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From today’s NY Times is an article spelling out a change that I think will have far-reaching consequences for what we think of as "business systems." THE Internet is entering its Lego era. Indeed, blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating on the Web and developers are joining them together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs. ...

The Society now has a new blog called The Worldwide Fight Against Cancer. It’s–as you’d expect–about our activities in other countries. Personally, I think this is the biggest opportunity we have to extend our work, and it’ll be huge in the future. One conundrum however: How long can we stay the American Cancer Society if be expand like gangbusters into ...

Say "Hi!" to FISpace’s newest contributor, Jennifer Podoll. Jennifer is Vice President of Marketing in the Society’s Eastern Division, New York.  So, Jennifer, welcome to the  FISpace gang!

Here’s a link to a story that has been reported everywhere on the net today: IBM announced that it has made the first nanoscale integrated circuit from a single carbon nanotube molecule. Oooh! Ahhh!…Eh, so what? It means that the Moore’s Law of creating faster, smaller, cheaper electronic circuits that are at the heart of every communications system we have ...