January 12, 2011
At age 32, Marcel Melanson of the Compton Fire Department in California is one of the youngest battalion chiefs in America, yet he conveys a mature vision: to improve public safety nationwide. Melanson has used his platform on the reality show First In to engage corporate partners, including Cisco, which is building a wireless network in Compton linked to a citywide camera system.
January 11, 2011
The “eureka!” moment came for Charles Darwin in October 1838, as he was reading something Thomas Malthus had written about population. All of a sudden, the basic algorithm of natural selection popped into his head. At least, that’s how the story goes. In truth, there was no single aha moment.