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20 People Who Changed Tech: An Wang
May 20, 2013 09:06 AM How easy-to-use, single-application systems changed the face of computing, communications and business decision-making.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Ken Olsen
May 13, 2013 09:06 AM Before DEC, computing was scarce and precious. After DEC, computing costs dropped like a rock.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: General Georges Doriot
May 06, 2013 09:06 AM Georges Doriot – aka "The General" – understood that prosperity requires both innovation and strong management. He used that philosophy to invent the venture capital industry.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Moore, Noyce & Hoerni
April 29, 2013 09:06 AM Three mavericks, part of the Traitorous Eight, help found Silicon Valley and the semiconductor industry.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain
April 22, 2013 09:06 AM All hail the transistor, the building block of the computer, communications and space ages.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Mauchly And Eckert
April 15, 2013 09:06 AM In this seventh installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles the men behind the ENIAC.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Marconi And Tesla
April 08, 2013 09:06 AM In this sixth installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles the pioneers of radio.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Thomas Edison
April 01, 2013 09:06 AM In this fifth installment in our series, Howard Anderson chats up the Wizard of Menlo Park.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Alexander Graham Bell And Theodore Vail
March 25, 2013 09:06 AM In this fourth installment in our series, Howard Anderson tells how a masterful inventor and a business genius transformed communications.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Samuel Morse
March 18, 2013 09:06 AM In this third installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles a world-class artist turned inventor of a building block for today's computers.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Francis Cabot Lowell
March 11, 2013 09:06 AM In this second installment in our series, Howard Anderson profiles one of the great thieves and populizers of the Industrial Revolution.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: James Watt
March 04, 2013 08:36 AM In this first of a series on the great technical minds of history, Howard Anderson chronicles the enormous impact of the inventor of the steam engine.
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Why Private Clouds Will Prevail
November 02, 2012 09:06 AM Stu Laura, our irascible CIO, discusses the promise and pressures of private clouds.
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How Middle-Aged Microsoft Can Save Itself
September 17, 2012 09:06 AM Microsoft must reverse the five stages of decline before hubris descends into irrelevance, and it's too late.
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Microsoft A Victim Of Its Own Success
July 20, 2012 11:10 AM For all its cash and market advantages, Microsoft is a company in decline.
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CIOs: Know Thy Power Brokers
May 23, 2012 11:42 AM Our intrepid CIO, Stu Laura, reflects on where to find and cultivate the true power in an IT organization.
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The Myth Of Big Data
March 08, 2012 10:27 AM It's time to check in with our good buddy Stu Laura, CIO Supreme, about big data and what his company is doing about it.
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What Steve Jobs Was, And Wasn't
October 07, 2011 10:14 AM He was demanding, persistent, and supremely self-confident. Jobs 1: absolute excellence.
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The CIO Vs. The Information Access Mafia
August 02, 2011 10:43 AM Stu Laura, our intrepid CIO, takes on a failed and flawed model: providing Least Access to data.
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Forget Farmville: We Need CIO-Ville Or Call Of CIO Duty
June 07, 2011 08:00 AM Our intrepid CIO friend, Stu Laura, suggests that if the military can use computer games to help recruiting, why not the IT profession? Warning: If you can't have a sense of humor about the treachery in your own industry, don't play.
Bio
Howard Anderson, founder of Yankee Group and co-founder of Battery Ventures, is currently the William Porter Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT. He can be reached at handerson@mit.edu.
By The Numbers
Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012
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