Enterprise Services Architecture: Designing IT for Business Innovation

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Is there room for improvement in the way your network SOA enables applications to communicate and perform services for one another? Then you'll want to take a serious look at Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), which is fast becoming the leading SOA technology. With ESA, monolithic enterprise applications are broken apart into layers and offered as components that make extensive use of web services. With these components, companies gain the flexibility to craft the optimal IT infrastructure, eliminating bottlenecks and reducing the cost of implementation.

Our new guide, Enterprise Services Architecture: Designing IT for Business Innovation, demonstrates how your enterprise can transform current solutions into technology that will better serve the needs of your customers. Commissioned by the German software development company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers and other IT professionals who want to understand ESA in a detailed way-especially those of you who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.

Each chapter in the book is organized as a set of theoretical and practical questions with answers and examples that offer a clear story. To partition ESA into digestible portions, the authors boiled everything down into five concepts:

"Conceiving a Vision for ESA" - This section delves deep into the technical aspects of ESA.
"Consuming Services"-Using services to solve IT problems within the organization: This business-focused material shows you how services can be consumed immediately to configure standard software to solve a much larger set of problems.
"Composing with Services"-Assembling new applications and services from existing services: This section demonstrates how services can extend standard software by building on existing functionality as much as possible.
"Creating Services"-Creating new web services from scratch: How new services are created is described to provide technologists a deeper understanding of the tools and processes involved.
"Controlling Services" -discusses new forms of governance based on services as well as lifecycle management, operations, security, and standards.

ESA is already changing the way vendors build applications and the way companies use them. Enterprise Services Architecture: Designing IT for Business Innovation presents a forward-looking approach that you can use to meet future development challenges with ease and agility.

Customer Reviews:

Very Helpful Book on SOA.......2006-07-11

This is a very helpful book on SOA because it provides the business case for SOA, an excellent technical overview, and real-life examples of how to use it.

While it is written from an SAP perspective, any IT group that is investigating SOA will find value in this book -- as it describes how SOA impacts different layers of the IT stack (from persistence to business objects, to process orchestration, and uesr interfaces). It also provides actual case studies.

SOA - reality today!.......2006-07-02

Being a student of business and information management, I had heard about SOA before, both from a technical perspective (XML, Web services) and from a business standpoint (shiny visions of flexible processes). This book is like the missing link between the two areas! It does not only tell you that SOA will change organizations but it also shows *how* exactly this is going to happen. The authors describe all relevenat aspects, starting from organizational change down to the SAP tools that can be used to model processes and to create your own service-oriented applications.
What surprised me most was that ESA - SAP's flavour of SOA - is business-ready today! This is illustrated with numerous real-world examples from a wide range of corporations. The case studies give a good idea of useful ESA applications and show how the transition to a service-oriented infrastructure could take place.
"Enterprise SOA" is suited for everybody interested in information management, even without any previous knowledge in the SOA field. After reading through the book, you'll finally know how SOA is changing the business environment and how SAP is bringing the concepts to life based on open standards. Although you won't know every technical detail, you'll have learned enough to plan your organization's future in a service-oriented world.

Creating a Trading Floor: The Project Manager's Guide to the Design, Construction and Launch of Trading Floors and Data Centers

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Creating a Trading Floor: The Project Manager's Guide to the Design, Construction and Launch of Trading Floors and Data Centers
Charles Smith
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The project manager's Bible to the design and implementation of ground-breaking trading floors
To stay competitive, trading floors require cutting-edge technology, a complex network that consists of everything from phone lines to data servers. This practical manual offers extensive, up-to-the-minute advice for all those involved in the planning, design and construction of trading floors and data centers in any of the world's major financial centers, from New York to Hong Kong. It covers timetables, sequential planning lists, financial regulations, corporate governance and data security. In addition, it includes lists of the vital questions to ask suppliers, contractors and clients. An invaluable reference for IT professionals and senior executives in the world's leading investment banks.

