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- Photos: A look inside the green, high-tech Genzyme Center
- This platinum-level, LEED-certified green building uses building automation for daylighting, fresh air and to lower energy costs.Biotech company Genzyme went green when it built its corporate headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Called Genzyme Center, the 4-year-old building is a Platinum-level LEED-certified green building, the highest level possible. (LEED stands for Leadership...
- Tags: That', photograph, atrium, building', Genzyme Corp., mirror, daylight, motor, hawk, sensor, roof, ceiling, foe, coal, tile, wind, burst, sunlight, Cambridge, automation, certification, collaboration, Germany, wall, leadership, U.S., environment, computer, network
- Image galleries 2007-08-22
- Online Harvard Graduate School of Education: Teacher Development Program Drives Instructional Reform in Cambridge Public Schools
- Wide-scale Interactive Development for Educators WIDE World, an innovative professional development program run by the Harvard Graduate School of Education HGSE, successfully pairs online coursework and face-to-face support for practicing teachers. WIDE World teamed with educators from the Cambridge Massachusetts School District's Project COOL (Collaborative Online/Offline Learning) to extend, deepen,...
- Tags: Education, Cambridge, Cisco Systems Inc., Teacher
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- Novell Case Study: Microsoft
- With global competitive pressures, customer expectations, and more complex support problems on the rise, software giant Microsoft wanted to implement a customer service system that would enable it - and other leading high-tech companies - to communicate customer service issues among partners, vendors, and key customers. And, as a result,...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Cambridge, Customer Service, Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Finance, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- A time and need for service innovation, education
- The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...
- Tags: services, IBM
- News items 2008-07-10
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed “from the ground up” to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...
- Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Mainframes, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe, content management system, IBM Corp., IBM O/S, zVSE, memory, MVS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Lessons from American university education
- I sometimes "relax" by logging on to PalTalk, a system designed for real-time voice chat, finding rooms where I can debate important issues related to politics or economics. I'm not always successful, as it's surprising how often those forums descend into free-for-alls where individuals take turns at the mic throwing...
- Tags: Education, University, Europe, American University, University Of South Dakota, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Update that wishlist - I just tried a MacBook Air
- I took a group of students to Cambridge yesterday for a field trip. I turned them loose in Harvard Square for a while, we wandered around MIT, and took in the Museum of Science. The most interesting part of the trip for me, however, was a stop at...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Multitouch, Keyboards, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Google vs. educational databases
- Google vs. educational databasesGoogle vs. Educational Databases: Some CommentsINTERNET SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES :DATABASES :OPINIONS:Google vs. Educational Databases: Some CommentsThis post is a response to a discussion on ZDNet Education cited in thispost on Net-Gold:INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS AND SERVICES :DATABASES:Google vs. Educational DatabasesThere are a number of observations that can...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, JStor, database, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?
- OK, so this does look cool: OLPC's XO2 is a touchscreen-only book-like device that serves as ebook reader, media player, computer and presumably game machine. Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the specs of the new machine at a press conference in Cambridge. Some crucial facts: estimated cost $75, displays from Pixel...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Business imperatives theme dominates Forrester's IT Forum conference opener
- Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Mass. market research and analysis firm, kicked off its influential IT Forum conference today in Las Vegas with a keynote address by founder and Chairman George Colony on CEO success imperatives. What the success imperatives do you have? Colony asked a series of...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- The color of disease
- Sickle cell anemia. Lactose intolerance. Melanoma. There are many conditions which affect one race more than others. They are not entirely race-specific, but the differences are real. Partly against this backdrop the folks at MIT will host a conference this weekend titled "What's the Use...
- Tags: Race, Federal Government, Biotechnology, Healthcare, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Connecting to a virtual machine (Hyper-V virtualization in action)
- Connecting to a virtual machine (Hyper-V virtualization in action)Virtualization SystemsAny reason there hasn't been virtual machines before on PC's?I first worked with virtual systems on CP67 and / or CMS Cambridge Monitoring System, in the late 60's on machines that were a thousand times the size and power requirements and...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtual machine, virtualization, Hyper-V virtualization, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Green tech cars will not get any federal help until November
- Green tech cars will not get any federal help until NovemberThe Business of Politics is more important.. than trifling issues such as the environment, climate change etc. These are a mere bagatelle compared to the weighty issues that occupy the minds of the power that be and will be! Any...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Green tech car, federal help, green technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- A wireless retrofit for remote monitoring
- Cambridge Consultants has demonstrated a one-chip platform called Vena which adds wireless technology to existing health monitors for just $10 per unit. Vena includes support for both IEEE 11073 and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile. Security is also built-in. What we're talking about is the...
- Tags: Wireless Technology, Monitoring, Health Care, Vena, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary for Palm OS (exe)
- The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary provides definitions for about 170,000 words, phrases and examples and is compiled to offer what learners need most in a dictionary. The Second Edition offers new, up-to-date vocabulary, new 'mini-collocation' boxes, and new frequency information to highlight the most important words to learn. The new...
- Tags: Mobile, Operating System, Palm Inc., Mobile System, Dictionary, Cambridge Advanced Learner, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-03-21
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- 25 environmental threats in our futureBio-fuels: The biggest environmental threatSorry for the "tree hugging" people who think that bio-fuels are a solution to the energy crisis. But the truth is bio-fuels are the BIGGEST environmental tread for the future.Why you ask:#1- You are destroying a food source to...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Bio-fuel, Biofuels, food, crop, environmental threat
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- Environmental scientists and policy makers have done some deep brainstorming sessions about our future, according to this article in New Scientist. 35 representatives from organizations involved in environmental policy, academia, scientific journalism in the UK have used what they call 'horizon scanning.' They've established a list of 25 future novel...
- Tags: Scientist, Threat, U.K., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Whatever happened to Microsoft's 'other' mesh projects?
- "Mesh" is the hot new buzzword in Microsoft land, thanks to remarks about Microsoft's future direction made by Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie earlier this month. But there is more than one "mesh" in Redmond. Ozzie outlined his vision for future device and social-networking meshes. But...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Corp., ShareNETS, Mesh Networking, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
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