Howard Greenstein's Website

Day: May 3, 2005

  • Loops

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    Worldchanging reports that Jamis was caught on Flickr by me. He then took a picture of me reading that article and went to upload the picture. To complete the loop– I took a picture of him uploading the picture of me reading the article about me taking the picture of him. I love this.  

  • CAPT (Ret.) Linda M. Lewandowski,

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    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…

  • John Garstka – Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

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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.…

  • Biological network model

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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…