LSEG Workspace as the Central Spreadsheet Grid for Eurodollars
LSEG Workspace is a giant live spreadsheet that organizes the eurodollar system into cells and formulas. Treasuries and Fed rates are the anchor cells. Repo, FX swaps, and offshore deposits are formula-driven references.
Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 1
This post outlines the critical importance of tech firms establishing powerful competitive advantages, particularly economies of scale, network effects, and customer captivity. Drawing from “Curse of the Mogul,” it emphasizes that success in a market’s structure depends on establishing strong barriers to entry or achieving operational efficiencies, rather than relying solely on brands, deep pockets, talent, global reach, or first-mover status.
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 4: Generative AI for Video Synthesis
AI can now take text prompts and generate full-motion video, thanks to a new class of models called text-to-video generative AI. These models interpret natural language descriptions and produce short video clips with varying levels of realism and coherence. These instruction sets guide the AI’s generation and synthesis of “tokens” – data points that are combined into the visual sequence through various algorithmic processes.
AI and Government: Concerns Shaped from Classic Public Administration Writings
Drawing on the classics of public administration, we can start to specify some constraints and goals for artificial intelligence (AI) and develop a “smart” but ethical government that is efficient but also responsive to public concerns.
The Lasting Impact of ALOHAnet and Norman Abramson
The success and influence of ALOHAnet proved that multiple devices could share the same communication medium effectively, ultimately helping shape the modern landscape of wired and wireless networking.
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 3: Digital FX Emerges
“To succeed predictably, disruptors must be good theorists.” – Clayton Christensen I had a chance to attend a special showing of The Wrath of Khan (1982), the second Star Trek movie, with my daughter a few years ago at the University of Texas in Austin. It included a live appearance by William Shatner, who starred […]
Al Gore, Atari Democrats, and the “Invention” of the Internet
The data communications infrastructure, undoubtedly the world’s largest machine, required a set of political skills, both collective and individualized, to be implemented. In addition to the engineering skills that created the famed data packets and their TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol) protocols, political skills were needed for the funding, for the regulatory changes, and the global power needed to guide the international frameworks that shape what are now often called Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 2: Non-Linear Editing
I examine the transformation of post-production practices with the advent of Non-linear Editing (NLE) and digital-enabled special effects (F/X), paying particular attention to the introduction of the Avid NLE. These technologies came about when computer micro-processing power was sufficiently miniaturized, and software applications became efficient enough for immediate interaction.
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Professor (full) at State University of New York (SUNY) Korea since 2016. Research Professor for Stony Brook University. Moved to Austin, Texas in August 2012 to join the Digital Media Management program at St. Edwards University. Spent the previous decade on the faculty at New York University teaching and researching information systems, digital economics, and global political economy
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