) UMissouri http://tinyurl.com/2egwy2f

Education (US) Starting Salaries Engineers http://tinyurl.com/37w8xc4

Education (US) IBM Sourcing service  http://tinyurl.com/lor799

Education (Finland) Aalto Shared service and governance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalto_University

Education (Brazil, France) Game to learn to fight pandemics http://www.epidemik.com.br/Assista_ao_video.html

Education (US) Fixing US Education Panel http://vimeo.com/12472147

Education (WW) http://singularityu.org/gsp-10/2010/06/gsp10-oc-highlights/

Education (US) Rutgers http://psm.rutgers.edu/content/sc

Education (US) Flexbook http://about.ck12.org/fbdemo12/

Education (US) Complexity and Engineering Mindset http://tinyurl.com/28qbr8q

Education (WW) IEEE Weigh in on Future of Computer Science http://tinyurl.com/38c6msj

Education (WW) Universities getting smarter http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620

Education (US) Silicon Valley http://ua-sv.com/

Cities (US) IBM  http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/smarter-cities.html

Cities (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities

Cities (US) UArkansas http://uacdc.uark.edu/

Cities (France) Urban Dive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnuFkMrMPM.

Cities (US) See-Click-Fix http://seeclickfix.com/citizens

Cities (US) NYC 311 http://www.nyc.gov/apps/311/

States (US) IBM http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html

States (Qatar) $100B development investment http://tinyurl.com/2uq3jb7

Nations (WW) http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/smfconf/

Nations (Qatar) Population doubling http://tinyurl.com/37u5fas

Nations (WW) http://www.oecd.org/innovation/strategy

Nations (US) most federal agencies use social media http://tinyurl.com/25zmbj5

Planet (WW) IBM  www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

Planet (WW) IBM  System of Systems $4Trillion Challenge http://tinyurl.com/2w9y5c5

Planet (WW) IBM  Future Leaders http://www.ibm.com/futureleaders http://tinyurl.com/29j9nac

Planet (WW) MIT Global Change http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/theses.html

Planet (UK) UCambridge http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/roundtable.html

IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/

Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World  http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php

NY Times article supports shared service

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Academic Bankruptcy
By MARK C. TAYLOR
Published: August 14, 2010
WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending and a 32 percent rise in tuition — is likely to become the norm at public and private colleges. Government support is being slashed, endowments and charitable giving are down, debts are piling up, expenses are rising and some schools are selling their product for two-thirds of what it costs to produce it. You don’t need an M.B.A. to know this situation is unsustainable.
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Short takes 16 August

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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

Comm/ICT (US) CACM Mechanism Design Meets Computer Science http://tinyurl.com/2fxou3x

Comm/ICT (US) CACM Intelligent Service Machine http://tinyurl.com/23zv5js

Comm/ICT (EU) http://www.prace-project.eu/news/prace-awards-320-million-compute-hours-to-ten-european-research-projects

Retail (US) Demand Management https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/940909241

Finance/Business (WW) Functions & Sectors Weekly Recap http://tinyurl.com/263f3tg

Health (WW) Economist The New Health  http://tinyurl.com/256xhvd

Health (WW) Mitochondrial Toxicology  http://www.labtube.tv/avc-interest.aspx?i=5&c=1&v=621

Health (US)  Berkeley Images from Brain http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/29/inception-science-dreams-technology-brain_slide_2.html

Health (US) NIH 5 Critical Pathways for Science http://www.forbeswolfe.com/2010/07/web-exclusive-nih-director-francis.html

Education (WW) Managing multiple priorities http://www.pryor.com/mkt_info/seminars/desc/MM.asp

Education (WW) T-Shaped managers http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2235.html

Education (WW) Art and Skills for 21st Century  http://www.nmc.org/pdf/P21-Arts-Map.pdf

Education (WW) Working outside your comfort zone http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jul2010/ca2010071_670440.htm

Education (US) Entrepreneurship and New Ventures Kauffman FastTrac® Teams Up With Kaplan University to Offer Online FastTrac Courses

Education (US) Educause on Cloud Computing http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB9009.pdf

Education (US) Great Colleges to Work For http://chronicle.com/section/Great-Colleges-to-Work-For/156/

Education (US) Facts and Figures http://chronicle.com/section/Facts-Figures/58/

Education (US) Shared Service http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/paper_details.php?id=78

