Research Question
Ravtosh Bal
Jim Flowers
Fang Xiao
Rough Draft
In the past 5 years, two separate efforts to improve the performance of Georgia students in STEM subjects have been executed by the Georgia Department of Education and the University System of Georgia with minimal cooperation or collaboration. This apparent conflict between two separately administered programs attempting to improve [...]
Is the Intellectual Property system (patents, copyrights, etc). The world has moved from an era of individual inventors (see Thomas Hughes: American Genesis) to one which creates by cooperation across cultures, across national boundaries and across coporate boundaries. Robert Scoble interviews IBM’s IP attorney — and he emphasizes this point.
If we don’t adjust [...]
PEW Foundation has a new study on state investment strategies regarding innovation.
Investing billions of dollars in everything from nanotechnology to health care and agricultural science R&D funds are being used by states as diverse as New York, Minnesota, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia and Arizona. California alone has committed $3 billion to a 10-year investment in [...]
Sure is dusty round here…
Scoble has posted a great interview with Irving Wladawsky-Berger.
After the session adjourns Sine Die (supposedly April 20, 2007), I have some things to say.
Time, or the measurement thereof, has been an important tool for the military and governments for centuries. Congress in its infinite wisdom has decided to change the date for daylight savings time switching to March 11 — 4 weeks earlier than usual (this was done in 2005 — so don’t blame the new majority for [...]
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
I was interviewed by a fifth grader who has collected interviews with a number of state legislators…
Funny, a fifth grader has figured out the most effective way to show people what legislators are doing and thinking — and companies like Cox, Gannett and others still can’t figure it out…
My money is on Jhonny
Dr. Milton Friedman addressed ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) last month. CSPAN saw fit to air his remarks which I saw on cable yesterday.
Dr. Friedman mentioned how important it was for citizens in a democracy to possess a basic functional literacy about how their government worked, the principles upon which the government was founded, and [...]
LA Times article highlights how uninformed Congress is when addressing key technology issues this year. The following is a candidate for the “Understatement” of the Year award:
“To our industry and our customers, very important issues are being decided today in Congress,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global public policy. “Much of the concern [...]
