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Aug 26, 2016

Lessons Learned…From My Father

Earlier this month my father and namesake retired at 77 years young after a 55-year career in science. That same day I was asked about...

Jul 29, 2016

I’ve recently been asked a great deal about government and the tech industry. That’s new and surprising. Over the last decade or so, the...

Jul 15, 2016

For years now, the term “Silicon Prairie” has been applied to the Illinois and Chicago tech communities, in a forced bit of branding that...

Jun 14, 2016

There is little doubt that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big technological advancement. Gartner predicts that by 2020 there...

Jun 6, 2016

Since the beginning of this year, a recurring question has been popping up in my conversations with Chicago tech professionals: “Why...

Apr 23, 2016

For tech communities outside of Silicon Valley, there is a lot of talk about how to be “the next Silicon Valley,” the theory being that...