Blockchain Impact

You’re gonna have to come back around for another explanation…..not that I doubt the long term potential…..I just need additional explanation!

The Future….Really?

  When we broached the topic of a theme for the upcoming annual Member Forum, I wanted to have it be forward looking.  The future of technology….hmmm….what in the world does that mean?  Given the breadth of the technology we all deal with and the pace...

Big Data and Supercomputing is Changing the World

  I am on my way back from the Quilt http://www.thequilt.net/ winter meetings in beautiful La Jolla CA.  While it was hard to ignore the fact that it was 85 degrees all week while back home was feeling the brunt of snowstorms and record breaking frigid...

IT at the Table

  The concept that IT should be a strategic element of most any organization these days has been the talk of the town in recent years. Granted, we mostly hear advocacy for that position coming from the IT camp but slowly the “business” side of the house is...

Can we be the “Biggest Little State”?

  As I write this, I am on a plane flying back from Oklahoma where I was visiting OneNet, the Oklahoma Regional Research and Education Network (REN).  I am always struck by the challenges the larger state RENs have in just reaching their member sites, not...

LOLA

In 1979, I was in the second row of a Kinks concert at the Providence Civic Center singing the words to “LOLA” at the top of my lungs.  I can proudly say that the event was recorded and I am now immortalized on the Kinks “One for the Road” live album…..along with...

“Tis the Season

  I stopped in yesterday at Quidnessett Elementary School to listen to the holiday concert put on by the students.  My wife works there in the after school programs so I try and do what I can to show support for their activities but the truth is that I am a...