Category: meshforum2005

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 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.…

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…

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…

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…