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation

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very technical
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
a useful collection of case studies and key papers

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
Robert A. Burgelman , Clayton M. Christensen , Steven C. Wheelwright , and Modesto A. Maidique
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ASIN: 0071232303

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Burgelman, Maidique, and Wheelwright have written the market leading text for a course in technology and innovation. This text covers the latest research by using a combination of text, readings, and cases. Based on reviewer response to a survey, the authors have updated many of the cases and instructors found outdated or lacking. As in the current edition, the book has a strong case foundation at Harvard and Stanford. Classic cases such as Claire McCloud have been kept, while newer cases such as Intel Corporation in 1999 have been added. There is also a strong set of readings from sources such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and Sloan Management Review.

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Good.......2007-08-01

This is a textbook for my class. The information is chock full of case studies. The studies are written in a way that they are understandable and easy to follow, more of a story rather than a lecture. This is not a book that you read from cover to cover, but would instead refer to for a specific instance. It is dense and heavy but all told it is very acceptable as a text.

Comprehensive, but weird and boring.......2006-11-10

I bought this as a textbook for one of my classes. Overall, this is a decent book on strategic management of technology and innovation. I think some of the articles in the book are really good, but the book is very disorganized and hard to read. I would recommend it, but it seems that the editors should address major organization issues in the next addition.

very technical.......2006-02-24

The book was ok but it made for very difficult reading; it was very technical. I had to purchase it for class. Luckily I had a good professor who could break down the concepts more clearly. I would, however, suggest that Devry get an easier book to digest next time.

Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation.......2005-10-24

This book includes many good papers and many hi-tech business cases associated with technology and innovation management. Some of them are a little old but still useful to understand strategic management. If you have learned general management and marketing and want to get a view of the management of technology and innovation, this is worthwhile reading.

a useful collection of case studies and key papers.......2000-03-17

This book offers a large number of case studies from the areas of research and technology development in various industries. It covers most the important concepts of technology management such as "core competencies". It follows the traditional model employed in business schools: learning from others' experiences by means of case studies. Particularly relevant are the sections on "heavyweight teams".

Achieving Business Value From Technology

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Clear modern thinking about Business Value
Well written, well organized, very practical

Achieving Business Value From Technology
Tony Murphy
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PRAISE FOR ACHIEVING BUSINESS VALUE FROM TECHNOLOGY

"Clearly, IT investments have never before played such a critical part in business growth. The book addresses the weakness existing in most management systems involving the lack of a systematic process to realize the economic benefits of the IT investment and provides a clear A-Z methodology for business to bridge this gap. This book is clearly written for all levels and backgrounds in business management and is a must-do for those whose business involves IT, is considering IT, or would like to significantly tailor IT investments for their economic advantage."
—Professor Richard P. Wool, University of Delaware, President and CEO, Cara Plastics Inc.

"Tony Murphy addresses the difficult question of the value of IT investments head on. He translates an elegant theory into effective practice. The case studies in the book effectively reinforce his key messages."
—Dr. Dermot Moynihan, Senior Vice President, World Wide Chemical Development, GlaxoSmithKline

"This book is the answer to most CIOs' need for a well-structured, pragmatic, and easily implemented set of tools and practices designed to answer the universal problem of managing and measuring IT's contribution to the business. Tony Murphy's unique blend of practical experience, industry best practice, and excellent communication skills provides the reader with a valuable-and highly readable-guide on how best to achieve that elusive objective of reliably realizing the business benefits of IT investments."
—Michael Rice, oup Director of IT, Kerry Group plc

"At Oxfam we are one year into a three-year IT strategy based on the principles Tony Murphy lays out in this book, and there is a real, positive difference in how IT is perceived, and in its real strategic position within the organization. If you have ever wondered just how you can gain strategic alignment for your IT function, and then how to make the practical link to IT investment for the organization, Tony has provided a framework that joins them both."
—Simon Jennings, Head of Information Systems, Oxfam GB

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Clear modern thinking about Business Value.......2002-10-18

Clearly written, this book debunks some myths and sets a modern path towards pursuit of business value. We need plain talking books that bridge the business/IT divide and tell it the way it is.

