The smart grid world is anything but simple. It encompasses many utility domains and dozens of specialized service areas that need to interoperate. Coupled with economic and regulatory pressures that demand more due diligence and investment foresight than ever before, it’s critical to know and understand the business, regulations and economics and apply this knowledge to optimize utility operations.
Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic and market strategy research firm. The firm’s website, Roubini.com, has been named one of the best economics web resources by BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.
He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.
He has published over 70 theoretical, empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and coauthored the books “Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence” (MIT Press, 1997) and “Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets” (Institute for International Economics, 2004) and “Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance” (Penguin Press, 2010). Dr. Roubini’s views on global economic issues are widely cited by the media, and he is a frequent commentator on various business news programs. He has been the subject of extended profiles in the New York Times Magazine and other leading current-affairs publications. The Financial Times has also provided extensive coverage of Dr. Roubini’s perspectives. Dr. Roubini received an undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a doctorate in economics at Harvard University. Prior to joining Stern, he was on the faculty of Yale University’s department of economics. Source
We are on the threshold of a new era. Our planet’s climate is at risk. Natural resources are growing scarce. In 2050, the number of people living in cities will be greater than the entire population of the Earth today. That’s why researchers, inventors, and engineers need to be more creative today than ever before. Computers as medical assistants, robots as household servants, sensory organs for electric cars, buildings as energy providers, farms in skyscrapers, power plants in the desert and on the high seas, supercomputers the size of a pea – these are not visions but almost tangible realities in laboratories all over the globe.
In a unique survey, science journalist and industry insider Ulrich Eberl vividly describes the key trends that will shape our lives – and how we ourselves can help to invent the world of tomorrow.
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Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. In these positions, he managed production of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates and other top-secret projections for the President and his national security advisers. Mr. Meyer is widely credited with being the first U.S. Government official to forecast the Soviet Union’s collapse — a forecast for which he later was awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, which is the Intelligence Community’s highest honor.
In this interview with Dr Nicholas Beecroft, Herb says why Western Civilisation is worth defending, why it’s the best civilisation so far and why it’s fast becoming THE global civilisation. He is very optimistic for the future but believes that the biggest challenge we face is in helping all of the rest of the world make it into modernity whilst minimising dangerous threats. He draws upon his experience in the vanguard of the defeat of the Soviet Communist system to inform our strategy to deal with existing challenges including Islamic Fundamentalism, Iran, Russia, demographic collapse, lack of faith in our civilisation, energy security and the domestic culture war.
This conference brings scholars from different disciplines – political science and international relations, sociology, history, economics, demography and philosophy – into a discussion on the nature of predictions in international security. It will address the following questions. How are claims about the future made in international security, a professional realm that is obsessed with knowing the future? How are these claims “sold” on the public marketplace of ideas? Is anticipating the future about anticipating change?
A sort of “Facebook” for academics, a social networks that allows to be in contact with the academic community and share information and papers online.
A daily selection of the most interesting articles on philosophy, criticism, history, music, aesthetics, literature etc., edited by the philosopher Denis Dutton. A service of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
An interdisciplinary lab at the interface between the humanities the social sciences and the cognitive sciences. An electronic archive page allows you to access online research works of the Jean Nicod Institute’s members.
An interdisciplinary virtual institute of cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy, with interesting online discussions, reviews of books and other material.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. We encourage authors at interdisciplines to gather their bibliographies through Me
Project Zero is a Harvard University program whose mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.
An interesting project on the visualization of science. The Science of Science project is also a software downloadable from the Web the allows you to map science according to your creativity.
In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, UNSW physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.
