Word: platformization
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...understand the hype, take a look at Hewlett-Packard's experience with forecasting monthly sales. A few years back, HP commissioned Charles Plott, an economist from the California Institute of Technology, to set up a software trading platform. A few dozen employees, mostly product and finance managers, were each given about $50 in a trading account to bet on what they thought computer sales would be at the end of the month. If a salesman thought the company would sell between, say, $201 million and $210 million worth, he could buy a security--like a futures contract--for that prediction...
...June 3 but didn't dare to venture outside until well past dawn. The sight that greeted him is so commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night, was sprawled on a wooden platform used by the village's night watchmen, his T shirt pocked with bullet holes. Beneath the platform lay a pool of blood and the brass casings of the seven bullets that killed...
That's a mistake George W. Bush has been careful not to repeat. Though he ran in 2000 on a platform as hard edged as any President's since, well, Reagan's, he was careful to style himself that year as a "compassionate conservative." One of Bush's recent campaign commercialsa girl watches her father raising an American flag as a narrator assures us that "America is turning the corner"--could be an outtake from Reagan's famous 1984 "Morning in America" campaign...
...Truesdell says she does not believe that the club should avoid socially divisive issues, adding that members often differ with the party on some parts of the platform but “accept that there are more important things” that led them to support the party...
Allston development will focus on addressing “the increasing centrality of large-scale new platform technologies to our researchers’ needs (ranging from gene sequencing to high performance computing),” Hyman wrote...