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last update: June 26

Doug Anderson
Doug@RicciStreet.net
Bistro: Doug

Amr Abbas
Gary Constantino

Kevina Collins
Tim Dove
Keith Gaume
Taheerh Hulett
Katherine Joyce
Anne Schule
Hugo Sun
Tera White

Sean Collins
Tara Doster
Jon Gill
Colleen Hunter
Rick Mariano
Lemar Ward

Amr Abbas Amr102573@aol.com	Kevina Collins kevinacollins3@hotmail.com
Sean Collins seanbcollins@yahoo.com	Gary Constantino gc8734@chsbuffalo.org
Tara Doster taradoster at hotmail.com Scarlet	Tim Dove IcedTD9@aol.com
Keith Gaume Keithgaume@Yahoo.com	Jonathan Gill jgill at medaille.edu NOT more of the same
Taheerh Hulett robiah104@adelphia.net	Colleen Hunter colleenkhunter@hotmail.com Bistro: Colleeflower22
Katherine Joyce katherine_joyce1973@yahoo.com	Rick Mariano Rmariano@mower.com
Anne Schule als92280@aol.com	Hugo Sun hugo_sun@hotmail.com
Lemar Ward mrward54@hotmail.com	Tera White tlwbonas05@yahoo.com

frontiers of technology

Each of you will have most of an hour to help the rest of us learn about your future technology. Learn more

July 19

Five time slots for you doesn't leave a time in the middle for dinner, so I scheduled this for dinner later rather than earlier. I don't have a problem, however, with breaking for dinner after the second presenter if everyone is hungry.

[ title of training module ] For a provocative title, see Rick's on Aug 9 below.

imaging with a transparent object

MIT scientists create fiber webs that see
by Eve Downing
MIT press release, July 6, 2006

In a radical departure from conventional lens-based optics, MIT scientists have developed a sophisticated optical system made of mesh-like webs of light-detecting fibers. The fiber constructs, which have a number of advantages over their lens-based predecessors, are currently capable of measuring the direction, intensity and phase of light (a property used to describe a light wave) without the lenses, filters or detector arrays that are the classic elements of optical systems such as eyes or cameras.

August 2

August 9

A Series of Tubes - The Movie

new feature at CNN.com - iReport

CNN Exchange invites YOU to connect with the news: Share your stories, your pictures, your videos wherever you see the I-Report logo.

Note that you can use your cell phone to send in the pictures.

Someone commented the other evening about the strength with which I profess my point of view. I would like to clearly articulate the ideas that I push the hardest because I think they're the hardest to grasp.

I don't want you to come out of this MBA program able only to run a business profitably. I also want you to be change agents. That means that you can take broken things and fix them. It also means that you can take things that aren't broken, break them, and then either fix them or replace them.

Our progress as a species, to say nothing of our competitiveness as a country, depends on repeated disruption and constant change. I hope, throughout your careers, that you will be part of the forces driving both disruption and change.

Can the U.S. remain competitive?
by Robert Samuelson
Buffalo News, August 9, 2006

One problem with these debates is that competitiveness is a vague term.

If it means keeping the lead in every industry where we once led, we're doomed. ...

Similarly, if competitiveness requires the United States to maintain its present share of the world economy, we are also probably doomed. ...

The point: global economic growth - something the United States encourages - erodes America's dominance. Technology, talent and wealth spread everywhere.

One possible "competitiveness" definition is the ability of countries to stay ahead in developing new industries. By this standard, the United States is doing well.

Are we safer and more secure with the Internet?

A New Enemy Gains on the U.S.
by Thom Shanker
NY Times, July 30, 2006

“We are now into the first great war between nations and networks,” said John Arquilla, a professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a leading analyst of net warfare. “This proves the growing strength of networks as a threat to American national security.”

In a talk that Mr. Arquilla calls Net Warfare 101, he describes how traditional militaries are organized in a strict hierarchy, from generals down to privates. In contrast, networks flatten the command structure. They are distributed, dispersed, agile, mobile, improvisational. This makes them effective, and hard to track and target.

A net war differs from all previous wars, which were about brute confrontation of forces, mass on mass — what Matthew Arnold called bloody contests of “ignorant armies” meeting on the “darkling plain.”

Net war is the battle of the many, organized in small units, against conventional militaries that organize their many into large units. These network forces are not ignorant. They are computer literate, propaganda and Internet savvy, and capable of firing complicated weapons to great effect.

This article is not available online for free, but you can learn more at:

Understanding Fourth Generation War
by William S. Lind

Fourth Generation Warfare - a terrific set of links at the end of this article

The War on Terror
by Jay Dixit
Wired, August 2006

Shell-shocked troops are coming back from Iraq with snakes in their heads. A new virtual reality treatment offers hope for vets. ...

The designers also used realistic noises: An A-10 plane sounds different than a Black Hawk helicopter; a fractured bullet should buzz, while an intact bullet should whistle. Subjects also stand on a “VR platform,” a carpeted wooden box equipped with two metal diaphragms called BaseShakers. When a Black Hawk flies overhead in the game, patients hear the hacking of its rotors and the snarl of its engine. When mortars explode, the Base-Shakers vibrate so hard they blur vision.

Then there’s the smell machine: a TiVo-sized box containing eight pressurized chambers loaded with small capsules. A compressor shoots air into the chambers, fans create a breeze, and the scent wafts in. Rizzo and his team licensed seven smells from perfumeries: garbage, weapons fire, cordite, Iraqi spices, diesel fuel, burning rubber, and body odor. (They’re hoping to add cooked lamb.)

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

As for NaturallySpeaking: if you’re already using Version 8, it’s probably not worth upgrading to Version 9. Most people will find the changes to be too few and too subtle.

But if you’re among the thousands who have abandoned dictation software in the past, it’s a different story. Version 9 is a stronger argument than ever that for anyone who can’t or doesn’t like to type, dictation software is ready for prime time; the state of this art has attained nearly “Star Trek” polish.

Meet the Remote-Control Self
by Tim Hornyak
Wired, July 20, 2006

Android Clone
Wired News, July 20, 2006

Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro clones himself, android-style. His incredibly lifelike mechanical double, "Geminoid HI-1," sometimes takes his place in meetings and classes.

HRD rubbishes MIT's laptop scheme for kids
Akshaya Mukul
Times of India, July 3, 2006

The HRD ministry has rejected the idea of 'one-laptop-per-child' (OLPC) being aggressively marketed by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Laboratory. "India must not allow itself to be used for experimentation with children in this area," the ministry has said.

Public Policy Debate

Learn more about this debate

Post your position statement at the Bistro so that the person rebutting you has something concrete to work with.

July 26

position statements

position statements at Bistro

These are 10-minute statements. If you read yours, you should prepare at least 1,500 words, probably closer to 2,000 along with images (not text) for us to look at while we listen. (Old fogey alert: an 8 1/2 x 11 typewritten page has about 300 words. Thus, you should prepare at least 5 - 7 pages.)

August 7

Rebuttals and Discussion

position statements at Bistro

These are 2- or 3-minute statements. You should feel free to write it out and read it to us, preferably while it's scrolling slowly by on the wall.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Roundtable

last updated: July 17

1. your expectations of the course
2. describe your future
3. Edge, past inventions
4. Debate positions
5. Debate rebuttals