The Foundations and Amalgamation of Miike Nitrogen Industries Inc. and Toyo Koatsu Industries Inc.

Digital Transformation in Latecomer Industries: CIO and CEO Leadership Lessons from Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc

Unlike digitally savvy banking and retail industries, oil and natural gas businesses are latecomers to digitization. With large capital investments in complex industrial operations, firms in latecomer industries are seeking ways to cut costs and become responsive to market demands. Executives in oil and natural gas companies are facing unprecedented pressure to cut costs due to market turbulenc...

eCopy, Inc

Genentech, Inc

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...

EntreMed, Inc

Golgi reported an " internal reticular apparatus " in neurons — a structure now known as the Golgi apparatus. Although this is by far his best-remembered work, Golgi made many other important scientific discoveries in his lifetime (1843–1926), and in 1906 shared the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal for their studies on the structure of the nervous system. As we...

Lucid, Inc.

Multiprocessing programming languages must support the styles of programming that are natural to the programmer, and they must be able to express all of the forms of concurrency that exist. Qlisp, a dialect of Lisp, is proposed as a multiprocessing programming language which is suitable for studying the styles of parallel programming. There are two sorts of parallelism in Qlisp: 1) the true par...