INSIDE WISCONSIN
Get insights on technology, the economy and politics through "Inside Wisconsin" by Tom StillInsideWis: Don’t be surprised when economic data and public perception fail to align
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The two-horse race for the presidency may not satisfy people who wished for different candidates atop the Republican and Democratic tickets, but it has at least focused the debate on how well the American economy is – or isn’t –...
InsideWis: Amid the seeming chaos, legislative work gets done
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – It’s more than tempting for the average Wisconsin citizen to believe the state Capitol is a place where the daily agenda is limited to threats of recall elections, fights over gerrymandered political maps and other partisan divisiveness....
InsideWis: Can ‘Big Science’ take place in Wisconsin? It’s an open question
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The term “big science” was first used in 1961 by physicist Alvin Weinberg, then director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to describe the notion that some problems could only be solved through big facilities and tools, big teams of...
InsideWis: All in a day: A mix of research victories – large and small
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The titles of the 150 or so posters on display in the Capitol’s Rotunda sounded just as impressive as what might be found at a symposium of doctoral students – such as “The cost of clean water: An efficiency analysis of Wisconsin’s water...
InsideWis: In effort to control drug prices, feds could devastate innovation
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Firefighting drones, Honeycrisp apples, major underpinnings of the internet, airport sensors to detect shoe bombs, nicotine patches, manufacturing processes, quantum computing and tests, vaccines or cures for diseases and conditions such...
InsideWis: How can AI make manufacturing in Wisconsin stronger? Let’s ask AI.
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – One of the more perplexing results from a recent survey conducted for the Wisconsin Manufacturing Report revolved around how manufacturing executives think of artificial intelligence. The answer was “not much.” Of the 415 executives polled...