CAPT (Ret.) Linda M. Lewandowski, United States Navy
Logistics in the 21st century security environment – really about building large scale organizational change.
Recognition of the complexity and the multi-dimensional global environment.
Distributed Adaptive Operations – Security – diplomatic – economic – social – and ability to sense across mutiple dimensions and respond.
I’m paying more [...]
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John Garstka - Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of DefenseNetwork centric operations and warfare. Book – Network Centric Warfare.
Transformation – co-evolution of concepts, processes, organizations and technology, new sources of power, – broad and sustained competitive advantage.
Shift from industrial to information age: cold war containment strategies are not as relevant. Globalization [...]
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Dr. Eivind Almaas of Notre Dame
Scale free network model – networks continuously expand by addition of nodes, new nodes prefer to link to highly connected nodes. Examples – new web pages, airport links. Model is preferential attachment – you get a power law distribution. Exponent changes when nodes age, when there are costs associated with [...]
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The next panel is Buzz with John.
Buzz tells the story about how he created Activewords. Discusses his trip to Russia, sending dispatches back to the US, and becoming ‘a rock star’ – ie. everyone knew who he was because people forwarded his emails.
Buzz mentions Anagram – a great plug-in for outlook!
He also talked [...]
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Jamis discusses The concept that a constant stream of images, videos, etc will contribute to not the big-brother society but a society of millions of little brothers.
Camera phones, small video cameras, etc.
Irony break – Picture of Jamais taken as he was saying this at Flickr.
One implication - telemedicine - dermatologists could tell diagnosis of [...]
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Ed and Esther are up on stage talking about social networks. I honestly have been watching more than typing during this panel. Check meshforum.org to find a good link for their talk. Buzz is blogging the conference, for example.
Picture set at Flickr.
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Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
Valdis Krebs is speaking on Social netowrks analysis. Picture here. Valdis showing diagrams that are examples of Social Network Maps. Here is an example from his site. Now Eszter Hargittai is talking about the links between and among Political Weblogs. Sunstein’s theory (link courtesy of Eszter – thanks) is that there should be little interlinkage [...]
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Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
Here at Meshforum, watching Dr. Anna Nagurney doing an excellent overview of what Networks are.
She’s explaining all the networks around us, from transportation to web traffic, to water and power, to the Romans and the ‘flow problem’ they had with too many chariots at a given time of day.
Network analysis power is that it can [...]
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