Category: Innovation

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. 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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The Future of Desalination

In a recent post, I discussed efforts to harness the power of the ocean’s waves to generate electricity [Harnessing the Power of Waves]. Scientists and engineers are also looking to the oceans

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Harnessing the Power of Waves

As long as people have turned their eyes from the shore to the sea, they have seen and recognized the power of waves as they relentlessly hurl themselves toward the shoreline. I

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The Comeback of Electric Cars

Conspiracy theorists have long rumored that solitary inventors, toiling in their garages and basements, have created technologies that can make internal combustion engines (choose your favorite): (1) run on water, (2) achieve

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Creating a Sustainable Future

Nearly two decades ago, MIT professor Peter Senge wrote a best-selling business book that introduced the notion of “learning organizations.” [The Fifth Discipline, New York: Doubleday, 1990]. “As he describes it, a

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R&D in the Intelligence Community

This past April I wrote a blog entitled Happy Birthday DARPA that focused on an article celebrating that agency’s 50th anniversary. DARPA has been a remarkably successful agency with a notable number

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Changing the World from the Edges

As I have noted in previous posts on innovation, many of the most interesting ideas come from the edges of various disciplines, especially when those edges butt against the edges of other

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Machine — Heal Thyself

One desired feature of a resilient system is the ability to heal itself. Some animals escape from danger by shedding their tails once in a predator’s grasp. This strategy would only work

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A Marketplace for Ideas

In March 2007, I wrote a post entitled Dating Game for Innovation. The focus of that post was UTEK, a technology matchmaking company that provides researchers an outlet for their ideas and

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The Race for a 100 mpg Car

Last month I wrote a post about Google teaming with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor a contest to send robots to the moon [Reaching for the Moon]. The X Prize Foundation,

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