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90% of the Cells in the Human Body Are, In Fact, Non-Human

No, this is not a reference to the latest Zombie movie and is not a typo.

I was reading the latest issue of Science magazine which listed its top science subjects for 2013 (it is that season for lists). Their top subject was Microbiome.

If my daughters were still in high school, microbiome would immediately be put down as an SAT word and added to the study list. From Wikipedia a microbiome is “the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share out body space”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiome. The word was created by Joshua Lederberg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Lederberg.

90% of the Cells in the Human Body Are, In Fact, Non-Human

Standards-Driven Application Development for Workforce Mobility

Tomorrow’s Bethesda AFCEA Breakfast meeting, https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=NOVE97E&TID=xhh5zkXBjYekK9OB0rp3Kw%3d%3d, is about application development within the Federal Government, a very relevant topic.

We are finding that the amount of reach-out to AMARC, www.amarcedu.org, from the Government relating to the creation and utilization of app-stores for Government utilization continues to increase.

Standards-Driven Application Development for Workforce Mobility

Implementing Innovation in Government

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<This blog post was originally published on Powertek Corporation’s website:

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and is republished here with their permission>

 

The issue of achieving innovation in Government is a pretty hot topic right now. In this blog entry, I talk about how well the Government is doing in being more innovative; explore some of the reasons why they have trouble doing so; and look at one agency that is doing significant innovative work with mobile technology to see what lessons we can learn from them. The current administration has done a good job of emphasizing the importance of innovation. Some examples of their action steps include:

Implementing Innovation in Government

Federal Cloud Computing Summit

AMARC, www.amarcedu.org, is hosting our next Federal Cloud Computing Summit, http://www.cloudfedsummit.com/, December 17 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC.

We will have panels on Innovation Today, Cloud Acquisition Solutions, Security Harmonization, and one I will moderate about Cloud Computing futures. In addition, we will have a presentation from Mitre of their Cloud Collaboration Sessions being held the afternoon before. They are looking at four government challenges:

  • Interoperability & Portability
  • End-to-End Service Delivery
  • Federal-Wide Standards for Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Cyber Security

Federal Cloud Computing Summit

Jumping the Shark

Tonight I went to and had a great time at the Bethesda Young AFCEA Fiscal New Year Networking Event. It was good to see long-time and newly initiated friends and be reminded that the current… Jumping the Shark

The Book Thief

So I have seen the trailer for the movie The Book Thief twice in the last week or two. And I teared up BOTH TIMES, I suspect that if my daughters ever actually read this… The Book Thief

Half of My Life

So today marks a pretty significant date in my life. As of today, September 22, 2013, I will have been married (to one person) for 50% of my life. It is not entirely clear what… Half of My Life