Painted onto the sides of rural brick buildings, posted on billboards along major roads, and adorning fences everywhere were signs urging readers to pursue degrees in computerscience, hospitality services, architecture, and management.
In his search for business ideas, Hughes (a computer-science graduate of Boston College, where I serve as dean of the management school) was bridging distant worlds long before he teamed up with biologists.
University of Michigan computerscience and engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang will present their new power management approach Sept. 21 at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking in Las Vegas.