Enterra Insights

Month: May 2008

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Weeds and Biofuels — A Warning

My most recent post about biofuels [Cultivating the Right Biofuel] focused on an article by Roger Cohen who is fearful that the connection between increased use of food grains for biofuel and

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Generating Hydroelectricity without Dams

With energy prices continuing to skyrocket and concerns about climate change grabbing headlines and Nobel Peace prizes, you would think that potential breakthroughs in alternative energy technologies would get more notice. According

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Infrastructure and Disease

The crisis created by the cyclone that recently slammed the Myanmar coast highlights once again the importance of certain critical infrastructures. In my discussions about Development-in-a-Box™, I continually stress the importance of

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Machine — Heal Thyself

One desired feature of a resilient system is the ability to heal itself. Some animals escape from danger by shedding their tails once in a predator’s grasp. This strategy would only work

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Memorial Day

Today in the United States Memorial Day is being celebrated across the breadth of the land. It is better known as the beginning of the summer vacation season than it is for

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Patents and Plants

The current global food crisis — created by the confluence of climate change, high oil prices, and more people able to afford more food — has both corporations and academia scrambling to

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Coming to America

The recent raid of a kosher meat plant in Postville, Iowa, that netted more than 300 illegal immigrants working there reminds us that the debate about immigration is likely to remain a

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A Marketplace for Ideas

In March 2007, I wrote a post entitled Dating Game for Innovation. The focus of that post was UTEK, a technology matchmaking company that provides researchers an outlet for their ideas and

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Helping the Bottom Billion Revisited

Last October, Paul Collier, an economics professor at Oxford University, wrote an article for the Washington Post following the annual meeting of the World Bank presided over by its president, Robert Zoellick

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The Return of Family Farms?

Food security continues to make headlines around the globe. In the past several weeks, I have written several posts on the subject of food and a growing crisis over rising prices. The

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