Today, after hosting Lt Col James Bishop of the Westover Air Reserve base in my Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare class, meeting with co...

The title of the talk -- Politics of Sustainability -- intrigued me and it was heavily promoted on the UMass Amherst website, so I gathered...

Collaborations are great for science and they are also fun. It is very rewarding when you work together on challenging problems that you a...

Virtual communications are terrific but receiving a heavy package at your door that has traveled thousands of miles and comes as a complete ...

The 2011 IEEE Conference on Supernetworks and System Management has now come to an end. It took place in Shanghai, China, May 29-30, 2011. K...

The PAKDD 2011 Conference begins today in Shenzhen, China. My keynote talk, prepared for this conference, is: Supernetworks: Opportunities...

Now that the academic year has come to a close with celebratory graduations and associated events in the past, I have begun to pack for my t...

I had received the invitation via email but it did not compare to the formal invitation that arrived in the envelope above. With all the vir...

The AACSB International: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, which is the primary accrediting body for Business Schoo...

Supernetworks are big in China and two of my collaborators, Professor June Dong and Professor Patrick Qiang, are now in Shanghai discussing ...

Do you know the value of the parts in your iPhone and what it took to put them all together? The way to calculate the various costs of the c...

After the painful loss today of the US soccer team to Ghana's at the World Cup in South Africa, resulting in the US team being eliminat...

Next Thursday and Friday will be very special. On Thursday, March 26, 2009, Patrick Qiang is scheduled to defend his doctoral dissertation ,...