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IBM/Cambridge SSME Whitepaper
International effort lead by IBM at defining need for and content of the convergent disciplines of Service Science, Management & Engineering (SSME)
Cyberspatial Mechanics
This research paper was published this month in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B. This first of several planned papers introduces to the systems and services science communities a formal definition of cyberspace supporting the specification and analysis of the dynamics of enterprises (autonomous cyberspatial agents) that interoperate through infospatial, geospatial and sociospatial transactions.
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06.26.08
An editorial in today's WTN reacts to more evidence of the continued technological malaise present in the Milwaukee business community.
05.28.08
Today WTN published an article entitled "Public-private partnerships can build a technology economy." The article introduces several regional collaboration initiatives, referencing the Milwaukee Institute's role. The article is available here.
05.21.08
Institute staff met with leaders of the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-Champaign (uiuc.edu). Discussions involved our mutual interests in grid computing and science applications technology development in the "Great Lakes Region" and the role of high performance computing and related web-based collaboration services among distributed teams of researchers, both academic and commercial. Discussions highlighted our shared interest in developing the I94 corridor from Chicago to Minneapolis and dimensions of potential working relations.
05.08.08
Digital Healrhcare Conference, Madison, WI - Mr. John Byrnes, Institute Board Chairman, gave a talk on Public-Private Partnerships. His PowerPoint presentation is available here.
05.07.08
Institute Executive Director Jay Bayne was an invited to participant in IBM's annual Almaden Institute. This year's theme was "Innovation with Information," and included the topic of need for a new "services science" competent to deal with the explosion of transactional (e.g., web search) and real-time (e.g., scientific instrumentation) information. A whitepaper on this emerging science was recently released by IBM (Almaden Research Lab) and Cambridge University (UK), and is available to the left.
04.21.08
The Institute officially initiated development of its collaboration services extension (designated V1.0) to www.mkei.org. Planned launch date for the initial services is July, 2008.
03.24.08
Milwaukee Institute Chairman John Byrnes discusses the Institute's concept of a "public-private partnership" in today's WTN News.
03.19.08
As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today, the Milwaukee-Waukesha area has been identified as fifth in the top ten list of US regions for potential technology-driven growth. The study is based on regional patent activity.
03.13.08
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel commented on the Institute's recent CI Day event.
03.09.08
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published its introductory article on the Institute in today's Sunday Edition, Business Section
The Wisconsin Technology Network (WTN) published its introductory article on the Institute in its online publication.
02.20.08
The initial version (v0.5.7) of the Milwaukee Institute's website (www.mkei.org) officially launched today.
11.01.07
The Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Institute commissioned the Institute by authorizing its FY08 operating plan and budget, contracts for its Executive Director (Dr. Jay Bayne) and Administrative Director (Ms. Beth Furumo) and its 501(c)3 IRS application.
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