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Iced Coffee: Summer Only or Year Round?
“Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.” -- Johann Sebastian Bach (Coffee Cantata, BWV 211)
Intellectual Property
It is impossible to overestimate the sensitivity of this topic but poke at it we will. As the "Rogers Curve" illustrates innovators will be smartly outnmbered by the partisans of the "Administrative State" that has found comfort in government and education communities. During today's colloquium we limit our inquiry to leading practice discovery and promulgation that informs the effectiveness of real assets of educational settlements everywhere.
Innovation and Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence
In May of this year NIST renamed and expanded its former "AI Safety Institute Consortium" into the NIST "Artificial Intelligence Consortium". This shift moves the focus from primarily safety toward AI measurement, innovation, adoption, and U.S. competitiveness. NIST is actively seeking new members. Participation involves a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Letters of interest are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Patents data at a glance
The Patents Dashboard provides important data on USPTO patent operations. Access refined pendency information, as well as other critical indicators such as the number of applications in the backlog, production, staffing and more. With link to a sample of universities support patent filing for students and faculty through their Technology Transfer Offices or Offices of Technology Commercialization.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
School Bonds Michigan
Inquiry into effect of our Safer-Simpler-Lower Cost-Longer Lasting agenda.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Sport News
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." — Earl Warren (American jurist and Chief Justice, often misattributed but widely quoted in sports contexts)