August 24, 2010
Kinda like standing in front of a development team, huh?
There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
August 19, 2010
Not too complicated for words.
Increasing the transparency, speed, and reliability of information flow among researchers in integrated project teams is a critical step in improving research productivity.
August 10, 2010
Shanghai: A Cacophony of People (Update)
China has been described as a threatening competitor, a waking giant, a polluting behemoth, and a producer of cheap and unreliable goods. To me, China is a reflection of New York City at the beginning of the 20th Century.
July 26, 2010
Robots
It’s time to dust off your copy of I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.
July 13, 2010
World (Cup) Cultures
In spite of the many differences among world cultures, there are at least two similarities.
July 8, 2010
Life’s Too Short
“The demand that I make of my reader,” James Joyce said, “is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.”
July 1, 2010
A Drug Is Not a Jet Plane, or Is It?
The innovations of model-based drug development must be implemented with full attention paid to its effects on the upstream and downstream components of the larger enterprise.
June 9, 2010
Sense and Sensibilities of Science
If you want to understand process formalization, read Jane Austen.
April 28, 2010
Mesmerizing Machine
As you study the blue ball machine, it is easy to see how you can be mesmerized by a process that doesn’t actually do anything.
April 28, 2010
Disambiguation
Disambiguation means to remove ambiguity. It seems to me that the smarter the people and the more complex the topic, the more disambiguation is necessary.
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