Jul 23, 2009
Today, Norman AUGUSTINE, former CEO of the main US Defense Company LOCKHEED MARTIN, came to give a talk at NUS on the challenges that Developed Nations are facing.
After introducing with the fact that the technological advances recently have suppressed a lot of distance between people, he went on saying that a lot of work in developed nations is being outsourced.
If outsourcing reduces costs for a given company in ...
Jun 18, 2009
Ok, if you workout by doing the same stuff you find on all websites: forget about all that, it's bullshit. I mean it may work but it's obsolete and inefficient. You need to train smartly basing your action on science and research rather than recommendations of popular gorillas. When you look like him you are on the right path:
Apart from the 1-set to failure workout method, heavily described ...
Nov 17, 2008
Scientific journals, even the most popular peer-reviewed ones, remain human organizations and therefore cannot avoid the human imperfection in rationality.
The process of peer-reviewing consists of having other contributors of a research journal read and criticise on your proposed article prior to publication. Usually several researchers are solicited and hold the responsibility of making sure content and writing style meet the expectations of scientific research :
proposing a form of ...
Nov 9, 2008
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Research Asia organize every year a conference called "Computing in the 21st century". The subtitle was "New Horizon of Computing".
This year's version had no less than 3 Turing award winners (Turing awards are something like the Nobel Prize of computing), the Senior Vice President of Microsoft, and a Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia and at the same time IEEE fellow (a very prestigious ...
Nov 6, 2008
There is a lot of buzz on Youtube on what is referred to as being a permanent source of energy: Perendev or Bedini motors. The mere idea of "free energy" and perpetual movement necessarily sounds idiotic to any scientist or researcher, yet the large popularity of any topic always leaves a glimpse of doubt to even the most sceptical and rigorous scientists.
A plethora of videos indeed show motors ...
Nov 5, 2008
While sorting my desk I found back a summary that I had written based on the excellent yet simple NSF recommendations on writing a Research Proposal : Twelve Steps to a Winning Research Proposal by George Hazelrigg.
To a large extent, this advice can be applied to business proposals as well, aiming for a contest or a grant.
Here is an even shorter version:
Show you have researched previous work.
Your proposed ...