Many Venture Capitalist companies have been formed to work with universities to license research results or products from university research laboratories. I had a chance to interact with multiple of those. Most of them had difficulties because many universities really don’t understand entrepreneurship. Their intellectual property offices think more like lawyers than business people. If [...]
I came across a research article with the title: To Do or To Have? That is the question. This research was done at University of Colorado at Boulder and at Cornell University. The basic finding of the research, completed about 5 years ago, is that people prefer experiences over material possession. The happiness derived from [...]
Yesterday I had endoscopy of my Gastro-esophageal area (of stomach and esophagus). Third time in about five years. About 5 years ago, I underwent a similar inspection that revealed that I had cancer at the junction of my esophagus and stomach. Exactly 3 days less than 5 years ago, my chemo started to cure the [...]
I am seeing lot of excitement among students and even among some industrial people about the Multimedia Grand Challenge launched by ACM Multimedia Conference Committee. I am happy to see good leadership demonstrated by Naaman and Chua in this area. Good excitement created. One thing that is a bit confusing to people, however, is that [...]
USA knows well that protectionism is detrimental to its future. In fact USA has been the most open county and has become what it is because of its open policy. From time to time, however, some politicians start talking about protectionism. Current fiscal crisis is just one more example of this politics. Thomas Friedman has [...]