{"id":4903,"date":"2012-11-23T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2012-11-23T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T03:29:10","slug":"looking-to-industry-for-the-next-digital-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4903","title":{"rendered":"Looking to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/24\/technology\/internet\/ge-looks-to-industry-for-the-next-digital-disruption.html?pagewanted=2&#038;smid=tw-nytimes&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Steve Lohr<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>When Sharoda Paul finished a postdoctoral fellowship last year at the Palo Alto Research Center, she did what most of her peers do \u2014 considered a job at a big Silicon Valley company, in her case, Google. But instead, Ms. Paul, a 31-year-old expert in social computing, went to work for General Electric.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Paul is one of more than 250 engineers recruited in the last year and a half to G.E.\u2019s new software center here, in the East Bay of San Francisco. The company plans to increase that work force of computer scientists and software developers to 400, and to invest $1 billion in the center by 2015. The buildup is part of G.E\u2019s big bet on what it calls the \u201cindustrial Internet,\u201d bringing digital intelligence to the physical world of industry as never before.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of Internet-connected machines that collect data and communicate, often called the \u201cInternet of Things,\u201d has been around for years. Information technology companies, too, are pursuing this emerging field. I.B.M. has its \u201cSmarter Planet\u201d projects, while Cisco champions the \u201cInternet of Everything.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Lohr: When Sharoda Paul finished a postdoctoral fellowship last year at the Palo Alto Research Center, she did what most of her peers do \u2014 considered a job at a big Silicon Valley company, in her case, Google. But instead, Ms. Paul, a 31-year-old expert in social computing, went to work for General Electric. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}