Tag: Innovators’ Summit

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Staying Green, and in the Black with CheckFree

Do you pay your bills online? I do, and I love the fact that it’s now my computer, not me, keeping up with when the credit card bill is due, how much I owe, what I paid last month, etc., etc. Instead of a “bill drawer” stuffed with envelopes containing

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Sall: Outliers can be diamonds, not dirt

Historically, statistics have been used to prove things that are already known, rather than to find new things. “But statistics can also lead to discoveries if you have the right attitude – one that is open to discovery,” John Sall told participants at the Innovators’ Summit this morning. For instance,

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Yes, it’s rocket science

Since Dr. Dimitri Mavris took the stage yesterday at the Innovators’ Summit, I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things about his talk. In fact, even John Sall called Dr. Mavris his hero. And why not? Dr. Mavris runs Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab, where industry and academia come together like

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Overheard at the Innovators’ Summit

“Using JMP, our company saved $6 million in the first six months of this year. Even for a company that brings in $100 million a month, that’s a lot of money.” – Oil industry representative at Sunday night Welcome Dinner “The ultimate purpose of collecting data is to provide a

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"There’s nothing more overrated than a good idea."

How do you make sure every engineer, statistician and innovator in an audience is awake and ready to participate the first morning of a two-day learning event? You challenge their concept of innovation and you say that there’s nothing more overrated than a good idea. That’s what MIT visionary and