Desalination Plants: The folks at U Texas El Paso have been very helpful in my efforts to understand groundwater and inland desalination. Also, Peter Williams has been helpful in my quest to understand desalination. He notes that while very popular, Reverse-Osmosis desal is not necessarily the clear favorite these days- there are new alternatives out there that promise much lower energy consumption. Forward osmosis, ion-stripping (check out www.saltworks.com, as an example), low pressure flash desal, and others. Brine disposal is absolutely a huge issue – especially groundwater brine which can have boron, arsenic, selenium and who-knows what else in it – usually, these contaminants are naturally occurring, but they become concentrated by the desalination process. IBM is a major user of RO filtration to create ultra-pure water for chip manufacturing. IBM has ultra-pure water engineers at our Burlington Fab.
Short takes week of 7/19
Why We Need a Service Science Initiative (Wales) http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/SSI
Take the Survey http://tinyurl.com/2etk5az
Systems Thinking for Service Research (WW) http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience//upload/12705660900.pdf
Service Science Journal (WW) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/
New Trends in Information Science and Service Science (Korea) http://www.aicit.org/niss/committee.html
Global 250 Private Companies (WW) Always On http://tinyurl.com /2cxyx5e
mart Connected Songdo (Korea) QoL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9qU-Sav8
Irrigation Infrastructure Policy (Australia) http://www.science.org.au/events/publiclectures/wm/crase.html
Social Media (US) Stanford http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/conference.html
Clean Tech (US) Berkeley http://executive.berkeley.edu/programs/cleantech-institute/
Urban Planning (US) MIT http://dusp.mit.edu/
Senseable Cities (US) MIT http://senseable.mit.edu/
Architecture and Planning (US) MIT http://sap.mit.edu/
Energy and Buildings (US) MIT Open Courseware http://tinyurl.com/33uhrnr
Knowledge Society Paradox (WW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TgXaaHPhAs
China top-rated universities
China Top Ranked Universities: China has seen a huge surge in the number of students attending universities (http://www.asiaecon.org/exclusives/ex_read/19). “As of right now, the number of students studying in Chinese universities has reached 25 million, which is an astonishing five-fold increase in only nine years, reported the Chinese Education Minister, Zhou Ji.” The number of top ranked universities in China is increasing. We noted the correlation between % of WW GDP and % of top-500-ranked universities in a previous blog post (http://www.arwu.org/ARWUAnalysis2009.jsp). There is also evidence starting to accumulate about the importance of SuperComputing and High-Performance-Computing (HPC) to both university rankings and national GDP. The HPC numbers for China are also becoming more and more impressive http://www.itworld.com/hardware/109473/china-flexes-supercomputing-muscle-top-500-rankings?source=ITWNLE_nlt_today_2010-05-3
http://124.16.137.70/2009-China-HPC-TOP100-20091101-eng.htm
Fixing American Education panel
Fixing American Education Panel http://vimeo.com/12472147
Videos available online
On June 4, Arizona State University hosted a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on the need for innovation in education. The purpose of the event was to advance an ongoing dialogue about new ideas and models for K-12 and higher education, and to highlight the model we are developing. The panel included:
Glenn Cummings, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Lorenzo Esters, Vice President for Access, Association for Public and Land Grant Universities
Heather Harding, Vice President for Research & Public Policy, Teach For America
Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Paula Kerger, President, Public Broadcasting System
Mari Koerner, Dean, ASU College of Teacher Education and Leadership
Dewayne Matthews, Vice President for Policy, Lumina Foundation
Bonnie Reiss, Secretary of Education, State of California
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 not limited to, the following: Service Engineering, Service Assemblies, Service Management, Service Oriented Architecture Runtime, Quality of Service, and Cloud Services, and Services in the Future Internet
We particularly encourage workshops on key research challenges that are:
Multidisciplinary: involve synergy between different scientific communities and research disciplines, with a special focus on requirements of the Future Internet,
Domain specific: focus on complete service oriented solutions for specific application domains, e.g. healthcare, telecommunications, government and public sector, military, etc.,
Operationally extreme: focus on solutions intended/designed for specific operational environments/requirements, e.g., providing 24×7 services, supporting communities of mobile/partially connected services, etc.,
Collaborative: promote collaboration between academic institutions, industry, and communities of users,
Reporting real‐world experience: focus on experience with service‐oriented architectures deployed in production settings.
