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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. My mailbox wonders why companies still don't know me well enough to send less junk mail.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., computers & peripherals, electronic equipment & components, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g.,

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Building Data Discovery into Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. I started my career as what would now be called a data analyst, focused on network performance, essentially trying to get more bits from calling to called party.

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When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Some of us are totally immersed and intrigued by what can be accomplished in a wireless world, (including all the cool toys that come along with it). It is the core facet of how humanity has operated since history began; to share resources, to learn, and to instruct in kind. There really isn’t anything new about that at all, in effect.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business Review

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.