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Creativity solves museum's engineering challenges: When planning San Francisco's new California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park, engineers ran across a few design challenges that demanded clever solutions. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi explains how they borrowed ideas from other areas of engineering--from roller coasters to submarines--to solve those problems.; Tags: Creativity, News.com, San Francisco, Academy of Sciences, Kara Tsuboi, roller coasters, submarines; Videos 2008-01-18
Academy of Sciences' 5D design: With its undulating garden-topped roof, twin domes, and environmentally-friendly features, this $484 million project is one of a kind. Building it was understandably a challenge. News.com reporter, Kara Tsuboi, learns more about the "virtual building" program that took architect Renzo Piano's sketches and made them a reality.; Tags: Sketch, Academy of Sciences, architecture, virtual building, design; Videos 2007-12-17

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Cooking Academy (zip): Cooking Academy game - Grab your oven mitts and don your Chef's Hat. Cooking Academy is the game that places you in the kitchens of a prestigious culinary school. From Pancakes to Creme Brulee, prepare over 50 different recipes. Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering the skills of chopping,...; Tags: GreenAppleGames, Games, Food & Beverage, Personal Technology, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2008-07-17
TriviNET - Trivial Online (Spanish) (rar): With TriviNET you will be able to demonstrate everything what you know and to learn about which you do not know. It is a classic game of questions and answers, but with a very interesting additive, you play online with and against players worldwide. You will be able to respond...; Tags: Argentina, TriviNET, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-07-15
CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spending: CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spendingOpportunity for more OutsourcingLook for firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation (i.e. consistently screwed customers), Affiliated Computer Services always screwed customers, et al to take marketing advantage of this situation by promising to reduce those nasty IT costs salaried American workers and...; Tags: second-half; Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source: Yahoo has opened its search for developers to customize in its latest step in what it calls its Open Strategy, a plan to make Yahoo a platform. The effort is dubbed Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., BOSS, RealNetwork, Open Source, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Your correspondence so far: It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...; Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-06-29
How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?: How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...; Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
20% drop in Computer Science majors in 2008: The Computing Research Association found a 20% drop in 2008 in students completing bachelors degrees in professional IT fields. Enrollment in undergraduate degree programs in computer sciences is more than 50% lower than it was 5 years ago, the group said. Between 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 the number of new students...; Tags: Job, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, AM; Blog posts 2008-06-23
Terremark on target with green data center buildout near nation's Capitol: This represents my final post this month about green data center buildouts that have been pitched to me in the past several weeks. I actually first wrote last fall about the facility in question, Terremark Worldwide's new NAP of the Capitol Region in Culpepper, Va. The new information in this...; Tags: Data Center, Terremark Worldwide, Reserve, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-22
Italian Renaissance Screensaver - 800 Paintings (exe): Art of the Italian Renaissance Screensaver - Over 800 paintings displayed on your computer screen, over 100 artists, spanning over 400 years. The Renaissance was a spark of brilliant creativity, ingenuity, and excellence in the Arts and Sciences, which grew to inspire the globe. Works by Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botticelli,...; Tags: Screensaver, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-06-20
Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level: MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...; Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-17
Physical security - laptops or desktops: Physical security - laptops or desktopsLojack & Asset TagsHow about LoJack (or similar, http://www.lojackforlaptops.com/learn-more-lojack-for-laptops.asp) and some Secure-IT STOP anti-theft asset tags (http://www.secure-it.com/shop/product_info.php/products_id/34)???Make the parents sign a laptop permission form....You should have both the student and the student's parents sign a permission/waiver form that acknowledges the school's ownership of the laptop,...; Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, desktop, physical security; Discussion threads 2008-06-13
Robofish teams of underwater robots: Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...; Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-07
Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?: Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?FDA Approval ProcessI believe that you are confusing the issue of grandfathering to devices before 1976 and the requirement to submit what the FDA calls a 510K in order to use device similarity to an already grandfathered device.Most new medical devices are 3 or...; Tags: Federal government, HEALTHCARE, FDA-Approval Process, FDA-approval, FDA; Discussion threads 2008-06-05
Dumbing down our math tests?: Dumbing down our math tests?Two factors at work.One, the "we mustn't make anyone feel bad" syndrome.And, two, the old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. You and I both know there's more than a little truth in that saying.Combine the two, mix in a little union, and...; Tags: Dumbing Down, math test, education; Discussion threads 2008-06-05
New fingerprint detection technology: Researchers at the University of Leicester, UK, working with Northamptonshire Police, have found a new technique for identifying fingerprints on metal. This method will enable forensic scientists to 'visualise fingerprints' even after the print itself has been removed. What is even more interesting is that this technology could 'enhance --...; Tags: Technique, Fingerprint, Metal, Metal Surface, Results, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-04
Conversation with Platform Computing's Songnian Zhou: Platform Computing has been a player in virtual processing and management software for virtualized resources since 1992. Platform LSF has been the company's flagship product since those early days. It has found a home in electronics, financial services, government, life sciences, manufacturing and oil/gas. I've been following them since I...; Tags: Environment, Platform Computing Inc., Grid Environment, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-06-03
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,...; Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-02
Got science?: Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...; Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson; Discussion threads 2008-05-30