U.S. Park Police, in front of the White House. April
2011.
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Alan Kotok
Technology News and Literature provides quality news reporting on the intersection of science, technology, business, and public policy. This site provides links to current and previous work, including online services, books, articles, white papers, and photography.
Recent work online and in print
- Seeking Alpha. Minding The Alternative Energy Commercialization Gap. 7 May 2012. Among the companies encouraging action on alternative energies are commercial airlines, who have historically suffered from world oil price fluctuations, and developers of bio-based aviation fuel alternatives.
- Seeking Alpha. Health Care Report Connects Dots Between Genomic Research And Patient Records. 17 April 2012. An editorial in the journal Science Translational Medicine calls for reducing the barriers now limiting the connections between research on the human genome and electronic health records, with opportunities for businesses in the health care field.
- Seeking Alpha. New Examples Of Open Innovation To Stimulate Company R&D. 27 March 2012. Two announcements in the past two weeks -- by Unilever and Eli Lilly and Company -- highlight ways companies tap the wisdom of crowds to supplement their research and development capabilities.
- SoftXML. A Taxing Note About XML. 18 March 2012. As much as we hate to pay taxes, tax authorities still need to collect them, and in the case of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, that collection job is now made possible by XML.
- Seeking Alpha. Innovations Needed In Both Process And Product To Revitalize American Manufacturing. 27 February 2012. To revitalize America's manufacturing base, said speakers at a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, D.C., the U.S. needs innovations in the way products are made as much as innovations that create the next big thing.
- SoftXML. XML Registries Core of New U.S. Aviation Weather Platform. 6 February 2012. The new USA air traffic control system called NextGen will be based on advanced GPS technology, rather than the current radar-based approach, with weather data organized around an electronic-business concept called registry and repository.
- Science Business. Commentary: Manufacturing the Health Care Venture Crisis. 27 November 2011. The National Venture Capital Association used selected bits and pieces from its survey to predict a retreat by investors from U.S. life sciences companies.
- Technorati. Friendly to What Business?. 1 October 2011. If states want the big bucks from big brains and the benefits they bring, then they need to make the work being done and people doing the work feel at home.
- Alan Kotok, storified by Local Pigeon, a social media developer. 22 August 2011
- Technorati. Health Care Costs and Health Care Spending -- Not the Same Thing. 11 July 2011. If you want to control health care spending, you first have to control health care costs.
- Technorati. Why American Manufacturing Rocks. 19 June 2011. Innovations built on brainpower rather than race-to-the-bottom cheap labor are propelling American manufacturing and exports.