State (MA) MA grew 2x faster than US http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/07/mass_economy_is.html

Nations (WW) Innovation and Economic Prosperity http://www.itif.org/files/2010-doe-ratkinson.pdf

Nations (WW) Rights for Autonomous Artificial Agents http://tinyurl.com/2bfmwrt

Nations (WW) Leadership http://www.zfco.com/media/articles/ZFA-25-Methods-to-Inspire.pdf

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Service Science Transdisciplinary Framework (WW) Journal of Service Science (Pp. 8-9) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/

Inventing the Future of Services (US) CMU Course http://tinyurl.com/2ak5na4

Mental Models of Time (WW) Thanks to Bob Lusch for pointer to  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

Transportation (US) Driverless Cars http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/02/2124104/driverless-cars-to-hit-the-streets.html

Transportation (WW) RFID for Airports http://www.researchandmarkets.com/product/f3dc86/rfid_for_airports_and_airlines_20082018

Water/Environment (France) City Sensors http://www.lamontreverte.org/en/

Water/Climate (EU) Knowledge Community http://www.climate-kic-proposal.org/

Water (US) Water and Health Science and Policy http://www.ie.unc.edu/content/news_events/symposia/2010/index.cfm

Water (Middle East) Desalination and Solar http://www.medrc.org/index.cfm?area=research

Energy (US) Stanford Solar Capture http://tinyurl.com/2aqtu9x

Energy (US) Scaling up Solar http://www.altaterra.net/events/event_details.asp?id=115541

Energy/Climate Policy (US) Stanford Event http://pesd.stanford.edu/events/climate_policy_instruments_in_the_real_world/

Comm/ICT (WW) Socialnomics http://vimeo.com/11551721

Comm/ICT (WW) Anywhere http://www.yankeegroup.com/anywhere/anywhereIndexMap.html

Comm/ICT (India) Mobile for Semi-Literate http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-and-iit-bombay-to-collaborate-on-mobile-web-research-99913724.html

Comm/ICT (US) Magellan Cloud Computing http://magellan.nersc.gov/

Comm/ICT (Ireland) Exascale Computing IBM Recruiting http://www-05.ibm.com/ie/nowhiring/index5.html

Retail (WW) self-service check out http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/03/2931958/bill-would-shield-unions-not-children.html

Financial/Business (WW) Why I am an IBMer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dcm4GNpRbY

Financial/Business (WW) Tapscott Macrowikinomics http://www.ngenera.com/lp/default.aspx?id=2670

Health (WW) Virus Engineering http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/computer-designed-vaccines-confront-new-flu-strains/1004089.article

Education (WW) Universities and Cities http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620

Education (WW) Singularity University and Exponentially Advancing Technologies  http://singularityu.org/

Education (WW) Thinking about Exponential Growth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=related

Education (US) Linking Engineering and Liberal Arts Education http://www.union.edu/integration

Education (US) CS Education statistics http://www.cra.org/resources/taulbee/

Education (US) Georgia Tech $20M chemistry of life http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=60271

Education (WW) Management of Technology MOT Course http://www.ie.miami.edu/graduate_programs/ms_mot/ms_mot.html

Cities (US) Babcock Ranch City of the Future http://www.babcockranchflorida.com/video.asp

Cities (WW) Earthmine Tools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_OzB25-sN0&feature=player_embedded

Cities (US) MIT Sensable Cities Carlo Ratti  http://vimeo.com/5520063

States (US) California Employee Salaries http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/

Nations (India) R&D awards http://www.itnewsonline.com/news/Zinnov-Announces-Winners-of-Zinnov-Awards-&-Recognition-Program-2010/20189/8/1

Nations (US) Pessimistic http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/leading-economics-bloggers-pessimistic-according-to-kauffman-foundation-survey.aspx

Nations (US) Future of DARPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdxR6AuxWY4

Planet (WW) Smart Planet  http://www.smartplanet.com/

Planet (WW) PhotoCity http://www.cra.org/ccc/rh-photocity.php

Planet (WW) Living Earth Visual http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=82283&CultureCode=en

Cities and the Future of Service

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Cities and the Future of Service (WW)

