Some of the same technologies, such as cloud computing and semantic search, that make the most popular social networking applications possible are now being applied to development, education and healthcare delivery.
How can these readily available technologies be best leveraged to address complex issues?
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Rainer Brüderle
Rainer Brüderle (born June 22, 1945 in Berlin) is a German politician and member of the FDP. He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987-1998.
On October 28, 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the Cabinet Merkel II.
William D. Green
William D. Green is chairman and CEO of Accenture, a US$21.6 billion global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.
In addition to chairing the board of directors, Mr. Green is responsible for managing the company; formulating and executing long-term strategies; and for all interactions with clients, employees, investors and other stakeholders. Mr. Green is Accenture's primary decision maker and policy maker, setting the tone for the company's values, ethics and culture. He has served on Accenture's board of directors since its inception in 2001.
Michael W. Laphen
Mr. Laphen is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Computer Sciences Corporation. He was appointed chairman on July 30, 2007, and was elected to the position of chief executive officer on May 21, 2007. Earlier in 2007, he was elected to the board of directors of the company. Beginning April 1, 2003, Mr. Laphen was the company's president and chief operating office responsible for the effective execution of CSC's business plan and for ensuring operational excellence in the delivery of services to clients around the globe.
Mr. Laphen earned his bachelor's degree in business from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Laphen served in the United States Air Force and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. He is a member of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
Adam Lashinsky
Adam Lashinsky is a business journalist and commentator with special expertise in finance and technology. An insider to Silicon Valley, he has written in-depth articles on Apple, Google, eBay, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. He has covered hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and the post-Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans.
Lashinsky is editor-at-large for Fortune magazine and has extremely broad experience in both broadcast and print media. He is a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel's program "Cavuto on Business" and appears frequently throughout the week on other Fox News and Fox Business Network programs: "Bulls and Bears," "Cashin' In," and "Your World with Neil Cavuto."
Before joining Fortune, Lashinsky was the Silicon Valley columnist for TheStreet.com and was the first high-tech stocks columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. He has been a reporter and assistant managing editor for Crain's Chicago Business and was a Henry Luce Scholar in Tokyo, working as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan's main economic daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Lashinsky's work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, San Francisco Magazine and many other publications.
Didier Lombard
Appointed as the France Telecom Group's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on February 27, 2005, Didier Lombard is also a director at Thomson and Thales and a member of the supervisory board at Radiall and ST Microelectronics.
Didier Lombard joined the Group in 2003 as Executive Senior Vice President, in charge of Technologies, Strategic Partnerships and New Usages for France Telecom.
Between 1988 and 2003, he worked with the French ministry for research and technology and the ministry for the economy, finance and industry, and was then founding chairman of the French agency for international investment.
He began his career in 1967 at France Telecom's CNET (currently Research and Development Division), where he worked on developing new products for France Telecom on satellites, electronic components and wireless systems.
Didier Lombard is a graduate from École Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications.
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D is a member of the board of directors of Apple, Inc. and was the CEO of Google, Inc. from 2001 - 2011. He continues as the executive chairman of Google and acts as an adviser to co-founders Page and Brin. He also sits on the Princeton University board of trustees.
Since coming to Google, Schmidt has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Schmidt shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations.
Schmidt's Novell experience culminated a twenty-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur, and developer of great technologies.
Prior to his appointment at Novell, Schmidt was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's internet software strategy.
Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog.
Schmidt has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, Schmidt was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on "the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company."
Schmidt was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of directors for the New America Foundation.
Joel Selanikio
Joel Selanikio is a practicing pediatrician, a former Wall Street computer consultant, and a former CDC epidemiologist with a passion for combining technology and public health to address inequities in developing countries.
He leads DataDyne.org's pioneering efforts to develop and promote new technologies for health and international development, including the award-winning EpiSurveyor mobile data collection project.
Application of knowledge to the practical aims of human life or to changing and manipulating the human environment. Technology includes the use of materials, tools, techniques, and sources of power to make life easier or more pleasant and work more productive. Whereas science is concerned with how and why things happen, technology focuses on making things happen. Technology began to influence human endeavour as soon as people began using tools. It accelerated with the Industrial Revolution and the substitution of machines for animal and human labour. Accelerated technological development has also had costs, in terms of air and water pollution and other undesirable environmental effects.
Free Speech?????? Where did my previous messages go???? Stop irradiating people with non-ionizing radiation. Please start immediately to make Safety the number one issue. Also, I have read that Germany and France have 8% of their population electromagnetic hypersensitive (EHS).
When I was growing up, my father was always after my brother for wasting his time playing games on the computer. Now my brother spends his time behind a screen moving the players around in a different game. He is an air traffic controller. My father doesn't consider computer games a waste of time anymore, more like training.
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