Watts Wacker, hippie extraordinaire and rock-star futurist, spoke at the Young Professionals of Milwaukee's third birthday bash last week. I was floored by his insights and had to borrow a pen to take notes. Here's what Watts offered, along with some R-squared commentary....
While the Olympics run every four years and last two weeks, the biotech Olympics run about four days every year. While global biotech participation still lags behind the athletic Olympics, the biotech Olympics (known as the annual BIO convention) had participation from 33 countries in...
One day back in 1992, someone telephoned Dr. Kelly Henrickson, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), and offered to pay him $25,000 for 1 ml. of fluid with a monoclonal...
Inacom Information Systems was recently named Worldwide Learning Solutions Partner of the Year at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2004....
Flash back to 1994, when the Web was still newfangled and household broadband was a pipe dream. That's when SupraNet set up shop in Madison as an Internet service provider, with one client. This September the company is celebrating its 10th...
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, announced Monday it has developed a wireless, miniaturized cardiovascular ultrasound that is expected to increase efficiency for physicians....
The U.S. Department of Defense has chosen a University of Wisconsin lab to create the electronic training programs that will underpin the federal government's attempts to curb modern slavery worldwide. UW's Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab will create online training modules for military and other...
When the news broke about Minnesota and Wisconsin sharing first-place rankings in this year’s ACT college entrance exam scores, one reporter asked a question that was simultaneously amusing and serious: “Could Vikings fans really be this smart?”...
TeraMEDICA announced an agreement Thursday with Capital Data, Inc., an independent provider of enterprise technology solutions and financial services, through which Capital Data will bundle TeraMEDICA's TI2m technology. Capital Data will bundle TeraMEDICA's TI2m archive solution into its own enterprise computing and storage solutions in...
Is competitive advantage obsolete? Today, competitors can copy the newest product enhancement, advertising claim, Web-site feature, supply-chain innovation or low-cost back-office process seemingly overnight....