When I first started in the telecom business I worked for a guy named Charlie Snell. Charlie left General Motors after more than 20 years because he was fed-up. Charlie would regale us at lunch with tales of an environment that stifled any creativity and innovation. This was 25 years
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Have you ever seen an image with two things that just don’t seem to go together? I had that experience last week on a train from London to Brussels. The woman next to me was reading a magazine and the image on the page just didn’t look right. I took
Oil is still flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and the World Cup is underway in South Africa but those stories were pushed off the front pages for a while to make room for the really big news. Of course, I’m referring to AT&T’s announcement that new customers will no
Sir Richard Branson is a very cool guy. He has a self-made $4 billion fortune, knighthood, a global business empire, and a private Caribbean island - and to top it off, he’s closing in on 60 with hair like I had in the ‘70s. I mean, this is one cool
This past Wednesday was my son’s 20th birthday. His first two decades of life have been remarkably different than mine were. I grew-up analog, he grew-up digital. To appreciate and understand my son and his friends, I relied on the baby boomer’s essential field guides for understanding the Net Generation;
Yannick Noah was the last Frenchman to win the French Open men’s singles title. That was in 1983. This past summer, that long streak was in jeopardy as Parisian Gaël Monfils advanced to the quarterfinals. His opponent at Roland Garros would be the great Roger Federer on the afternoon of
There was a time, not all that long ago, when telecom executives could understand all the major technology trends expected to impact the business over the next few years. For example, if you wanted to know why packet switching was more efficient for data traffic than circuit switching, you talked
Cynthia Marshall, president of AT&T North Carolina introduced Dr. Goodnight to an audience of telecom executives at the North Carolina Telecommunications Industry Association’s 78th annual convention. AT&T has joined Dr. Goodnight in supporting his 1-to-1 computing initiative and Ms. Marshall asked the audience members to also join this worthy cause.
Chris Volinsky, Director of Statistical Research at AT&T Labs delivered the keynote address to the communications industry track at the 2008 SAS Global Forum. At that time I wrote a blog entry about Chris's hobby, competing for the $1,000,000 Netflix Prize. The Netflix prize is an example of using mass collaboration.
Chris Volinsky, the director of statistical research at AT&T Labs, will deliver the keynote address for the communications industry track at SAS Global Forum in San Antonio. In addition to his expertise in advanced analytics for telecommunications, Chris is a member of a team of researchers that provided the best