September may be my favorite time of the year. In addition to the adrenaline rush of running the U.S. Open, it’s also the beginning of the football season. As an avid football fan, I can hardly wait for the first Sunday of the season to...
Great CIOs are business leaders and see business results. The time was that being a great CIO involved being a great technologist. The relationship between leadership and mastery of a subject matter is strong, particularly in technical disciplines. After all how can a...
Today at the White House, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, a nationwide effort includes over $260 million in public-private investments to move American students to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade President Obama...
A package of economic growth ideas proposed by Senate Democrats expands current tax credits and grant programs and adds new initiatives to spur business development and retention as well as worker training. The Wisconsin C.O.R.E. Jobs Act, (C.O.R.E. stands for Connecting Opportunity, Research, and Entrepreneurship)...
While waiting for my annual physical, I enrolled in a research study. (About every other year, I participate in a research study. Two years ago, a sleep apnea study involved me spending the night in an iron lung with electrodes in my mouth and all...
Exactly one year after his historic election to the White House, President Barack Obama came to a racially diverse charter school in Madison Wednesday to outline his plans for education reform."The United States, a nation that has always led the way in innovation, is now...
President Obama showed up at Madison's Wright Middle School Wednesday to talk about reforming education, but that topic may not have been top of mind for everyone who came to hear him. It was the day after Democrats lost races for governor in Virginia and...
President Obama delivered remarks in Madison about a clean energy economy that will free America from the grip of foreign oil and generate millions of good-paying jobs in the process. He spoke about offering the best possible education to America's sons and daughters. "The prosperity...
The apparent turn in the U.S. economy may have put the brakes on the IT job loss freefall, according to some new data. Since last November, IT employment has declined by nearly 250,000 jobs, or 6 percent, after peaking that month at 4.058 million jobs. However,...