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Comment on Mathematical Physics by Spoke on Dark Matter and More at an American Physical Society Conference | Thomas J. Buckholtz

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:30:42 +0000

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Comment on Spoke on Dark Matter and More at an American Physical Society Conference by Edgar's Creative

Edgar's Creative — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:37:52 +0000

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Comment on “Being an example” published by Jon Harvey by Jon Harvey (@JonSHarvey)

Jon Harvey (@JonSHarvey) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:56:29 +0000

Good principles Thomas.

Comment on Attended CED program regarding healthcare reform by Hazlett

Hazlett — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:56:44 +0000

I am worried about the Obama Healthcare Plan. Can it create dehabilitating changes to my families life? Will the pros outweigh the negatives?

Comment on Publications / Books / Drafts by Attended TiE event featuring Aneesh Chopra « Thomas J. Buckholtz

Attended TiE event featuring Aneesh Chopra « Thomas J. Buckholtz — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:59:55 +0000

[...] Talk briefly with each of Mr. Anderson and Mr. Wozniak and offer to send each some thoughts about making better matches between learners and sources of learning. (See “Guide Your Learning Initiatives,” via this link.) [...]

Comment on Advise regarding Emergency Preparedness and Response by daveshields

daveshields — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:38:44 +0000

THis is a *very* important area. As a Philipine official, speaking in the aftermath of a catastrophic mudsllide, noted, “No Innovation Matters More Than That Which Saves Lives.”

There is a great lack of software in this area. it is the most hostile environment imaginable for commercial software vendors, so we must rely on open-source technology. For example, the comment above was made about the use of Sahana, an open-source project working in this area.

Paul Currion, funded by a grant from the Gates Foundation, did a survey of this area a few years back.

thanks,dave

Comment on Commented regarding the future of search, at VLAB Web 3.0 event by daveshields

daveshields — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:07:05 +0000

The importance of librarians cannot be overstated. They are they guardians of our past. We read their books to plan and build out future.

This is especially important in the new digital age. The largest library yet created by mankind is the Internet. Google, a company based on advertising, is thus the world’s librarian.

Moreover, Google has, by its success, invalidated such science of libraries as had been created, so we must now define a new science of libraries so we can build new libraries of science.

thanks,dave

Comment on Attended SVII Innovation Society program on Corporate R&D Leadership by daveshields

daveshields — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:01:14 +0000

Jack Schwartz once remarked that work is a signed quanity.

So too is leadership.

For an example of bad leadership, see the recent actions by IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, which, by laying off one in ten IBM Research employees, have literally decimated one of our great national technological treasures.

We will all pay the cost for decades.

One in ten!

What innovations will be delayed, or never found, because of this rash action.

thanks,dave

PS; Re LLNL, I once served Edward Teller dinner at the Caltech Athaneum. He ate alone, as anyone familiar with l’affair Oppenheimer will appreciate. Robert Christy, then Caltech provost, never spoke to Teller after he testified against Oppenheimer.

thanks,dave

Comment on Churchill Club announces ‘information overload’ program by daveshields

daveshields — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:00:02 +0000

While “information overload” is indeed a problem, a much greater problem brought to us by the folks in the Valley is the enormous amount of electricity required to power the servers of Google, Amazon, Yahoo, and so forth.

The largest, most important computer centers used to be located in universities and national laboratories like Los Alamos (LANL) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL). Now they are found near hydroelectric dams and other sources of vast amounts of power.

This suggests the notion of “ecocode,” meaning that we must start measuring the quality of software, including the software written in the Valley, not just by instruction cycles or bytes of memory, but by the impact on the environment when the code is executed.

For example, Google says that each search costs about 0.2g of CO2, so that any improvement in the quality of their code directly lessen mankind’s impact on the environment.

thanks,davve

Comment on Attended neuroeconomics talk by Caltech’s Antonio Rangel by daveshields

daveshields — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:55:29 +0000

I recently attended a CIT alumni event where a professor, whose name I can’t recall as I write this, discussed his research on studying the structure of the brain by doing real-time scans. It was very interesting.

thanks,dave