New Malaria Initiative Launched
April 30, 2009
At a time when the world’s attention is captured by the imminent possibility that a swine flu pandemic is about to occur, one might think that there is only bad news to
Enterra Insights
Month: April 2009
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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Globalization vs. Decentralization
April 29, 2009
Unless you have been completely cut off from the news the past few days, you are aware of the growing concern of swine flu pandemic. For years, the global health community has
The Milken Institute Global Conference
April 28, 2009
As a result of Enterra Solutions® pioneering work in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Milken Institute invited me to develop and moderate a panel entitled Investing in Iraq at this year’s
Cooking and Climate
April 27, 2009
Twenty years ago Donald Johnson, an animal-nutrition specialist at Colorado State University, published a study about how much methane gas is emitted by cows and how that release of gas could adversely
Commodity Economics: Feast or Famine
April 24, 2009
For decades development strategists have been trying to get countries whose national economies are primarily dependent on exporting a single commodity to diversify. In the world of commodities, things are seldom stable
Go Green, Save Lives
April 23, 2009
We’re all familiar with the negative consequences of living in a polluted world. We also intuitively understand that drinking clean water and breathing clean air improves health and saves lives. The military,
Time for a New Internet?
April 22, 2009
I’ve written a number of posts about security issues relating to the Internet and World Wide Web. We’re all at risk and it’s getting more difficult to keep up our defenses. According
Time Magazine’s Small World
April 21, 2009
There is a saying in Europe about American sports that goes something like this: “When we hold a world championship, we actually invite the world.” It’s a reference to events like baseball’s
The Challenge of Kirkuk
April 20, 2009
Kirkuk is an important historical city in northern Iraq. There is archaeological evidence (the Kirkuk Citadel) that the city sits on the oldest site of continuous occupation in Iraq — stretching back
Happy Birthday World Wide Web
April 17, 2009
The World Wide Web was born twenty years ago last month, when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who at the time was working at CERN, wrote a paper that bore the innocuous title “Information
