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April 10-13, 2008
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Brad Holtz By Brad Holtz on 12/14/2006
Audio recordings from past COFES events are now available to COFES attendees.
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What Do You Want to Discuss at COFES 2007?
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 12/12/2006 6:51 AM
Comment now on the issues and topics you feel are important to your business, and that should be discussed during COFES 2007.
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Manufacturers ‘struggling’ with Skills Shortage
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 12/8/2006 8:07 PM
USA Today and Yahoo News reported this week that US manufacturers are struggling to find skilled laborers to do the hard work of manufacturing. And this is despite the reported millions of lost manufacturing jobs in recent years.
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Innovative "Rainbow" technology from India stores gigs on paper
Joel Orr 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 Paper
M. A. Siraj, Arab News
 
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Education: Hot topic at COFES India Summit
Joel Orr 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.
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Patents - do they Stop Innovation?
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 11/8/2006 12:11 AM
InformationWeek published an interesting article about the 'Patent Trap' - an issue which has been dominating the IT news headlines for months now. And ends with the question - Do Patents Stop Innovation?
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Autodesk to Miss Filing Deadline, Gets SEC Request for Info
Brad Holtz By Brad Holtz on 9/6/2006

Autodesk today announced that they were going to delay submitting their 10-Q quartery report http://go.cadwire.net/?49918,1,1 

I spoke with Carl Bass last week regarding this possibility. Bottom line, this is an accounting issue. There will be no noticable effect to this on Autodesk's bottom line and there are no issues here that have any substance.

In other words, you can ignore it, even if you are a stockholder.

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Innovation - anything is possible
Rachael Taggart By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 6/15/2006 5:49 AM
is there a point where innovation stops and engineering begins? Based on a conversation today, there isn't a defining line
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Ansys and Fluent - comments from Richard Davis of Needham
Brad Holtz By Brad Holtz on 6/11/2006
The recent decline in Ansys has set off fears in investors that something must be amiss with the Ansys-Fluent merger. My colleague, Richard Davis, has given me permission to post his explanation as to why that is NOT the case.
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Speaking of Innovation...
Rick Stavanja By Rick Stavanja on 6/2/2006 9:55 PM
INPEX bills itself as "America’s largest invention trade show" and showcases the newest inventions and products available today. It takes place next week in Pittsburgh.
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