Engineering
For many of us, leaving our alma maters was a relief or even a good riddance — what a joy to graduate and move on. Over the years the primary connection to the campus may have been sports related without much thought about academic roots. As time goes on that feeling changes and in fact […]
Lehigh
The traffic on the way to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania today was horrible. Makes you want a helicopter — too bad they are unaffordable. The Lehigh University Engineering Advisory Board had a nice reception and dinner. Tomorrow we spend the day focusing on university programs to integrate engineering and business curricula. After dinner I did some benchmarking. […]
Five Percent (2006)
At a speech in New Orleans on Monday I said we were just five percent of the way into the Internet — that of all the things that could simplify our lives and save us time, only five percent of them are here so far. New companies such as Pandora are pressing the envelope to […]
Update
There are some pictures from the New Orleans trip in the photo gallery. Red Herring ran a story called “Net 2016: The Web 10 Years After” in which a number of us were quoted. See in the news. If you haven’t tried Pandora and you are in the U.S., Australia or New Zealand, I highly […]
Preservation
After finding four official National Geodetic Survey benchmarks during an interesting walk around downtown New Orleans, it was time to meet at Antoine’s for dinner. The famous restaurant has been continuously operated by the same family since 1840. Through wars, the Great Depression, epidemics and storms, the culinary treasures continue to be served. The French […]