CSR in the Real World
This was presented to me as a take on the client relationship within the advertising industry, but I feel it applies equally well to any industry that negoiates pricing contracts:
Archive for May, 2009
‘Viagra scientist’ dies at 92
Robert Furchgott, the nobel-prize winning scientist, died at age 92 on 5/19/2009.
[WARNING: JOKE ALERTS]
A closed casket ceremony was planned for his funeral. Unfortunately, this was not possible for obvious reasons.
OR
Instead of flying the US flag at half-mast in his honor…
Science smackdown brewing…
The holy grail of the search engine technology is to basically create what people can do on Star Trek. Just speak out loud something like “Computer, to reach Rigel V in less than 12 minutes, what warp speed must the Enterprise travel” and have the computer respond “4.7″.
Well, two major players are well on their way to [pun alert] making it so. The one I just learned about is called Wolfram Alpha. It doesn’t have a public version yet - but I have requested to become a beta tester. I’ll let you know if they grant my request. BBC Story.
The other tool has been live for a long time. Check it out: START, the world’s first Web-based question answering system.
