This column originally appeared in Forbes.
Dexter Roberts wrote recently in BusinessWeek that more than Meanwhile executives at nearly a hundred multinationals recently told my firm that their biggest challenge for growth is recruiting and retaining talent. At more than one-third of the big businesses we talked to they said their annual employee turnover is [...]
Supercomputing on a cell phone
September 2, 2010 by Editor
(David Knezevic and Dinh Bao Phuong Huynh)
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed software that can simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels — on an ordinary smartphone.
Although the current version of the [...]
Intel and Nokia Establish First Joint Research Laboratory at University of Oulu
Oulu, Finland – August 24 – University of Oulu announced today that Intel and Nokia will establish their first collaborative research laboratory in Oulu, Finland. The Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center, Oulu will be located in the Center for Internet Excellence (CIE) at [...]
In Finland’s Footsteps
If We’re (the US ) So Rich and Smart, Why Aren’t We More Like Them?
By Robert G. Kaiser
Sunday, August 7, 2005
Life in Finland, one of the world’s best functioning welfare states and least known success stories, can be complicated. Consider the dilemma confronting parents looking for day care for a 4-year-old daughter in [...]
The Finnish miracle
No shoes but plenty of service: The surprising features of the world’s top-performing schools.
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By Hank Pellissier
Can you name a famous person in Finland? Historical episode? Imposing landmark? Foodstuff? It’s not that Finland doesn’t have its share of Olympic athletes, brilliant architects, and technology moguls, but “Nokia” is all most people can mutter when [...]
We have seen many companies set out to conquer the US, brimming with confidence and
convinced that they will be the next big THING in their industry, riding the US expansion to
world domination…Unfortunately, in high tech (as opposed to Bio-Tech), there are very few
real success stories to tell. The ten reasons below give some insights as to the reasons.
By Joel I. Klein, Michael Lomax and Janet Murguía
Friday, April 9, 2010
In the debate over how to fix American public education, many believe that schools alone cannot overcome the impact that economic disadvantage has on a child, that life outcomes are fixed by poverty and family circumstances, and that education doesn’t work until other problems [...]
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
In the 1950s and ’60s, artificial-intelligence researchers saw themselves as trying to uncover the rules of thought
Cell phone exposure may protect against and reverse Alzheimer’s disease
January 6, 2010
The millions of people who spend hours every day on a cell phone may have a new excuse for yakking. A surprising new study in mice provides the first evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may actually protect [...]
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