Great reading and immediately useful.

Well written, well organized, very practical.......2002-10-08

I was leary when I saw the words "practical guide" in the title as I find that the phrase is often far from the truth. I guess I was in a gambling mood because I took a shot and found that this is a rare case where the advice here is actually implementable. The book includes detailed case studies, very specific advice on appropriate measures or "pillars" as the author calls them of IT project value, and lists of sample questions and metrics for each pillar.

All in all this is a very useful book for justifying IT projects particularly in today's environment when your pal the CFO is squeezing every penny trying to get blood out.

Business Process Management (BPM): The Third Wave
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This book shows the way

Business Process Management - The Third Wave

Get it, read it, buy it if ...

History of business process management and beyond

Ahead of its time

Business Process Management (BPM): The Third Wave
Howard Smith , and Peter Fingar
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ASIN: 0929652339

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This book heralds a breakthrough that redefines competitive advantage for the next fifty years. Don't bridge the business-IT divide: Obliterate it! The book is the first authoritative analysis of how third-wave business process management (BPM) changes everything in business and what it portends. While the vision of process management is not new, existing theories and systems have not been able to cope with the reality of business processes --until now. This book describes a radical, simplifying shift in process thinking and technology that utterly transforms today's information systems and reduces the lag between management intent and execution.

A process-managed enterprise makes agile course corrections, embeds Six Sigma quality and reduces cumulative costs across the value chain. It pursues strategic initiatives with confidence, including mergers, consolidation, alliances, acquisitions, outsourcing and global expansion. Process management is the only way to achieve these objectives with transparency, management control and accountability. The process-managed enterprise grasps control of business processes and communicates with a universal process language that enables partners to execute on shared vision --to understand each other's operations in detail, jointly design processes and manage the entire lifecycle of their business improvement initiatives.

Process management is not another form of automation, a new killer-app or a fashionable new management theory. With the third-wave BPM breakthrough and its solid mathematical underpinnings, business processes can now be unhindered by the constraints of existing IT systems. Short on stories and long on insight and practical information, this book will help your business become the company of the future, the real-time enterprise, the fully digitized corporation --the process-managed enterprise. The book also offers continually updated information and a dialog with the authors at its Web site.

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This book shows the way.......2006-07-26

This book clearly outlines how process management has matured well beyond the reengineering phase and is blending with automation and quality management.

This book showed the way how Six Sigma is part of BPM and how BPM and SOA merge. It clearly relates technology and business opportunities. I be interested in an update, especially in relation to Peter Fingar's GREAT new book: Extreme Competition.

The Third Wave and Extreme Competition is a must read for every manager and MBA student.

THIS BOOK DOES NOT GET FULL STAR RATING AS IT LACKS CLEAR STEPS ON HOW TO MAKE THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN

Business Process Management - The Third Wave.......2006-04-05

This book can be summed up quote from page 70 of the text: "long on talk and short on results." I was very disappointed with the investment of any money in this hyped book. The authors ramble on and on and give little but their long winded examples of what they think the third wave is. My advice is to read the introduction and don't waste your time with the rest of the book.

Get it, read it, buy it if ..........2005-07-27

you want to improve business processes.

History of business process management and beyond.......2005-05-19

I run a business in Maine, USA, and while I have no knowledge of BPM or workflow in a business context, this book helped me a great deal. I don't know if BPM is an important as the authors state, but it did present the past, present and future of a simple idea, improving business by improving business processes. I can well imagine new BPM and workflow systems helping enormously. But what I liked most of all was the explanations of how process has been a thread throughout business, from the 1920s to today, through the quality and reengineering movements. I heard about this book on the grapevine like a lot of management books. I run an operation, and don't have time for theory, but this book put a lot of what happens in my IT department into context. I like the idea of people being in charge of the processes that run on engines maintained by IT folks.

