http://www.standinginnovation.org Presenting Dramatic, Far-Reaching Innovations in Search of Innovative Experts Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:31:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every mathematical analysis, every work of physics, and natural sciences ever written is a product of a human mind that, the best we know, has been built by a process of random mutations accumulating according to the driving force of survival, and strictly survival, no gratuitous allowances for understanding how ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=104 Data mining programs find patterns in purely random data, and what's more:  different programs find different patterns!  The pattern-search algorithm determines what pattern is observed in a purely pattern-less body of data.  Taken in reverse:  every given pattern may be associated with a particularly programmed pattern-deducing algorithm operating over a ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=103 Very cold oxidation of crude oil skips distillation, traps CO2.  Game changer?We rarely get something so exciting to do (www.dgsgo.com), as to appraise a bold new innovation to shake the left over crude out of every calorie and BTU it has to offer.  Lot's of hurdles though, who knows?  It's ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=102   When cybersecurity, innovation, and education are abstracted to the core of their activity -- they fuse into a trisymmetric configuration:  each of the three is a knowledge realization process, with education being configured as knowledge realization helped by the source of the knowledge, cybersecurity is configured as knowledge realization where ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=100  Your handling of difficult tasks is suboptimal in proportion to your misappraisal of the handling effort.   Works both ways: If you think that a difficult challenge is easy -- you are going to keep trying to resolve it with insufficient resources -- failing time and again.  If you think that an ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=99 On February 1st Gideon's column in Digital Transactions Magazine has hit the newsstands, and the reaction was swift and furious, especially from privacy advocates.  In his column Gideon Samid points out the need to involve the payment industry in the present design of an extreme act to be ready to ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=97 The scientists implicated by the hacked emails in the University of East Anglia may be regarded as sorry fraudsters, an aberration of what science is all about.  What is fundamentally worrisome is the reaction of the large community of 'believers' in the theory the fraudulent scientists tried to falsely promote.  ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=96 The cream de la cream of Israel's technological talent is gravitated towards a couple of thousand start-up firms, funded by eager venture capitalists, and moved by a few dozen super-success stories.  The income fuels the economy, and regenerates itself;  quite a positive picture, but not without a shadow.  Venture capital ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=95 If you believe inventors, vendors, academics and politicians, we are under a flood of innovation like never before in human history.  But how can one tell?  We also have the best marketing and promotion machine in human history.  That means we can blow up a tiny new idea into an ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=94 Software generated by software is not new anymore, but the underlying man-made hardware was hitherto the limit of the self evolving computing assembly.  This limitation may be removed, and not in the very distant future (DGS got the contract to appraise it).  The idea is to use well crafted polymer ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=93 At any moment now, our telescopes might discover an ominous Space Asteroid on collision course with earth, giving us a tight measure of years, perhaps just months, before impact.  There are today various technology ideas on the books for how to avert such a catastrophic event like the one that ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=92  Avivah Litan, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research:    Gideon Samid's latest book on CyberSecurity in a 'must read' for both seasoned security professionals and novices caught in the 'unending CyberWar.' The author employs an innovative approach to his book, combining the hardcopy text with a companion cyber version that ... http://www.standinginnovation.org/?p=91