Workshop Co‐Chairs
Michel Cezon, INRIA, Grenoble, France
Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Workshop Proposal Submission
Workshop proposals should not exceed three pages, and should include the following elements:
-a description of the workshop topic and the issues on which the workshop will focus,
-the motivation of why the workshop is of interest at this time,
-a description of the workshop format (including the number of anticipated accepted papers), the workshop duration,
-brief bios of the organizers.
Workshop proposals should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sw20100
Submission guidelines and format information are available on the conference website.
Important dates
Workshop proposal submission: July 23, 2010 11:59pm, GMT
Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2010 11:59pm, GMT
Publication of CFP’s of accepted Workshops: no later than August 27, 2010
Proceedings
Workshop Post‐Proceedings are expected be published by Springer‐Verlag Services Science series.
More information? For additional information, consult with Workshop Chairs (workshop2010@servicewave.eu) www.servicewave.eu
Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals):
Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals): The IBM Portugal Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Enterprise Engineering and Management (EEM) aims at being a preeminent applied research center of excellence in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), dedicated to foster collaboration among academia, industry, government, and IBM Research Laboratories, transfer scientific breakthroughs and innovations into IBM research… http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas/ Currently, they have a Call for Proposal for Individual Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Grants http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas/announcements.html
Service systems – special districts
Governance Within The Lines: How many different types of service system entities exist in the world. From a service science perspective, it is important to know about the many, many different types of service system entities, because they can own property and take legal actions in the world in many different ways. From a governance perspective, we have heard of towns, cities, counties, states, and nations…. but what about special districts? http://www.csda.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=41 Counties provide many types of service to citizens, and special districts do as well – how are they similar and how are they different — who has made the best study of the different types of service system entities in the world and their rights? http://www.csac.counties.org/images/users/1/Services%20Provided%20to%20All%20County%20Residents.pdf
Short takes 7/19
Disruptive Service Innovation Survey (UK) http://mbs.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_6l1po7WlWGdNFti
Grand Challenge Summit (UK) Week of Sept 22 University of Cambridge http://tinyurl.com/26jzzu5
Annotated Service Science On-Line Bibliography (WW) http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/ssme/refmenu.asp
Innovation in Large Service Systems (WW) http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ilss/
Hospitality 2.0 (WW) Service Design http://auroralahti.blogspot.com/2010/07/hospitality-20-intro-and-community.html
Trillion Dollar Transportation Challenge (US) Churchill Club talk http://tinyurl.com/2cgv38q
2010 State of the Future (WW) http://millennium-project.org/millennium/SOF2010-English.pdf
Reframers Unleash Innovation (WW) http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/how_reframers_are_unleashing_a.html
Book: Normann, Richard (2001) Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape. Wiley, Chichester, New Sussex
Agents at Your Service (MIT Press) http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/PBE/Your-Wish/
Systems Community of Inquiry (WW) http://syscoi.com/commons/
New Science Education Framework (US) http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html
Community of Academic Technology Staff (US) http://cats.cdl.edu/
CA State Employee Pay (US) http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/
Management Science for the Knowledge Economy (US) http://www.basex.com
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
Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China
Tianjin Eco-city: Gloria Ng, who leads Service Innovation Practice, at the Institute for Systems Science at NUS Singapore told me about the Tianjin Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China: “We aim to build an economically thriving, environmentally friendly, socially harmonious and resource-efficient city. The key concept underpinning the planning and development of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is the “three harmonies” – man living in harmony with man, now and for future generations; man living in harmony with economic activities; and man living in harmony with the environment.” http://www.tianjinecocity.gov.sg/ She also mentioned that Singapore recently hosted the World Cities Summit: http://www.worldcities.com.sg/
Karlsruhe Service Research Institute
KSRI Mission: Rudi Studer (KIT, Germany) wrote about KSRI. The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) develops concepts, methods and technologies for innovators and decision makers, to generate and utilize economic value in a more and more “services-led economy”. We are employing a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to solve business relevant problems along the dimensions “people”, “organization”, “information” and “technology”. See http://www.ksri.kit.edu