Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Freedom to Innovate? ... CITRIS-kickoff: The New Economy (incl. Journal & Repository)
Highlights of Prof. Brad Delong's potential interest in OHS/SDS/TouchGraph/Multivalent
browser, etc. and CITRIS call for action for collaborative research management and
dissemination of results. (01)
UC Berkeley's Prof. Brad Delong < http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Career/resume.html > is
an economist and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury <
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Career/whatididinwashington.html> who is interested in a
"weblog" for his semi-daily journal and knowledge sharing repository.
< http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Index.html#anchor4212447 > (02)
* He says: (03)
"Semi Daily Journal: It's Time to Start One of My Own
< http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/Daily_Journal.html> (04)
But if you find any intelligent, liberal, and
polite/well-intentioned/kind-spirited weblogs (okay, I'd be happy with
two out of three), email me < mailto:delong@econ.berkeley.edu >." (05)
* He is also made a presentation for the CITRIS-kickoff: The New Economy (06)
... "Projects like CITRIS promise the benefits of government
research--the wide distribution of knowledge and the acceleration of
cumulative research--and the benefits of private entrepreneurship--the
willingness to take risks and investigate large numbers of potential
development projects rather than just those that have won the stamp of
approval of a single central committee."
< http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/citris_kickoff.html > (07)
* UC Regents say: "This has to be win-win for all involved." (08)
“Under the CITRIS proposal, the University of California has proposed
to work with industry under a new, experimental intellectual property
licensing model developed to make all research results available
openly to any collaborating institution - from industry or academia.
This approach is most likely to maximize the impact of the research
and its long-term benefit to society.”
< http://patron.ucop.edu/ottmemos/docs/ott00-02.html > (09)
Prof. Brad Delong says: "Tom Kalil is a cousin" <
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/OpEd/theshockofthevirtual.html >. (010)
* 7/31/01 - President Clinton's former science and technology advisor, Thomas Kalil,
takes up post at UC Berkeley (011)
"Kalil, who arrived July 10, 2001 will primarily work with researchers
in the two California Institutes for Science and Innovation in which
UC Berkeley plays a lead role. The California Institute for
Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research,
called QB3, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society (CITRIS) are innovative initiatives by Gov. Davis
to help advance the state's scientific and economic prowess. (012)
Kalil's interest in promoting the public interest dimensions of the
Information Revolution dovetails with the intent of CITRIS - to create
and harness information technology to tackle society's most critical
needs. Kalil was instrumental in Clinton's efforts to connect school
classrooms to the Internet, train teachers to use technology to
improve student performance, make information technology accessible to
people with disabilities and create digital libraries for math and
science education."
< http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/07/31_kalil.html > (013)
* Tom Kalil's call for action: (014)
"We should talk to people who have been involved in previous
collaborations between engineers and social scientists to determine
how they have dealt with some of the obvious barriers to successful
two-way collaboration, such as a lack of familiarity with each others’
specialized vocabulary, research methodology, and academic culture. "
< http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~demmel/CITRIS_KickOff/CITRIS_Kalil.htm
> (015)
"John J. Deneen" wrote: (016)
> Freedom to Innovate?
> <
> http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/Daily_Journal_2002_05.html#2002-05-14-unsettling
> >
> (excepts from Prof. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal)
>
> "Lurking behind the legal case that is now Unsettling States v.
> Microsoft has always been a whispered sotto voce claim by Microsoft that
> competition--in the market for PC operating systems, for office
> productivity suites, for browsers--is a bad thing. Technological
> innovation needs a single, strong, dominant, monopolistic firm to set
> the standard, and to tell the industry when it is time for the standard
> to change. " ....
>
> "I have never been able to evaluate this argument satisfactorily. But
> last week something happened to one of its biggest boosters. Keith
> Teare, CEO of Real Names, who had favored the maintenance of Microsoft's
> monopoly in web browsers as pro-consumer because "without Microsoft [to
> set the standard, and make sure that Real Names's products are included
> in the standard set of browser capabilities] it could take years to
> deliver [Real Names's] Internet Keywords globally." With Microsoft as
> monopolist standard-setter that had "embraced our open standards-based
> architecture in March 2000 because it makes perfect sense for consumers
> to use Internet Keywords within MSN and Internet Explorer," Teare was
> looking forward to a rapid real-time test of whether internet users
> would prefer Real Names's way of finding things on the Internet to the
> (badly broken) URL-based way.
>
> But while Real Names's information technologies were impressive, and
> while it did seem that Real Names had a chance to catch on, it turns out
> that it will never get that market test. Last week Microsoft decided to
> remove support for Real Names's products from its web browser, Internet
> Explorer. Since Real Names's way of naming web sites requires the
> permission and help of the browser manufacturer to work, and since
> Microsoft appears to have decided that Real Names's success would
> diminish Microsoft's share of some future market in Internet searching,
> Real Names is now gone." ...
>
> .... "Two years ago Real Names's CEO Keith Teare thought that they had
> simple answers: keep Microsoft in shape to keep maintaining its monopoly
> no matter what the violations of antitrust law that it had as a matter
> of fact committed: "It seems to us that the American dream of working
> hard and prospering is being called into question by the treatment
> Microsoft is receiving. I came to the United States because I believed
> it supports entrepreneurs and I still believe that America wants
> entrepreneurs to succeed. And although the government and the court seem
> to be sending an opposite message, I do not believe that ordinary
> Americans should allow one of the country's most successful
> entrepreneurs to be effectively neutralized because he was 'too
> successful'."
>
> Today Real Names's ex-CEO Keith Teare sees things somewhat differently:
> his "...naming technology... is being killed at birth - before it
> succeeds and becomes "out of control". A small private company is being
> denied an audience--not because of money--but because of [Microsoft's]
> fear of losing control.... I am bitterly disappointed by the lack of
> vision... the defence of search and the URL against a truly global and
> multi-lingual naming platform with built in directory services....
> Naturally I'm pretty unhappy about this. Microsoft seems to be playing
> the role of the referee who decides whether any innovations succeed ...
> they've just brought innovation in internet naming to a grinding halt -
> and the internet *really* needs innovation in naming. RealNames will not
> be the only victim - there's a whole ecosystem that stretches all around
> the world that Microsoft is turning off. CNNIC in China, Forval in Japan
> and other companies in Belgium, Holland, France, Finland, Sweden,
> Denmark and Norway. There are more than 100 registrars of Keywords and
> they in turn have thousands of resellers. There are more than 100,000
> customers..."
>
> More info: see Keith Teare's Home Page
>
> CITRIS-kickoff: The New Economy (by Prof. Brad DeLong)
> ... "Projects like CITRIS promise the benefits of government
> research--the wide distribution of knowledge and the acceleration of
> cumulative research--and the benefits of private entrepreneurship--the
> willingness to take risks and investigate large numbers of potential
> development projects rather than just those that have won the stamp of
> approval of a single central committee."
> < http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/citris_kickoff.html >
>
> An Economist's Repository & Multimedia Simulation
> < http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Index.html#anchor4212447 >
> < http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/multimedia/Multimedia.html > (017)