Tribute to a Friend
March 10, 2008
This past Friday evening Bill Eastburn a close friend of mine and my family passed away. Bill was a personal mentor, an investor in Enterra Solutions® and founding member of the Company’s
Enterra Insights
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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Sovereign Wealth Funds Draw Attention
March 7, 2008
With oil prices remaining sky high (oil topped $105/barrel yesterday) and petro-dollars flowing into oil rich nations, it should come as no surprise that the leaders of those nations are looking to
Looking for a Globalization Strategy
March 6, 2008
In two recent posts, I have focused on how economists and politicians are revisiting past thinking about free trade and globalization [see The Return of Protectionism? and Negative Views of Free Trade].
The Search for Clean Coal
March 5, 2008
Coal is still the fuel of choice to generate electrical power for many nations; including some of its greatest polluters like the U.S., China and India. One of the reasons is that
The AIR is getting Blurry with Clouds — Computing that is
March 4, 2008
In an earlier post [The Coming Age of Cloud Computing], I focused on an article that described how a collaboration between IBM and Google aimed at teaching graduate students more about cloud
Reaching for the Moon
March 3, 2008
It’s been a while since I’ve written about a contest aimed at sparking innovation. The New York Times reports that Google is teaming with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor a contest
Nerds get Curves
February 29, 2008
The cinematic stars of all those 1980s class B movies about nerds portrayed peculiar, weak, socially outcast, but bright, young males. They defined for a generation what a nerd or geek was
Shades of Blackness
February 28, 2008
Occasionally a story about something far afield from your normal range of activities and interests catches your eye and draws you in. I found an article about scientists developing their own little
Negative Views of Free Trade
February 27, 2008
It is no secret that free trade and globalization have their critics — just listen to the presidential debates between Clinton and Obama. Among other critics of free trade is Ha-Joon Chang,
National Integration and Minority Rights
February 26, 2008
As you might be aware, Kosovo recently declared its independence from Serbia; a move immediately recognized by the United States. As a result, thugs attacked the U.S. embassy in Serbia and riots
