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2015 — A Big Year for Big Data

January 14, 2015
By now, most people with an Internet connection have probably heard of Big Data. But is it really such a big deal?
 
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Edward Gresser: Trade and Inequality — Cause? Cure? Diversion?

Edward Gresser Progressiveeconomy
January 13, 2015
To look back over Census data on income and trade is to see three things happening at the same time: As trade flows have grown since the 1960s, Americans have become more affluent — but they have also been growing apart, with the wealthiest getting rich the fastest.
 
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T.J. Kneale: 2015 — The Rise of Democratization

T J Kneale Autodesk Inc
January 12, 2015
While Merriam-Webster tells us that “culture” was the most popular word of 2014, I predict that “democratization” will become ubiquitous in 2015.
 
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Gary Hufbauer: 2015 — A Decisive Year for Globalization

Gary Hufbauer Peterson Institute For International Economics
January 09, 2015
Globalization has contributed enormously to world prosperity. The rationalization of production through global supply chains and the application of new technology worldwide — not just where it was invented — made the 60 years following the Second World War the most prosperous era in human history.
 

But today globalization faces strong political headwinds. The very term triggers protest from the political left — it has come to be blamed for the prosperity of the top 1 percent, stagnant wages for everyone else and the excesses of Wall Street.
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Frank R. Samolis: SOS on TPA — The Importance of Trade Promotion Authority

Frank R Samolis Squire Patton Boggs Llp
January 08, 2015
Following a dramatic end to the 113th Congress — which saw year-end compromises around defense spending authorization and the so-called “cromnibus” appropriations bill — President Obama and the newly elected Republican majority in the Senate are under pressure to demonstrate to the American people their capacity to govern for the next two years.
 
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Lessons from Latin America on STEM Education

January 07, 2015
If math wasn’t your favorite subject in school, you’re hardly alone. But sometimes it just takes one good teacher to open a child’s eyes to the opportunities that an education in math and science can open up.
 
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Grayson Brulte: Disincentivizing Online Piracy Through Innovation

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
January 06, 2015
You don’t have to read all the headlines about the online attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment to understand the growing problem of piracy confronting the TV and movie industry.
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Scott Miller: WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement — Will the `Self-Help’ Program Succeed?

Scott Miller Center For Strategic And International Studies
January 05, 2015
We have just passed the one-year anniversary of the WTO’s ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, where members decided to adopt the agreement on trade facilitation. After overcoming some mid-year theatrics in Geneva, the WTO’s General Council closed 2014 by adopting the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) protocol and opening it for acceptance by members. This marks the first fully multilateral agreement adopted by the WTO since its creation 20 years ago.
 
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Projecting a Robot’s Intentions

Mit News
January 02, 2015

A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds.

In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT’s Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.

 

Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is, then choose the optimal route to avoid a close encounter.
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture

GE Look Ahead
December 31, 2014

Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015

If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.

 
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