By Guest Author Joshua Fisher How is the Internet changing the way you think? This is the Edge annual question for 2010—a question answered in various ways at Edge.org by a cadre of leading contributor-thinkers in fields such as neuroscience, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and computer science, among many others.
Joshua Fisher has worked for fifteen years in K-12 mathematics education as an editor, writer, researcher, presenter, and project manager. He currently works as managing editor for a middle-school publisher and professional development company serving school districts throughout the United States. In his spare time, he writes about education at his blog Text Savvy (www.textsavvyblog.net).
By Guest Author Vaswar Mitra The greatest cities of the world and the cradles of civilization have grown up on the banks of rivers. These cities have a complex relationship with the water body that is built up in layers over the lifetime of the city and the sustaining of which is vital for preserving
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In this post I speak with Filippo Passerini, CIO of Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the most reputed global consumer goods firms. Filippo discussed two salient aspects of his approach. First, he said that ideally, any IT endeavor should start from the IT strategy layer of the IT stack,
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In today’s post, I speak with John McDermott, CIO of Xerox Corporation, the global document management company. Like most CIOs, John’s foremost priority is to manage the IT costs of his organization. Although Xerox’s IT costs have been declining by an average 8% per year for the past six years,
By guest author Richard Laermer [Yesterday Richard introduced his newest project, “How To Fame,” a way to for people to change how the world sees them in order to achieve professional and personal goals. Today he concludes with a real-life example of how HTF works and a link to more ideas on faming.] Meet Frank Frank
By guest author Richard Laermer We are all known. Our perception by those who know us, or who encounter us even for the tiniest time, affects our lives in tangible ways. But it doesn’t matter how fantastic you are if others’ perception of you is…off. For this reason, my new project for 2010, “How to Fame”—
By Guest Author Shailesh Otari In this post we discuss Clearpath Technology, an Indian company in the field of Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). What started as a hobby in engineering college became a profession for the company’s founder, Deepak Bansal. Surfing on his home computer and learning methods of search engine optimization