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COFES Blog
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Author:
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Joel Orr
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Created:
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4/15/2006
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Joel thinks about and comments on all kinds of stuff
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By Joel Orr on
7/3/2007
I'm in Israel right now, on my honeymoon. It's hard to find Israeli engineering technology. No, wait, I don't mean it that way; there is a lot of engineering software coming from this tiny country. There are names you'll recognize right away - Cimatron, Smarteam - and others with which you may not be familiar, such as Amdocs and Yedda.com, neither of which is particularly engineering-oriented, but both of which have products working in engineering firms worldwide.No, what I mean is that these firms are so cool, so savvy, so web, that the fact of their being Israeli elicits no more than "so what?"High tech is burgeoning in Israel. The country has cracked the marketing code. You may find out that many applications you use regularly are Israeli under the skin. Of course, many do not advertise that fact; anti-semitism is alive and well in the world today.But if you are looking for a location for a development center, with easy access to talent - talent that is not as cheap as Indian or Russian, but not as expensive...
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By Joel Orr on
11/27/2006
A 24-year-old student in Kerala has come up with a way to encode data densely on paper:
Data Can Now Be Stored on PaperM. A. Siraj, Arab News
 Sainul Abideen explains the features of his Rainbow Technology. (AN photo)
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By Joel Orr on
11/23/2006
The COFES India Summit, held 11/17-18/06 at the Hyatt Regency Delhi, drew an impressive variety of leaders from Indian and US organizations. We are in the process of assembling all the video, audio, and session summaries, and they will soon be posted on the COFES site.For now, some interesting tidbits:
India has a small number of world-class engineering schools, led by IIT; but they turn out only a few thousand graduates per year. There are many other engineering schools, but they are hamstrung by financial issues, keeping them from hiring the kind of faculty that would turn out the kind of graduates needed by the economy.
In recent international reports on R&D spending by large firms, no Indian companies had measurable investments in R&D as a percentage of revenues.
Infrastructure development in India is quite extensive, and stands to grow even more in coming years.
India's population is growing rapidly, and will probably overtake China's in the near future.
India and China, while highly...
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By Joel Orr on
5/11/2006
Yes, Rachael, everyone does know that loving shiny things is a guy thing. (By the way, that would be a 1956 Chevy, not a '52 - a dour, clunky box...:-))
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By Joel Orr on
4/17/2006
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM VP, in "Always On" - http://www.alwayson-network.com/weblog.php
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By Joel Orr on
4/15/2006
COFES is a highlight of my year! Ever since we created COFES, back in the last century, this glorious get-together has been a major source of inspiration, networking, and empowerment in my life.
It has a been a major factor in encouraging several of my grandchildren to become engineers, for one thing.
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