By John
22 April 2008
3:30 pm
Location: Flying to Vancouver
First, let me apologize for being absent from blogging for a bit. I’ve had an unusually busy and complex several weeks. Hopefully, you all found the guest blog from Andy Lippman interesting and had a chance to see some of the recent dialog I have had with other bloggers, such as Om Malik (GigaOM). One of the challenges of blogging when you have a few other full-time jobs is finding quality time to write and, ironically, when you’re not able to write it’s amazing just how much interesting content and dialog emerges, creating a pretty significant backlog of topics. I hope to tackle many of those topics in the coming weeks.
Over the last ...
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By John
8 April 2008
1:46 pm
I’m pleased today to host a guest blog from well-known industry thought leader Dr. Andrew Lippman. Andy, one of the founding directors of the MIT Media Lab, is half-way through a year-long sabbatical with Nortel as our first (but certainly not last) Visiting Fellow. The possibility of Andy doing his sabbatical at Nortel was explored by both sides during our Technical Conference last year, during which MIT hosted 300 of our top engineers for an evening event. A professor of Andy’s stature taking a sabbatical to work for a corporation is quite unique and says a great deal about Andy’s opinions of Nortel and our vision.
Among our key objectives in bringing a visionary like Andy into ...
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