Monthly Archives: May 2012

What’s Education Worth in a Sputnik Moment?

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

President Obama said something about trying to duplicate the Sputnik concern and improve education in his State of the Union address. Andrew Hacker, co-author of “Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What … Continue reading →

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Social Networking the Old Fashioned Way – at a Pub

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

Richard Holway, a UK IT analyst and a founder of  TechMarketView, recalls the pre-Facebook days in his latest newsletter. “At the weekend a few old technologists like me got together and discussed the ‘good old days’ of the 1960s. How … Continue reading →

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Tony Blair’s Memoir — Fascinating, Quirky and Often Funny

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

This book surprised me — the  reviews I read ranged from mediocre to hostile, but I found  Tony Blair in excellent explanatory form, describing his thinking of New Labour, his efforts to get the party to adopt the ideas, and … Continue reading →

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Wisconsin’s Aurora Uses Teradata To Improve Patient Outcomes

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Tom Groenfeldt

Like other industries, health care initially used technology to automate time-consuming processes such as billing, registration and scheduling.  “What organizations discovered is that, as an indirect result of operational systems, they had collected huge amounts of data on the business … Continue reading →

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