As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. James Dewar invented the vacuum flask in 1892 to keep laboratory gases cold. […]
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What I like about jet engines
Rolls-Royce{{1}} (the engineering company, not the car manufacturer) is an interesting firm. From near disaster in the 70s, when the company was on the brink […]
Continue readingBPM is not a programming challenge
Get a few beers into a group of developers these days and it’s not uncommon for the complaints to start flowing about BPM (Business Process […]
Continue readingTea bags: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. A thrifty tea merchant from New York named Thomas Sullivan is credited with […]
Continue readingPenicillin: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks. The penicillin mold was a pest, not a resource. Backteriologists went to great lengths to protect their bacterial […]
Continue readingWhat is the role of government in a Web 2.0 world?
What will be the role of government in a post Web 2.0 world? I doubt it’s what a lot of us predict, given society’s poor track record […]
Continue readingInformation overload
We’re drowning in information, as I’ve written about before, both in the context of Business Intelligence and Innovation (whatever that is). An interesting blog post […]
Continue readingSecurity theater and the value of information
There’s an interesting post over at Bruce Schnier’s blog where he discusses where security did, and didn’t, work with the Christmas underwear bomber incident. As […]
Continue readingWhy scanning more data will not (necessarily) help BI
I pointed out the other day, that we seem to be at a tipping point for BI. The quest for more seems to be loosing […]
Continue readingIs BI really the next big thing?
I think we’re at a tipping point with BI. Yes, it makes sense that BI should be the next big thing in the new year, […]
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