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 Coming Age of WiTricity?

As the world becomes more connected, its reliance on electrical power also increases. Currently, getting power to devices requires either wires — strung on poles above ground or running through pipes buried

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Latest Solar Power Developments

Global warming and development are inextricably tied together. The Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Accord because it thought it would hurt the U.S. economy. Although the administration is looking more favorably on

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Innovation and Security

Getting Department of Defense contracts has always been good for one’s business. But since President Eisenhower warned about the growing power of the military-industrial complex, people have generally believed that only large

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Where is My Replicator?

Science fiction has often been a catalyst for ideas. One of the futuristic gadgets carried aboard the various incarnations of the Starship Enterprise was its famous replicator. Fiction is quickly becoming fact

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Brandenburg’s Gait

When people think about the giants of the music industry, the name Karlheinz Brandenburg doesn’t often come quickly to mind for most of us. Brandenburg, however, will undoubtedly march into the history

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Southern Cal Gets Innovative

The University of Southern California has tapped Krisztina Holly, the founding director of MIT’s Deshpande Center — which connects MIT’s innovators with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to make ideas a commercial reality

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The Age of Entrepreneurs

According to Robert E. Litan, vice president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., the United States has never been more adventurous when it comes to starting businesses [“Innovators

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Service as Science

In hard science fields like math and physics, snickers are often heard whenever political “science” or social “science” are mentioned. Those softer sciences are about to be joined by a new discipline

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