Machines are evolving 10 million times faster than man. In 100 years time, robots will run our houses, drive our vehicles, patrol our streets, operate on our bodies, and fight…
With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions,…
Published on Jan 31, 2013
The New Digital Age is a book written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. Eric Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Google and Jared Cohen is…
In one fell swoop, Microsoft was praying that it could stitch up the mobile and desktop platforms into one neat little package; instead, I fear that Microsoft may have blown…
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I worked with Digital Agency of the Year, Work Club, to produce an illustrated animation and typeface celebrating the flavour characteristics of ?Ballantines 12 Year Old?, a premium blended Scotch whisky. My involvement was split into two parts. Firstly, I illustrated the seven main tasting notes as illuminated letters, with each letter telling the story of […]
The idea of the campaign was "Think Again". Try to change the point of view of the viewer when they see something, so the aim was to create metaphors out of usual objects as a gummy, a screw, a sponge or a dandelion. […]
PLAYGROUND DECONSTRUCTED is a site-specific installation that brings minimalist art to life as an immersive audio-visual world. Commissioned by Sonos Studio for Museum of Moving Image, NY […]
Brand identity for Ibsesn Fabrikker. A small eyecatching company that delivers all kinds of inflatabel, fiberglass and mascots. www.ibsensfabrikker.dk www.bamsefabrikken.dk www.figurfabrikken.dk www.luftfabrikken.dk Project between Form Agenda and Dead Voltage. […]
People probably don't associate my work with sci-fi genre so much. What they don't know is that I was a HUGE sci-fi geek growing up. (yes!) Though I don't get a lot of sci-fi related jobs, there are some in my recent works. I picked some recent book cover jobs that are in theme of science fiction. […]
We developed a wayfinding which is also an identity for new health and entertainment center opened within Voskresenskoe club-hotel near Moscow. One of the tasks was not only to create comfortable navigation system, but also to position the center as an independent place that offers services also for people who live near the hotel territory in Voskresenskoe d […]
Get up close and personal with the gibbous moon in a search for the impact crater left behind by the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the lunar surface. This live show starts comes via the Slooh Space Camera and begins tonight at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST. […]
Tesla haters just lost another quiver in their dwindling arsenal. The upstart electric automaker has paid off the entirety of its Department of Energy loan -- a whopping $451.8M -- and did it nine years ahead of schedule. […]
Everyone was putting on a cheery face and plenty of back-slapping was going around, but there was no mistaking the feeling that the company was about to take a big gamble. […]
For most, Star Wars was about a band of rebels standing up to a totalitarian regime, but for others it was all about Luke Skywalker's pants, apparently. […]
This is the Navy's MQ-4C Triton, its next-generation surveillance drone. It just flew its first flight test out in California. And it wants to scan 2,000 miles of ocean at once. […]
Tiny spiders with oversized rumps have been discovered in China. The little arachnids, each about a mm long, represent two new species of orb-weaving spider. They belong to the Mysmenidae family of orb-weavers, and were described on May 21 in the journal ZooKeys. […]
With just a few weeks to go until the release of Man of Steel, Warner Bros. has unleashed an action-packed new trailer to hype their Superman summer flick. […]
For those of you bemoaning the demise of Google Reader, fear not. Zite, the personalized news app, has stepped up to fill its place. At least partially. […]
An FBI interview with an Orlando man believed to have known Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took a deadly and unclear turn early this morning. […]
Designers love creating homages to their favorite Disney characters (e.g., turning the iconic princesses into zombies and hipsters), but if they ever tried to sell those designs they would be faced with a foe scarier than Cruella de Vil ? Disney's legal department. […]
Freelance innkeepers across New York City shuddered this week as a judge found that a man renting out his East Village apartment on Airbnb was violating the state's occupancy code. The decision isn't the first time that city and state laws in New York have stymied the so-called sharing economy. […]
Caleb Cole loves used clothing. His mom used to take him to thrift shops and yard sales long before Brooklyn hipsters and Macklemore made it cool. Over the years he's come across some amazing vintage goods and always wondered about the original owners. Who were they? What did their lives look like? […]
The BMW Guggenheim Lab released today their full list of urban trends gleaned from almost six months' worth of workshops held in Mumbai, Berlin, and New York City. […]
The new Phorus speaker system provides multi-room wireless audio streaming over Wi-Fi. It uses the new Android-based Play-Fi lossless streaming protocol. […]
With the resignation of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, goes the progress made toward transparent governance and a two-state solution. […]
Looking at scenes of the Boston sidewalk a few hours after Monday’s bombing — torn clothing, bloodstains, shards of glass — I found my mind going back to a similar sidewalk in Tel Aviv in September 2003. A Hamas suicide bomber had blown himself up at a bus stop outside the Tsrifin army base, and by coincidence I was nearby and got there to witness the immedi […]
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