Instructions 1. Use '+' and '-' buttons to make the corresponding patches above the buttons lighter or darker. 2. Create a visually equal spaced gray ramp from black on the left to white on the right. That is the jumps in lightness between neighbors should be roughly equal and the ramp should be getting progressively lighter. 3. Click on the 'Plot' button to see your results(black) plotted versus the world wide gamma(red).
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From time to time I have been posting about the research process itself, i.e., research policy. Today I will just post two links to two other blogs with recent posts on this subject.
Jon Stokes writes on ars technica on paying for secrets: national security versus tech innovation, while Neil Gunther writes on Performance Agora on USA High Tech R&D Trending Down.
My post about print services appears to have caused some confusion. While I prefer to get feedback in the form of comments, so others can also comment and a dialogue is established, here are some clarifications — at the risk of making things even muddier.
Computer science — or informatics, as it is called more appropriately in Europe — has a less linear progress history than other technologies. Indeed, many a breakthrough technology was forgotten only to be reinvented several decades later. I had already posted on concurrent programming (in the comments) and color encoding.
In big corporations the hand often does not know where the foot is and then shoots itself in the foot. Now I am finally able to get at my email after my old mailbox was secretly deleted over two weeks before I got access to the new mailbox. There I found a postcard from Albuquerque I would like to share with you. It was sent by John McCann, who shot it on his HP PhotoSmart C945 camera and kindly gave permission to reproduce it in this post.
As reader juadlam suggests in his or her comments to my previous post on the book about Fujio Mitarai, the comments and questions raised require a new post.
This is the third review in this series I am calling 301.7—terrorism @ home, and as promised it is about the workplace. In the previous two reviews we visited The sociopath next door and Without conscience. In science, the Nineties were the decade of the brain, and so much progress was made—think for example functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)—Dr. Hare's latest book, written with Dr. Babiak, gives us a much more precise picture of the psychopath than Without conscience. Yet, there is still no other cure than capital punishment while concomitantly we have made our organizations more inviting for psychopaths.
An article senior editor Roger Parloff wrote in yesterday’s Fortune magazine had quite a bit of echo in the blogosphere during the last two days. Recently there have been some other events related to intellectual assets in color science that suggest we may be at the verge of a sea change in intellectual asset management.
In industrial and government research organizations there are often religious wars on what tools researchers should have in their toolboxes. In part this is due to the onerous purchasing processes, which tend to have researchers cling to whatever tools they have in a sort of a conservative reflex—need to pound a nail? Use your shoe! In academia the situation is healthier, because generous educational discounts allow researchers to use whatever tools allow them to accomplish their job most efficiently by the deadline.
A few minutes ago the IS&T announced its 2007 Honors and Awards. Read on for a list of the recipients.
Judging from your feedback, my posts on concurrent programming, “Are hyperthreads good for you?” and “How many cores are good for you?” have been of interest to you, so here is a post on human multitasking.
The first post on this topic was my view, the second post was that of company executives, and this third post is that of grantors. We will see how their role has become more difficult and when they should blow the whistle.
Kemal sent a pointer to a special report in The Economist's latest issue on the rise and fall of corporate R&D with a different reason than the end of cold war. It also has interviews with our supreme leaders.
When I look out of my window at HP Labs in the Stanford Industrial Park, I can see other research labs, like Google Labs, IBM Almaden, Intel Research, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, SRI, Sun Labs, Yahoo! Research, and others. When I walk around the terrace, I see more, like FXPAL, PARC, Ricoh Innovations, and so on…
