December 2007 -- What's New? Recent Innovations from Members of the Society

[Sue Klein Lebeck]

December 2007

What's New? Recent Innovations from Members of the Society
New Developments and Improvisational Music:
An evening of celebration

Join us to get an early peek at new developments from Steve Tiell, Cynthia Heyer, Jim Armstrong, Jitendra Mudhol, Kimberly Wiefling, and more. Bring your own new developments, and if you wish, a favorite holiday treat to share.

There will be be music!

[Sue Klein Lebeck]

Notes and Gems....

December 2007

What's New? Recent Innovations from Members of the Society
New Developments and Improvisational Music:
An evening of celebration

In the spirit of Celebrating Innovation, our Feature Presentation shone a light on many new things that Society members are involved in. Check them out…

- Cindy Heyer is contributing her talents to the new Paglo crawler, an open source utility which crawls operating systems in order to answer key questions for IT managers. Paglo hopes to become a widely used platform in the IT community (http://paglo.com)

- Max Sims is an industrial designer who recently returned from Spain to pursue new projects here. His work in Spain includes the creation of a virtual world designed to teach the player the Spanish language. For a taste of Max’ work, see http://web.mac.com/mantissa241/iWeb/Site/CAID_work.html.

- Laura Mappin is introducing newer, silkier and more affordable textures to her edgy art. For products, stories, and motivations, see http://www.bauboroars.com/.

- Jim Armstrong is evangelizing Apple’s latest products, and predicts that nano-technology and the ipod touch technology will play prominently in the future of innovation. Look for touch keyboards to soon be displayed on any surface.

- Howard Lieberman is making innovative forays into the field of sound-centric computing, which he predicts will become pervasive, for “the dominant mechanism for knowledge transfer in the human race is sound”.

- Steve Gibson is now working with Vello – the new conference call service that calls you (http://myvello.com) (demo in at our February Society meeting).

- Barbara Kivowitz is now a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s new Institute for Global Work. (http://management.bu.edu/academics/centers/igw/index.html)

- Kimberly Wiefling is now an author, having recently launched her book Scrappy Project Management.(http://www.amazon.com/Scrappy-Project-Management-Predictable-Avoida... ) . Read more about Silicon Valley project management at the blog she moderates (http://www.svprojectmanagement.net/)

- Steve Tiell is pursuing his professional interest in innovation inspired by bio-mimicry (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/18 ) through the creation of a patent brokerage firm aimed at enabling nature-inspired technologies: Nature’s Licensing Authority.

And

- Vitaly Golomb pre-invites Society members to a Beatnik anniversary partyJ in 2008, hosted by his firm Sputnik Integrated. Stay tuned!

Thank you for joining us in 2007, and may we all have a wonderful 2008!