Value of Research

Microsoft SVP of Research, Rick Rashid, offers insights into the value of basic research, which is having the capability to confront and solve future challenges. ...

... "If you go back to the writings of Vannevar Bush that really were the basis of what became the U.S. investment in the National Science Foundation and the sort of research and development infrastructure that we have today, what he wrote about wasn't the technologies that would come out of research that you invested in, it was having a basic research infrastructure so that if something went seriously wrong, you had a new war or you have famine or you had a disease, that you would have the infrastructure of smart people and the wealth of technology you built up over the years that would let you address those issues, let you deal with them, let you survive. " ...

Via Microsoft's Rick Rashid: Day 3 Keynote at Professional Developers Conference

Information On-Demand, a Long Term Perspective

IBM's executive, Ambuj Goyal, provides insights into IBM's long-term plan for the concept of information on-demand. IBM is assembling the pieces of its strategy, including its acquisition of Cognos, to enable the use of information to optimize the enterprise. ...

... "But the journey of optimization has just begun. It will take us in ways we don't understand, even today. We are going after information on demand in real time. " ...

Via InfoWorld: Information on Demand