Commentary

Pascal Malassigné, a professor of industrial design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, has made a shower-and-commode wheelchair that will assist people with spinal damage with their toileting activities....

If you haven’t ever read the opening passages of Alice in Wonderland, you should. Lewis Carroll managed, in 1865, to write a pretty accurate description of most modern IT projects....

The global population is divided into two major groups: open minds in closed societies and closed minds in open societies. Therefore, the marketing and naming of products must address the issues of sexual connotation with extraordinary depth, care and caution....

In prior columns, I have addressed the incredible need for early (and I mean very early) stage funding in the Midwest as well as the emergence over the last few years of a number of early stage (including seed) venture groups and angel groups....

While you have to wait until February to “unwrap” the selected 70 or so companies that will debut at DEMO@15, there are a few gems along the way that just won’t wait until the conference — gems we can unwrap now....

My three-week tour through Europe and Israel came to an interesting culmination at Net 2004 in Lille, France. This four-year-old conference draws nearly 1,000 people from around Europe to discuss the transformative power of technology....

Columnist Byron Glick interviewed Byrne Chapman, chief information officer at American Family Insurance, about the challenges of dealing with IT at a large insurance company and fostering innovation. Chapman revealed that he takes a surprisingly entrepreneurial approach to encouraging individuals in the company to pitch...