James Cortada (IBM) writes in Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/28/cities-data-growth-ibm-leadership-citizenship-talent.html) : “For the first time ever, more than half of us are city dwellers. By 2050 that number will be 70%. We are adding the equivalent of seven New York Cities to the planet every year. This unprecedented urbanization is a sign of economic and societal progress, especially in places such as China and in other emerging markets. But the scale and nature of the challenges facing cities mean that business as usual is not a viable option. ”   http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/smarter-cities.html

Short takes 10 August

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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 (WW)  The Living Building Challenge  http://ilbi.org/

Smarter Education, Universities, and Cities (US) Silicon Valley http://ua-sv.com/

Smarter Cities (WW) Ecocity Builders   http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/

Smarter Cities (China, India) http://tinyurl.com/38vkstb

Future of Heart of Silicon Valley (US) Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4OJ6xKuug

Safer Oil  Exploration and Mining (Brazil) http://tinyurl.com/39v3ks4

Nano Bio Clean Tech (WW)  http://www.ianano.org/Site/Events/NBCT/Winner2009.html

Open Science Summit Concept (US) http://opensciencesummit.com/

Open Science Summit Event (US) July 29-31, 2010 Berkeley http://opensciencesummit.eventbrite.com/

ZDNet Announcements (WW) http://www.zdnet.com/topics/announcement

Service in Emerging Economies conference

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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 in government and business?

As Amartya Sen described development as freedom, the growth of service in an economy help people eliminate unfreedoms – of being unhealthy, uneducated, unemployed,  etc.   “The objective of this conference is to provide a venue for international community including academics, government. NGOs, and industry to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest ideas about the Services Innovations which are driving the government and industry in delivering the services. This will also give an opportunity for the community to discuss and debate the state and the evolution of the Services in Emerging Markets”

ISB Hydrabad, India Sept 23-24 http://www.isb.edu/ICSEM2010/

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  http://tinyurl.com/24pr72v

HPC (UK) Edinburg http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Eddie-Gets-Power-Boost-Goes-Green-97861034.html

HPC Cloud (US) CITRIS   http://cloud.citris-uc.org

Venturing and Investing (WW) Guild Investment http://guildinvestment.com/

New York City Venture Fellows (US) http://www.nycventurefellows.org .

Strategic Business Insights (WW) Http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com

XBRL standard for financial reporting (US) VintageFiling http://www.vfilings.com/

Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (SRI) LIFE http://www.life-slc.org/about-the-life-center

Service Factory Education  (US) Students Meet Your Robot Teacher  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Personal Robot Industry in Our Life Time (WW) Silicon Valley’s Willow Garage http://tinyurl.com/2amtzju

Robots that Make Things (MakerBots) http://www.makerbot.com/

Service Factory Health  (US) Factory Efficiency Comes to Hospitals http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11seattle.html

Service System Learning (New Scientist) To Be The Best, Learn From The Rest http://tinyurl.com/2ft2xsm

Smarter Systems (US) National Governors Association http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html

Industry University Collaboration (US) Research and Education  http://research.google.com/university/relations/eduSummit2007/

Industry University Collaboration (US) Research and Education  http://tinyurl.com/25amc78

Learning Design and Technology (US) Stanford  http://ldt.stanford.edu

Learning Object Metadata (US) Tom Wason http://www.tomwason.com

Spectrum of Higher Education (US) NYT on Delta Project Report  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/education/10education.html

Trends in College Spending (US) Delta Project  Report http://deltacostproject.org/analyses/delta_reports.asp

WW GDP and Top Ranked Universities (WW) http://tinyurl.com/2wy7hu9

Charter Cities (WW) Paul Romer’s TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html

Innovation City (US) Manor Texas http://cityofmanor.org

Innovation City (US) Babcock Ranch Florida http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31827.wss

Innovation City (Denmark) http://www.bass.dk/power/

City Forward (WW) http://www.CityForward.org

Urban Age (WW) http://www.urban-age.net

Study of Work (US) Colorado http://www.colorado.edu/Research/CISW/

Changing the Conversation (US) Marketing Engineering http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187#toc

SSME (IBM) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/ssme

Smarter Istanbul (Turkey) http://tinyurl.com/2uq2jjx

Global Mining and Carbon Report (IBM) http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/green/cdp2009/mining.html?ca=_mining_lead_&me=w&met=uk_green

Business Process Bluepinting tool (IBM) http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/bpm-blueprint/

Available via Academic Initiatives website (IBM) https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/academicinitiative/