Ahead of its time.......2005-05-19

Its well known that people in business who tout business processes can come unstuck when they encounter people who don't believe in process improvement. I am a process improvement director in a fast moving consumer goods company. Process works. But I have an awful job convincing some of my colleagues. This book tells the story, and was way ahead of its time when first published. Now the case studies are coming in (as reported by Gartner et al) and anyone doubting this book is going to eat humble pie. BPM works.

Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice

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A Rich crop...Well harvested...

Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice

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ASIN: 1591402700

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Knowledge Networks: Innovations Through Communities of Practice draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs in the real world and to present their combined wisdom in a form that is accessible to a wide audience. CoPs are examined from a practical, rather than a purely academic point of view. The book also examines the benefits that CoPs can bring to an organization, provides a number of case studies, lessons learned and sets of guidelines. It also looks at virtual CoPs and to the future by asking 'what next?' This book is a resource for all people who work with CoPs - both in academia and in the real world.

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A Rich crop...Well harvested..........2004-04-06

The management of knowledge is a diverse field of study and within the field new crops of ideas are constantly emerging. One of the most resource-rich crops is that of community of practice. Sometimes generic, often hybrid and capable of being genetically-modified they have vast potential in supporting knowledge ecologies.

The agricultural metaphor lends itself well to the nurturing of knowledge. Of course, this is not the first time it has been used nor will it be the last. My own particular interest in the metaphor is how it not only lends itself to communities of practice but also to the process of learning.

For the last three years, I have been involved in teaching a module entitled "Knowledge Management" to students Mastering in Information and Library Management at a University in the North East of England. During those three years, communities of practice have emerged as a significant tool in understanding the creation, capture and transfer of knowledge within and between organizations.

The method of teaching involves lectures (theory-based) and seminars (case study-based) with the use of specific tasks to link the two areas.

This collection of papers is, perhaps, the single most useful text to emerge for teaching the concept of communities of practice, how they relate to managing knowledge within organizations and how they are cultivated and developed. It is abundant in well-researched and relevant commentary, which avoids the jargon of other works. The case studies are particularly useful to information management students trying to understand the relationship between information and knowledge management.

Congratulations to the editors for their conceptualization of the structure and identification of appropriate areas of content and to the individual authors for the quality of their contributions.

Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis
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Excellent Modelling Approach

Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis
Marc Lankhorst
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An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language.

Lankhorst and his co-authors present such an enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from ‘as-is’ to ‘to-be’, the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues.

The modelling language and the other techniques presented have been proven in practice in many real-life case studies. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.

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Excellent Modelling Approach.......2007-01-19

This is first in its kind book that tackles enterprise architecture modeling with a holistic approach. Book presents a unified modeling approach for enterprise architecture and simplifies the relationship between architecture domains with a simple Meta model. It also deals with communication and analysis aspect nicely.

This does not provide any details about what architecture development process should be nor it gives any insight on choosing an architecture framework. So set your expectation before buying. AS book title says it is about modeling, communication and Analysis.

RFID Strategic Implementation and ROI: A Practical Roadmap to Success

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The use of this reading
RFID info for you or your company
Solid overview of RFID technology.

RFID Strategic Implementation and ROI: A Practical Roadmap to Success
Charles Poirier , and Duncan Mccollum
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With Wal-Mart, the US Department of Defense and other large organizations putting their collective endorsement on the benefits of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), their suppliers are challenged to find real business value in compliance and adoption of RFID. This book helps readers comprehend the basics of RFID, the fundamental technology and components, the various applications, business issues and potential benefits. It then presents a clear roadmap for RFID implementation and successful adoption by manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.

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Shows where RFID technology is evolving and what that evolution will mean to business leaders within these industries in terms of potential benefits and costs
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Review of "RFID Strategic ...".......2006-11-12

The delivery was prompt and the book arrived in good condition.

