Tag: R&D
The Remainer outrage over Horizon is entirely confected
The EU science scheme is really not all it’s cracked up to be
Read the full article...Internet of Things, Internet of Apprehension
The IoT has much to recommend it – but we need to set our sights higher: co-authored with Mark Birbeck
Read the full article...Re-inventing the High Street
James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘Reinventing the High Street‘ at the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
Read the full article...Transport: breaking through the impasse
ESSAY: Six arguments for innovation in transport.
Read the full article...Communicating the romance of innovation
James Woudhuysen delivered the Opening Keynote II ‘Communicating the Romance of Innovation‘ at the European Communication Summit in Brussels 2014
Read the full article...R&D: why failure is necessary
The US government’s reclassification of R&D as a sexy investment, not an iffy expense, is foolish.
Read the full article...Behind the froth in IT and innovation
James goes ‘Behind the froth in IT and innovation’ at TEDx Sussex University taking on two contemporary notions of IT – it’s all great or it’s all bad news.
Read the full article...An R&D recession
Today’s economic crisis partly springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development.
Read the full article...Now is not the time to lose faith in R&D
Just a few years ago, Sun Microsystems sold a gadget that would make your business compliant with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002.
Read the full article...Is it RIP for R&D?
Henry Chesbrough’s Open innovation suggests that most firms should leave R&D to the specialists.
Read the full article...Do not focus on customers
Ben Hunt’s The Timid Corporation argues for more investment in long-term research and development, rather than customer focus groups.
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In order to have precisely no influence on the climate, but to make powerful people feel good about themselves we will have to suffer energy rationing.
Their virtue, our pain.
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Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls