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Dr John Davies Leads the Next Generation Web research group within the IT Futures Centre at BT. Current interests centre around the application of semantic web and Web 2.0 technology to knowledge management, business intelligence, information integration and service-oriented environments. John is chairman of the European many papers and books in the area of semantic technology and its business applications, web-based information management and knowledge management; and has served on the program committee of numerous conferences in these areas. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. Earlier research at BT let to the development of a set of knowledge management tools which are the subject of a number of patents. These tools ere spun out of Bt and are now marketed by Infonic Ltd, of which John is Group Technical Advisor.John received the BT Technology Award for Technology Entrepreneurship for his contribution to the Creation of Infonic. John can be contacted at john.nj.davies@bt.com.
David Brown is Head of the Foresight team in BT Research and Venturing where his key role is to help BT and its customers manage the future. His role is particularly important to the development of BT, and along with the contribution so his other team members, he is successfully predicting fast-paced changes in technology. This ensures that BT invests widely and continues to offer the right services needed by customers, both for today and tomorrow. David has written many articles on technology strategy and economics. Previous reasonability within his time at BT includes leading teams in the network strategy, product management and applications development fields. Before joining BT, David worked for ICL as a systems engineer. David gained a BSc in Mathematics from Durham University and h olds a Sloan Fellowship MSc in Economics from the London Business School. David can be contacted at dave.g.brown@bt.com
Editor Biographies | |
List of Contributors | |
Foreword | |
Introduction | |
People and Technology. | |
Predicting the Socio-technical Future (and Other Myths) | |
Social Networks, Social Computing and Knowledge Management | |
Device Futures | |
Online Trust and Customer Power: The Emergence of Customer Advocacy | |
Building the Infrastructure. | |
The Semantic Web - From Vision to Reality | |
Flexible ICT Infrastructure | |
Achieving Security in Enterprise IT | |
The Future All Optical Network - Why We Need It and How We Get There | |
End-to-End Service Level Agreements for Complex ICT Solutions | |
Mobility and ICT | |
Pervasive Computing | |
Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age | |
Applying Technology. | |
Healthcare | |
Supply Chain Management in the Retail Sector | |
Technology Innovation in Global Financial Markets | |
Technology and Law: The Not So Odd Couple | |
Final Words. | |
Over the Horizon | |
Conclusions | |
Index | |
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