The use of this reading.......2006-06-22

...Great overview for anyone looking to understand the excitement behind RFID. A solid presentation of case material to understand the real business value of RFID.

RFID info for you or your company.......2006-06-15

I found the organization of information just right for anyone looking to get a good foundation and practical information about the emerging RFID technology. The introduction was well done and easy to understand from a layman's view. The authors provided a clear and accurate overview of where the technology started, moved to, and is positioning for in the future. The examples used and the case studies provided, all combined to whet the reader's appetite for more information about RFID. The easy reading style, and the balance of ideas, make this not a technical book that turns off the non-technical person but one that encourages further exploration. If you are looking at a career in RFID technology or getting your company positioned to take advantage of the potential of the technology, start with this book.

Solid overview of RFID technology........2006-03-21

As a systems integration architect I see RFID playing an ever-increasing role in data capture and information management. However it has been difficult to find objective, fact based, information on RFID. Most books that deal with the subject, focus solely on the physics. This book provided me with a good broad overview of where and how RFID is being used, the challenges as well as the opportunities involved in deployment and the various issues involved in adoption of RFID for a business. I would highly recommend this book for anyone seeking a good understanding of the business value of RFID.

Managing Technological Innovation: Competitive Advantage from Change

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Verbose, dull, and utterly uninspiring
The Big Picture on Management of Technology
Too simple and too much introductory -not for grad student

Managing Technological Innovation: Competitive Advantage from Change
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Management of technology (MOT) is the crossroads at which technological strategy meets business strategy to create new business opportunities. Managing Technological Innovation introduces technology management and illustrates the importance of managing information technologies, as well as how MOT is carried out with today’s physical, biological, and information technologies. New material for this edition examines the ethical side of technology to address advances made in biotechnology and human genome research.

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Verbose, dull, and utterly uninspiring.......2004-04-06

This textbook was a requirement for a graduate-level course taught by (guess who?) Dr. Betz. I had read the entire book before the class even started (thank god for coffee), and I re-read every chapter as the semester progressed. I received an 'A' on every assignment, which is good, considering that I was bored out of my mind with the material. The book has a few interesting anecdotes, and a lot of page-filler anecdotes. It is more concerned with scientifically correct vocabulary than giving context to concept in plain English (e.g. endless ranting about physical morphologies, schematic logic, and different flavors of paradigms -- YAAAWN). Overall, this forgettable piece of work is reflective of an uninspiring academic.

The Big Picture on Management of Technology.......2003-03-26

Betz's book qualifies as a "seminal work" on the subject of the Management of Technology. The book is concise and well-written.
It gives the needed historical perspective on technology issues.

To give you an idea of the scope and clarity of Betz's vision I note that he aptly summarizes the technological history of the world in a few paragraphs of his introduction. These most pithy sentences present a Big Picture that will serve as the backdrop to his cogent exploration of contemporary management of technology issues (a sample):

"The gun ended the ancient dominance of the feudal warrior, and the printing press secularized knowledge. The combination of the rise of the mercantile class and the secularization of knowledge are hallmarks of modern societies."

Betz brings together a lot of good research and presents it in a concise and stimulating format. He doesn't present the research as if the thinking had already been done. He ends each chapter with some questions for reflection.

Having written myself on the subject of intellectual property law [in the International Media Encyclopedia Academic Press 2002, 2003], I was amazed to find illuminating case studies on the subject that I had overlooked. For example, Betz explains that the drug Penacillin was not developed commercially until WWII because companies did not want to undertake development costs without a patent.

I highly recommend Betz's book both for Managers of Technology and for classroom use in Undergraduate and Graduate Business schools and perhaps even in Econ departments. While not an economics textbook it serves as a good introduction to technology issues for economists as well. Economists of course need to read the original papers by Schumpeter and Kondratieff, Sah and Stiglitz, but they will find important clues to the significance of those works here. I recommend the reader follow up this book by reading Hal Varian's Internet Economics or Paula Samuelson's publications on Intellectual Property along with Eric Reymond's
The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

I find the book's case studies well written and very thought provoking. I literally couldn't put the book down. At the first reading I skipped the main text to read the case studies on Apple, RCA and Ford.

