links for 2007-03-14

• Study Says Computers Give Big Boosts to Productivity - New York Times
  Money spent on computing technology delivers gains in worker productivity that are three to five times those of other investments, according to a study being published today. But the study also concluded that the information technology industry itself was
  (tags: technology computing productivity business work future_work)
• Halliburton's Dubai move sparks US political ire
  Halliburton's decision to move its base from Texas to Dubai sparked a political firestorm Monday as Senator Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats expressed outrage at the oil services giant. Halliburton, headed by Dick Cheney from 1995 to 2000 before h
  (tags: cities globalization)
• Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and social development in rural India - India PRwire
  Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services according to a new study by The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) commissioned by Nok
  (tags: india mobile development economic_development)
• The Robot Scientist
  "The Robot Scientist... represents the merging of increasingly automated and remotely controllable laboratory equipment and knowledge discovery techniques from Artificial Intelligence... in a microbiology laboratory."
  (tags: robotics science automation research biology)
• The appliance of science | Society Guardian | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
  Argues that "in order to make progress about how we manage climate change we have to take science off centre stage"-- not ignore it entirely, but recognize that climate change isn't a problem that can be "solved" like an equation or logic puzzle.
  (tags: environment climate_change science UK policy)