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- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
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- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
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- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Study: Silent patching best for securing browsers
- Google's decision to silently update the Chrome browser -- without the user's knowledge or consent --Â has put the company at the head of the pack when it comes to securing modern Web browsers. That's the big takeaway from a new study that argues that silent...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Supercomputer performs prostate surgery
- A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Can Deep Green help a combat commander?
- University of Southern California USC researchers are developing several parts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Deep Green program. Their efforts are intended to help commanders on the battlefield to anticipate enemy moves. 'The system interweaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Bar code sales tool is failing campus test
- Bar code sales tool is failing campus testRE: Bar codes sales tool is failing campus test.The last sentence says it all:[b]Why should I pay for advertising???[/b]I agree!!!!! It amounts to just another way the wireless carriers can [i]nickle and dime you to death.[/i]RE: Bar code sales tool is failing...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- A robotic taxi named robuCAB
- According to ICT Results, a EU-funded project named Embounded 'has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory goals, of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.' One example is the robuCAB, a '4 seats automated people mover' developed by a French company and built from a 4 wheel-drive electric chassis with...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- A necklace that checks the pills you take
- I'm sure you've already failed to take some pills ordered by your physician. In fact, one in three adults forgets to take their medicines, and for lots of different reasons. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a solution for this problem which costs billions of dollars...
- Blog posts 2008-03-08
- Virtual factories under your fingers
- We've seen lots of multi-touch tables recently, but many of them were designed for gamers. The one developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany is designed for engineers. This Multi-Touch table screen allows to inspect virtual factories. As 'many industrial processes involve reactions in places that are difficult to see...
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Epicor Software Case Study: The Manufacturing Institute
- As a non-profit organization, over 13,000 manufacturers have benefited from the proven, hands-on productivity and skills improvements that The Manufacturing Institute delivers. To this end, The Manufacturing Institute formed a cross-functional team to look at business process re-engineering alongside the deployment of a new business system. By mid-2004, this committee...
- Case studies 2007-12-21
- Commercial brain computer systems are coming
- All over the world, systems that directly connect silicon circuits to brains are under development, and some are nearly ready for commercial applications, according to a new report from the World Technology Evaluation Center and announced by a news release of the University of Southern California USC. Some of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Collaborating in virtual environments
- Engineers have been using collaborating tools in virtual reality environments for almost 20 years. Now, South Korean and Japanese researchers have tried to compare different experiences of users working together using the Virtual Dollhouse application where two people working together have to build a virtual dollhouse using virtual building blocks,...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Stopping failure in its tracks
- Some IT projects become a negative self-fulfilling prophecy, gaining a drive toward failure that seems inevitable. How can one interrupt this downward spiral before it's too late? In an article called Surviving Failure, Watts S. Humphrey, founder the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at...
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Teaching Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: An Experience Report From the Manaus Research and Development Pole
- The number of microprocessors and microcontrollers being applied to modern computational systems is growing exponentially. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find engineers with the necessary skills for developing software for such devices. In fact, the creation of official undergraduate courses to fulfill this modern demand proved not to be...
- White papers 2007-10-13
- Perceptive Software Case Study: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the nation's top research universities, is renowned for its leadership and innovative academic environment. In the mid-1990s, Georgia Tech began a broad initiative to re-engineer its business processes campuswide to build better customer service and open the lines of communication among university departments. The...
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- More antitrust tilting
- Clearly, the silt churned up by the European Court of First Instance's ruling last week has not cleared. So much for my promise that last Friday's post would be my last blog on the topic. As reported yesterday, a Brussels-based think tank which goes by the name...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Will the electric utility be your server hoster? Or will Amazon be our electric utility?
- On the heels of last week's coverage where I pointed out how the Uptime Institute's chief analyst Bruce Taylor had referred to salesforce.com as being unethical because, in his estimation, the CRM/SFA service provider experience two avoidable datacenter outtages in 2006, I've been e-mailing back and forth with salesforce.com APEX...
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com)
- Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com)UNETHICAL??????????I have to agree with you on this case. A crash doesn't mean they are unethical in practice. I inherently think of it as, like you mentioned, a growing pain. But take into consideration, What caused the crash? Was it...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- A virtual chainsaw to train lumberjacks
- German researchers have developed a virtual chainsaw for a tool manufacturer. By using the concept of 'mixed reality,' which combines the real world and virtual reality, they've created a simulation tool to train workers to use dangerous tools with no risk to be harmed. As they said, 'It looks like...
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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