The House Science and Technology Committee is marking up today its version of a reauthorization (pdf) of the America COMPETES Act – the act that, when passed back in August 2007, marked the culmination of several years of effort to convince Congress and the Administration of the importance of buttressing support for federal investments in
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House S&T Marks up COMPETES Act Reauthorization Today
From the Computing Community Consortium blog (and CIFellows website): The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with anticipated funding from the National Science Foundation, are pleased to announce a new call for Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) for the 2010-11 academic year. The CIFellows Project is an opportunity for
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CRA and CCC Announce New Call for Computing Innovation Fellows
[Editor's Note: Each year, the Coalition for National Science Funding (of which CRA is a member) hosts a Capitol Hill science exposition featuring representatives from 30+ universities and scientific societies, all there to highlight the important research funded by the National Science Foundation for an audience of Members of Congress, congressional staffers, Administration and agency
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CRA Features Robotics at Annual Congressional Science Fair
MDRNA, a drug discovery and development company, has announced a study effort with Pfizer . The relationship will focus on the evaluation of MDRNA’s proprietary di-alkylated amino acids, or DiLA2, platform and UsiRNA constructs for RNA interference.
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Datamonitor: MDRNA and Pfizer form partnership
Heath Weber wrote this primer to sum up more than three years work leading Worldcom’s internal and external industry analyst relations program from 1999 to 2002. It prompted one of the first articles on Analyst Equity and, because we were disappointed to see that it’s now offline, we thought we’d republish it here. “The strongest
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Heath Weber’s primer on Industry Analyst Relations
Amazon.com , an online retailer, has announced that its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store. According to the company, the application lets users to select from more than 450,000 books from the Kindle Store on iPad and features Amazon Whispersync technology that saves and synchronizes customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, iPad , and more. (more…)
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Datamonitor: Amazon.com announces availability of Kindle App for iPad
Springboard’s acquisition of Hydrasight (discussed last month) and the expansion of Experton Group into the UK reflect a important shifting value curve in the analyst industry, with important implications for analyst relations managers. In our ‘Advisor Spotlight’ webinar on Thursday May 6, we’ll explain what’s happening, how to anticipate the changes, and what to do
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May webinar: Influencing analysts’ growing market for consulting
Since about 2001, the computing community – through CRA and others, and with lots of mention on this blog – has aired concerns about policy changes at the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department’s leading-edge research arm and arguably one of the two most important agencies in the history of computer science.
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The Change at DARPA
We’re releasing today the “Computing Degree and Enrollment Trends” portion of CRA’s annual survey of its member departments, the CRA Taulbee Survey, and are pleased to report that for the second straight year, the number of undergraduate students enrolled in computer science departments, and the number of new majors in computer science, have both increased
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CRA Taulbee Report: CS Enrollments, New Majors Up For 2nd Straight Year
New Datamonitor research has revealed that pharmaceutical companies will struggle to profit from the cardiovascular disease market over the next decade, despite growing drug usage. Patent expiries and generic competition will have a major impact and Datamonitor expects only AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk to generate positive sales growth in this sector out to 2018
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Datamonitor: Slow growth in cardiovascular disease will be offset by prospects in diabetes
If the analysts following your firm don’t take your international markets seriously, then there are three tactics to correct the situation: work out whether they take any international markets seriously, pinpoint and address the weaknesses of your international strategy, and focus more on analysts who do understand international markets. Here’s an example: One US-headquartered systems and
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When analysts don’t take international markets seriously…
Providers of ‘Green’ solutions can build momentum by focussing on the present and future economic benefits of sustainability when speaking with business people, but risk being disoriented by ‘Triple Bottom Line’ approaches that aim to shift the moral framework of business people. That’s the unwelcome conclusion I’ve come to after a conference for MBA graduates
Charles P. Thacker has been named the recipient of the 2009 A.M. Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his work in personal computing and networking. Thacker is currently a technical fellow at Microsoft Research, a Fellow of the ACM, has won several awards and citations, including the IEEE John von Neumann
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Thacker Awarded A.M. Turing Award
Springboard Research, the Singapore-headquartered firm which has continued to grow through the last year, has bought Hydrasight, an upmarket analyst and consulting organisation based in Australia. Springboard’s allowed AnalystEquity to break its embargo and speak about it in advance of the formal announcement tomorrow (online here). The two firms fit will together, with little redundancy between
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Springboard buys Hydrasight to exploit Gartner’s relative weakness in emerging markets
There is a huge opportunity for vendors to benefit from the generalised decline in the responsiveness of analyst relations. Most vendors fail to act in the knowledge of the last year’s changes, creating huge benefits for those AR teams that fill the gap. That is the overwhelming tone of conversations with around two dozen analysts
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How can we stop the decline of analyst relations?
CRA Board member and Government Affairs Committee Chair Fred Schneider will testify along with Phillip Bond of Tech America and David Bodenheimer of Crowell and Moring, LLP at a hearing of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, February 25 at 2:00 pm. The hearing will address
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HASC Hearing on DOD Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are a continual bone of contention between vendors and the analyst industry. Lighthouse feels that their impact is almost universally negative, especially in relation to briefings and analyst events. This post aims to outline the four main negative effects and respond to the three most commonly given reasons in favour of the
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NDAs mislead, slow, weaken and pressure analyst relationships
In our recent post on how analysts can make use of crowdsourcing, we mentioned a few discussions that touched on the topic including the Outsell webcast on “Information Industry Outlook 2010: Capturing Attention and Market Share”. CEO Anthea Stratigos and eight Outsell analysts presented their key predictions for 2010 along with recommended actions for
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Recording: How analysts can gain market share
There where two opportunities this Monday, February 15th, to meet Professor Efrem Mallach, one of the longest-established figures in the global analyst relations community. Efrem visited London to promote the forthcoming third edition of ‘Win them Over’the first book on analyst- and consultant-relations programmes. The Institute of Industry Analyst Relations invited Efrem to its
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Two meetings with Efrem Mallach in London
How can firms more effectively buy from analysts and put their insight to work? In a webinar recording now available at http://bit.ly/InsightServices, Lighthouse’s Duncan Chapple and Tony Law from Information Span discuss how firms can most effectively invest their time to insure that they are buying the right way. Law is an experienced buyer of analysts
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