Too simple and too much introductory -not for grad student.......1999-05-31

This book is too simple to use as a textbook. It's a nice book for undergrad class in business school or introductory class of management in engineering fields. Again, this is not the book that can be used as a textbook at all. Too simple and spend half book just for "roughly talking". Reader can found more reviews in "Interfaces, Vol.29, (2), 1999", in Book review section. The economic of technology is the more important is ignored in this book. Not recommend.

The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration Of Technology Into Everyday Life

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I received Wedding Workout!!!
Thought-provoking perspectives from IT cognoscenti
Highly Recommended!
Information Age crystal ball
A "Must-Read" for Futurists

The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration Of Technology Into Everyday Life

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Book Description

Today's leading visionaries discuss the future of information technology

How will E-commerce and E-consumers interact in 2020? What will the relationship between man and machine, man and information, and information and machine mean for future generations? The Invisible Future assembles an elite group of 17 business and academic leaders to answer these and many other fascinating, strategically critical questions. The original essays they provide are as provocative and as powerful as the topics they discuss.

This wide-ranging collection offers tactical insights into the future of technology and computing. Essential reading for executives engaged in strategic planning, and anyone interested in the future of technology, The Invisible Future includes never-before published essays by:

Rodney Brooks
John Seely Brown
Rita Colwell
Michael Dertouzos
Alan Kay
Ray Kurzweil
Bob Metcalfe
And more

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Customer Reviews:

I received Wedding Workout!!!.......2004-01-23

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Thought-provoking perspectives from IT cognoscenti.......2003-03-27

This is a collection of eighteen essays that came out of a 2001 ACM conference. The subjects centered around the future of computers in our lives, but some discussed robotics, bioscience, astrophysics and oceanography. Several focused on ubiquity or "ambient intelligence" as one author called it. Written by some leading minds in science, information technology and others, the essays discuss future challenges and possible scenarios in their respective fields.

While a few of the papers leaned to the pretentious or the superficial in their commentary, overall I found the essays to be informative and well written. The learned cast of writers included the likes of Michael Dertouzos (Director of the MIT Computer Science Lab), Alan Kay (a founder of Xerox PARC), Bob Metcalfe (co-inventor of Ethernet, WYSIWYG interface), John Seely Brown (Chief Scientist of Xerox), Rodney Brooks (Director of the AI Lab at MIT), Vint Cerf and Ray Kurzweil,. Most papers had a good list of references for further reading.

Highly Recommended!.......2002-03-23

The gates to the human genome have fallen, nano-technology is redefining life itself, and Moore's law continues to work its magic. But is there a dark side to the technology juggernaut? The answer provided by the contributors to this cutting-edge tome is a definite, "maybe." If technology cannot be made more human-centric - designed to respond to human wants and needs - its promise could indeed be thwarted. We from getAbstract strongly recommend this book to anyone whose work helps to hone technology's cutting edge, and for those who just hope to stay on the safe side of the blade.

Information Age crystal ball.......2001-11-22

If you are looking for some sound clues about the future being shaped by information technology, this book is for you. It's informative and insightful about what's coming down the information highway. It's also a good read, even for those of us who are not technocrats, but want to know how technology will affect our lives in the coming years.

A "Must-Read" for Futurists.......2001-11-08

As co-editor of NewsScan Daily, the Internet publication focused on the social aspects of information technology, I consider "The Invisible Future" a "Must-Read" because it offers so many thought-provoking essays for people interested in computers, in the future, or the future of computers. Peter Denning has brilliantly edited the book to focus on what 's really important about computers -- both now and in the future, both as they are and as they really ought to be (and will be).

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