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Emerging Tech: Jeff Hawkins reinvents artificial intelligence
Jeff Hawkins has a lot on his mind-not least, a new theory about how the brain works. And he’s confident…
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Commentary: Shadow World
It seems that the pirates and counterfeiters of goods and intellectual property are moving up the corporate food chain—quickly. The…
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Commentary: Municipal Wireless on the Rise
This morning the New York Times reported that Suffolk County, on Long Island, is planning a free wireless service similar…
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Opinion: Why IT Integration is Critical to Merger Success
The colossal merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in 1996 created the nation’s biggest railroad, one that today covers…
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Commentary: Net Neutrality Suffers a Defeat in Washington
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee voted to allow big telecom companies, such as Verizon and…
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Managing Multicultural Teams
Though well-intentioned, some attempts to bridge cultural gaps on global teams just result in creating more sophisticated stereotypes. So say…
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Global IT: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Last fall, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Adam Smith Institute’s “Corporate IT Strategies in Russia”…
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Windows Vista and Productivity Implications of the User Experience
Usability has always been a big—and sometimes badly handled—issue in information systems design. Ever since Apple launched the current generation…
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GM’s Ralph Szygenda has the Biggest Stick in IT
In 1996, when Ralph Szygenda took over the top IT spot at General Motors Corp., he was the company’s very…