Czerwinski on Vizualization Displays to the Right, Displays to the Left, Displays Everywhere. (Issue 1 - January 18 - February 1, 2005 Ken Sevcik on Performance Evaluation The Origin of Queueing Network Models — A Ubiquity Interview with Ken Sevcik of the University of Toronto. (Issue 3 - February 2 - February 9, 2005) Anita McGahan on Industry Evolution Why Some Breakthrough Ideas Never Pay Off (Issue 4 - February 9 - February 15, 2005) Ken Robinson on Telecom Policy Loose Confederations of Warring Tribes: An interview with Washington communications attorney Kenneth G. Robinson, editor and publisher of Telecommunications Policy Review (Issue 5 - February 16 - February 22, 2005) Leonard and Swap on 'Deep Smarts' "The first issue that any organization has to face is the identification of the deep." (Issue 6 - February 23 - March 1, 2005) Microsoft's Hong-Jiang Zhang: The Process of Product Innovation If you're working on actual products you can't say that 90 percent is good enough and just move to something else. (Issue 7 - March 1 - 8, 2005) Joseph Konstan on Human-Computer Interaction Recommender Systems, Collaboration, and Social Good (Issue 10 - March 24 - April 4, 2005) Cerf's Up Again! — A New Ubiquity Interview with Vint Cerf "I suppose you could say that it was a lot nicer when we were a more homogeneous community and all we cared about was research. On the other hand, I was a very strong supporter of commercializing the Internet system, as far back as 1988, because in the absence of doing that it wouldn't spread very far, and I felt strongly that it was important for Internet to be more widely accessible." (Issue 12 - April 12 - 19, 2005) You Should Use Both Sides of Your Brain, Right? Author Dan Pink argues that "nowadays, the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't is going to be mastery of these abilities that are more characteristic of the right hemisphere — artistry, empathy, big picture thinking. Those are the sorts of abilities that I think are really going to matter the most, not only in our individual career success, but also in our personal satisfaction." (Issue 15 - May 3 - 10, 2005) Building Smarter Architect and industry analyst Jerry Laiserin is a leading advocate for "building smarter" — the application of information technology to transform the way the built environment is designed, constructed and operated. (Issue 18 - May 24 - 31, 2005) Immersed in the Future: Randy Pausch on the Future of Education Immersed in the Future: Randy Pausch on the Future of Education "Enrollments are down 23 percent in the computer science discipline. And at the top echelon, people aren't too bothered by it, because we will be the last to be impacted, right? But this is a huge, huge problem. And it's a huge problem for the country." Pausch is Professor, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University, and Design Director of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), a joint initiative of the School of Computer Science and the College of Fine Arts. (Issue 20 - June 8 - 15, 2005) Richard Field on Technology and Commerce Attorney and legal consultant Richard Field says: "Technology is driving things, new invention is driving things... And business has always come up with new models to take advantage of new techniques, and the Internet is no different. Any other science area that we're dealing with is no different, in genetics, or whatever else." (Issue 22 - June 22 - 29, 2005) Kleinrock on Nomadic Computing Leonard Kleinrock, who developed the mathematical theory of packet-switching, has a dramatic vision of the future: "I should be able to talk to the environment. It could respond with voice, or perhaps displays pop up or holograms. Maybe there's a keyboard around. Maybe there's some kind of other input device, or output device. But I want it to be there when I get there and not have to import all of the technology with me. Indeed, we are talking about mass customization, a concept which is certainly enabled with today's technology." (Issue 25 - July 12 - 19, 2005) Chess, China, and Education: A Ubiquity Interview with F-H HSU "I do play chess a little bit, but I'm not good at it. And I pretty much haven't played chess since we played Garry Kasparov. Well, my nephew does actually force me to play him every once in a while. I won't say who wins." (Issue 27 - July 27 - August 2, 2005) What the Dormouse said: An Interview with John Markoff John Markoff is author of the new best-seller "What the Dormouse Said: How the 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry," and is a senior writer for The New York Times. His other books include "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" and "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw." (Issue 29 - August 10 - 16, 2005) A UBIQUITY INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS H. DAVEPORT Thomas H. Davenport, the noted knowledge management and process innovation expert, talks about his just-published "Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers." (Issue 34 - September 21 - 27, 2005) UBIQUITY INTERVIEW: ALAN LENTON ON GAMES Noted UK game-designer Alan Lenton talks about his award-winning multi-player game Federation and discusses the sociology and psychology of gaming. (Issue 37 - Octomber 12 - 18, 2005) WILLIAM P. DUNK ON THE NEED FOR COLLABORATION In a Ubiquity interview, management consultant and futurist William P. Dunk says: "Besides the brain in one's head, there's also a brain in the gut that controls the digestive system and so forth. It's a fairly serious brain. I suspect that we're going to turn out to have more semi-brains, when we look at the body even more thoroughly, and we're going to conclude that the human system is the right model for man-made systems, because of the human system's qualities of durability, ruggedness, and resistance to attack. What collaboration is about is distributed intelligence, and I think that systems and governments and companies are all in such a degree of gridlock now that we desperately need to have broad-based intelligence coming into play everywhere." (Issue 39 - Octomber 26 - November 1, 2005) PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AT NEUMONT Neumont University co-founder and CEO Scott McKinley says the most innovative aspect of the Neumont curriculum is its focus on student projects: "Our freshmen are on project teams from the very beginning. Their first projects are simple, heavily scaffolded, and commensurate with their novice skills. By the time they enter their last three quarters, they're working on real industry projects for serious names that work with us, including IBM and Microsoft. Overall about 70 percent of our curriculum involves students being mentored on real projects." One enthusiastic admirer of the Neumont approach is ACM past president Peter Denning, who says: "Given that all universities are struggling with declining enrollments, and a total crash in enrollments of women, while Neumont is heading upward, it may be that they have found a business model that is appealing to some of those students who won't go to a regular CS department." (Issue 41 - November 9-15, 2005) HARDWIRING EXCELLENCE: A UBIQUITY INTERVIEW Management expert Quint Studer says, "As far as I'm concerned, if there's only two things you do, number one is make sure you put in a good evaluation system for your managers (one that's objective and weighted, because weighting gives you your prioritization). And number two, make sure you give the leaders enough development and enough skill set to be successful." (Issue 46 - December 14-20, 2005) [Home]   [About Ubiquity]   [The Editors]   Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted ©2005 by the ACM and the individual authors.