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Some recent trends….

Some recent trends…. David R. Maidment Center for Research in Water Resources University of Texas at Austin. US Labor Productivity in Manufacturing. GDP ($ trillions) US 14.6 China 5.7 Japan 5.4 Germany 3.3. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41415001/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/.

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Some recent trends….

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  1. Some recent trends…. David R. Maidment Center for Research in Water Resources University of Texas at Austin

  2. US Labor Productivity inManufacturing GDP ($ trillions) US 14.6 China 5.7 Japan 5.4 Germany 3.3 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41415001/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/ …. increased production with 4 million fewer jobs

  3. Visualizing Friendship – Facebook Connections http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919 … people are being connected

  4. Social Media Helped to Foster a Revolt Tahrir Square Cairo …. Twitter and Facebook play a key role Pictures: NY Times, MSNBC

  5. HuffPost has 200 employees and 6000 bloggers who write for free …. …. aggregating content from other web service providers …. It was sold to AOL on February 7, 2011, for $315 million

  6. iPad Book Reader …. will electronic books be the norm in the future?

  7. Hand-Held Devices • Give information to them? • Obtain information from them? • Harvesting and filtering twitter feeds? • Posting information to online maps?

  8. Information in Hydrology • Hydrology is an observational discipline • Data are a key input • Efficient use of information technology is a key to engineering productivity • Smarter engineering • Information is going electronic • Paperless engineering • Virtual workplaces are growing • Electronically networked communities

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