Archive for September, 2012
National Debt, Michigan Trip, San Diego Sailing
3 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster September 25th, 2012 in Politics, San Diego.You may recall that during the Republican convention a month ago our national debt passed the $16 trillion mark. This works out to about $51,000 for every U.S. citizen, or about $140,000 for every taxpayer. This number is unbelievable to me — I think it is atrocious. Reducing this debt should be the number-one priority […]
I just learned that the University of Michigan has chosen the first fellow of the J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellows Program: Chih-Chun Chia. Chih-Chun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a research assistant in the Computational Biomarker Discovery and […]
Reaction to Planned Breakup of SAIC
28 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster September 14th, 2012 in Employee Ownership, SAIC.I would like to thank all of the current and former SAIC employees who responded to my post last week on the planned breakup of the company. While I am not surprised that so many of you posted your own opinions, I am surprised by the attention my post generated outside of SAIC. Washington Technology […]
SAIC’s Restructuring, Republican Convention, and Sea World
13 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster September 4th, 2012 in Politics, SAIC, San Diego.I was surprised, as likely many of you were, by SAIC’s announcement this past week about the company’s plan to split into two independent businesses. According to the articles I have read on the subject, the split will not be 50:50. Instead, one of the resulting companies will comprise SAIC’s “solutions” business, that is, research, […]