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Archive for April, 2007

good morning

Posted by maz on April 30th, 2007

On some days I’d really need a more sophisticated alarm clock, because I can be very wily in the morning trying to find ways to stay in bed Maybe this “catch me if you can” thing could get me up. Credit: Aaron Tang

about vision and stereoscopic reality

Posted by maz on April 29th, 2007

Researchers at the Harvards Medical School aim to construct a brain implant that can restore vision of blind persons. The basic idea is to build a small digital camera that will feed images to an external signal processor worn by the patient. The processor will translate the image from the camera into neural impulses, then [...]

tensions between learning and performance

Posted by maz on April 27th, 2007

On the website of HBS Working Knowledge you can read an interview with Amy Edmondson (Professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School) about the question “Are Great Teams Less Productive?“. In fact [...] there are built-in tensions between learning and performance, which smart organizations must learn to recognize and deal [...]

orbit for creativity

Posted by maz on April 27th, 2007

A group of Stanford students had to make a short video summarizing the topics of their innovation class with Bob Sutton. Gus Bitdinger gives you an insight to what he has learned: [youtube JrlSHZ0anAM nolink] It’s not easy being so large and complex

What is effective?

Posted by maz on April 26th, 2007

Yesterday I had – once again – a discussion about the degree of rigor and other research related aspects of the so called “design science paradigm” which was published by Hevner et al. in the MIS Quarterly. Design science plays an important role in Information Systems research and is supposed to be considered in interaction [...]


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