The pursuit of exascale-class systems was a hot topic at the recent SC09 supercomputing conference. Another massive technology and architectural transition now looms for supercomputing and the IT industry in general. The Energy and Power Challenge is pervasive, affecting every part of the system.  New technologies are needed. MORE >>

Push programs have dominated our lives from our very earliest years.”  “We are literally pushed into educational systems designed to anticipate our needs over twelve or more years of schooling and our key needs for skills over the rest of our lives.  In this kind of world, access and search have important, but increasingly limited, utility. MORE >>

We have generally viewed services in contrast to what they are not: products, manufacturing or the industrial sector of the economy, rather than what they are.  Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems, for example, enable engineers to design significantly more complex objects that they otherwise would have been able to.  Kushida. MORE >>

Everyone pretty much agrees that there is a transformation of historical proportions underway, propelling us from the industrial society of the past two centuries to an information society that's in the process of being defined.  Complex Systems Economic Issues Management and Leadership Political Issues Society and Culture MORE >>

Since the advent of the financial crisis around five years ago, we have been searching for answers to these very important questions.  Technology has been replacing workers and improving productivity ever since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 18th century.  But, our fear is that this time is different.  MORE >>