The Flip Side of the COIN
One of the more interesting challenges working at EMC is the amount of global university research and innovation that occurs at facilities around the world: Russia, Ireland/Europe, Israel, Egypt, China,…
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Cooperstown Symposium
Yesterday was Day 1 of the 23rd Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. I'm speaking Friday about "The Digital Preservation of Baseball". I discovered the conference during a…
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Cloud Masters
Irish Education minister Ruairi Quinn today announced the industry's first MSc and BSc in Cloud Computing at the Cork Institute of Technology. One of the main reasons for launching the…
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The Effects of Sociometric Feedback
I have written several posts about the research that is being done on group collaboration at MIT Media Lab. I attended a dissertation given by Taemie Kim: Enhancing Distributed Collaboration…
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Replicating Your Friends
Several weeks ago I read two interesting blog posts about the EBS failure. Jeff Darcy gave the developer's view of failures in distributed systems, while Robin Harris provided a great…
Posted inGlobal Innovation
Global Collaboration and Visual Feedback
In a previous post I highlighted how sociometric badges can be worn by group collaborators. These badges were tested by Taemie Kim of MIT as part of her PhD research.…
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Robots Invade Vegas
For those of you attending EMC World, it's time to vote for "most innovative product". Out of all the announcements this week, which do you consider to be the most…
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The VNXe Fastball
After having worked on the VNXe for several years, it will be a pleasure to watch the product hit the floor of EMC World for the first time. In order…
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Framing the Cloud Portfolio
In a previous post I discussed a strategy for establishing research directions between EMC’s Cairo Center of Excellence (COE) and Egyptian Universities and national technologists. I used the diagram below…
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Sociometric Badges
In a previous post I introduced a PhD dissertation by MIT’s Taemie Kim: Enhancing Distributed Collaboration Using Sociometric Feedback. The announcement for the dissertation summarizes the topic quite well: Results…