Ken Krechmer’s papers are divided into Measurement and Isology studies. Isology studies are subdivided into Applications and Theory. Each group of studies is listed chronologically. Click where indicated to read further.
Isology Applications Papers
“The Role of Technical Standards in Enabling the Future“, an invited paper, was published February 2021 in the 50th anniversary issue of The Bridge, a US journal of the National Academy of Engineering.
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The following link provides the PDF version: The Role of Technical Standards in Enabling the Future.
The history of civilization from hunter-gatherer, agrarian, city states, manufacturing, information age, to the internet age may be identified by the successions of technical references/standards that are developed—symbols, measurements, designs, similarity, compatibility, and adaptability. Each new succession results in a paradigm change, enabling increased value creation: bartering, counting and measuring, building, manufacturing, networks, and openness. Standards successions offer an evolutionary technology model, showing why and how market control occurs and where new value is created. By extension this evolutionary model also suggests ideas for the future.
The history of civilization from hunter-gatherer, agrarian, city states, manufacturing, information age, to the internet age may be identified by the successions of technical references/standards that are developed—symbols, measurements, designs, similarity, compatibility, and adaptability. Each new succession results in a paradigm change, enabling increased value creation: bartering, counting and measuring, building, manufacturing, networks, and openness. Standards successions offer an evolutionary technology model, showing why and how market control occurs and where new value is created. By extension this evolutionary model also suggests ideas for the future.
“Standardization: A Primer” was an invited paper presented at Kaleidoscope 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 5, 2014. The presentation slides can be found here.
“Cloud computing standardization” was submitted to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) – IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Challenge 2012. This paper received first prize, and was presented in Oslo, Norway, October 5, 2012.
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It has been published in How does electrotechnology impact economic, social and environmental development? Winning papers from the IEC-IEEE Challenge 2012, p. 15-25, Geneva, Switzerland. Copyright by the IEC, Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved. It is reproduced here with permission. Further information on the IEC is available from www.iec.ch.
“Exploring Adaptable Access in Next Generation Networks” was presented at the Innovations in NGN: Future Network and Services, 2008. First ITU-T Kaleidoscope Academic Conference, Geneva, Switzerland May 13, 2008 and is published in the proceedings of that conference and IEEE Xplore.
“Teaching Standards to Engineers” was published in The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, Vol. 5 No. 2, July- December 2007.
“The Entrepreneur and Standards” was originally submitted to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as part of the IEC Centenary Challenge 2006, organized in association with “The Economist”, and in partnership with the IEEE, the IET and VDE. This paper received the joint second prize on December 14, 2006.
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It has been published in International Standardization as a Strategic Tool: Commended Papers from the IEC Centenary Challenge 2006, p. 143-154. Geneva, Switzerland: International Electrotechnical Commission. It is copyright by the IEC, Geneva, Switzerland. All rights reserved. It is reproduced here with their permission. Further information on the IEC and the IEC Centenary Challenge is available from www.iec.ch.