Lueny Morell

Open Innovation at HP Labs

The role of HP Labs, the central research arm of Hewlett-Packard, is to look beyond the roadmap of currently offered products and services and solve some exciting technical problems that will be critical to customers. The paper mentions that active collaboration with academic, commercial, and government partners augments and accelerates knowledge creation and technology transfer.

An engineering curriculum track for IT for sustainability

Information technology (IT) forms a crucial foundation for designing, building and managing future sustainable cities. This paper proposes a model to innovate the engineering and computing curriculum to include sustainability and IT topics in order to develop the skills and competencies that future professionals will need to design, build and manage future cities. Rather than developing a new program, we propose a curriculum model - called SustainIT -adapted from the successful 2006 US NAE Gordon Prize engineering curriculum innovation, The Learning Factory - as a possible roadmap to reform and complement existing Bachelors of Science (BS) degrees in engineering. By providing a series of guided electives, any engineering program may offer engineering, and/or computer science students the opportunity to learn about and become specialized in IT for Sustainability. Multidisciplinary topics include traditional ecological engineering; life-cycle design; design and application of resource microgrids; pervasive sensing and data aggregation; knowledge discovery, data mining and visualization; and, policy based control and operation for resource provisioning.

University Relations for Capacity Building—Highlights of HP’s Program

The purpose of this panel was to give visibility to some of the efforts of a large global company to build capacity in the world.2 A few in the audience confirmed afterwards that their preconceptions of corporations had changed — they could now tentatively allow that maybe corporations could do good as well as do well, and in fact, that maybe some companies understand that they will do better by doing good. Several other attendees proposed projects for collaboration, and indeed collaboration has ensued.