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Canadian university faces off with digital generation

Canadian university faces off with digital generationHow pathetically short-sighted...Like the article quoted, at least the students were being transparent by doing it as a forum. Doesn't the school, and even that technology director realize that, if the students wanted to cheat, all they'd have to do is set up...

Tags: Canadian University, Ryerson, digital generation, Chris Avenir

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Canadian university buys Dell supercomputer

Canadian university buys Dell supercomputerDoesn't seem like a very good dealLet's see, this computer costs $7 million and has a theoretical peak of 13.9 teraflops. Compare that with Virginia Tech's system or the new Mach 5 system the Army is setting up:http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc2004083_7126_tc153.htmVa Tech: 17.6 teraflops, $5.2 millionMach 5:...

Tags: supercomputer, Canadian University, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., teraflop

Discussion threads 2005-05-18

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Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Canada's York University now has the identities of five or six faculty members who anonymously questioned the academic credentials of a new dean. A Canadian court ordered Google and two ISPs to turn over the information. Does ISP data retention undercut academic freedom? by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Revitalizing a Medical Data Warehouse

At the center of the Canadian technology triangle that has Montreal, Quebec City, and New England at its corners, Sherbrooke is a vibrant city with the largest concentration of universities and colleges in the region. One of the most highly regarded institutions here is Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre, better known...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Intelligence, Storage, Servers, UNIX, Linux, Databases, Operating Systems, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

Canada claims battery coup

There are some scientists and engineers in Canada that think they've just built a better mousetrap. That is, they've developed a better and safer lithium-ion battery. The LifePO4 batteries are already being used around the globe. They use technology that was first patented in Texas, then further developed...

Tags: Battery, LifePO4 Battery, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Canadian Fire Safety Officer Puts SmartDraw and MobileEyes Responder to the Test

Since 1997, Rick Percival has been the fire prevention-safety officer for Environmental Health and Safety at Carleton University, One of Ottawa's largest post secondary educational institutions and the "Home away from home" to more than 25,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors. They needed a faster, more accurate and efficient way...

Tags: Officer, SmartDraw.com

Case studies 2009-05-06

Scientists accurately measure the 'edge of space'

The fuzzy point where the earth's atmosphere transitions into space has been detected by an instrument developed by scientists at the University of Calgary with "unprecedented detail". According to the team, space begins 118 km (73.3 miles) above Earth, which confirms what other scientists...

Tags: Earth, Scientist, Kilometer, C/C++, Team Management, Programming Languages, Network Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Networking, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Innovation and competition

The topic of how America competes economically in the present world has raised some crucial issues. Is there not a disconnect says one reader between innovation and competition? The best products and the best producers are NOT NECESSARILY THE SUCCESSFUL ONES. This talkback makes a solid point...

Tags: Innovation, Pollution, Offshoring, Product Win, Leadership, Outsourcing, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-01

Comparison in green

Last Wednesday The register carried two green related reports. One, headlined Canadian prof: Green IT is a waste of time: Digital nomads will destroy the planet was by Lewis Page, an anti-research, anti-military propagandist whose report grossly over simplifies, and thus misrepresents, the already over simplified press...

Tags: Report, Green IT, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-02-28

Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic

Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Protecting beer from bacteria

A Canadian PhD student from the University of Saskatchewan has a mission: saving beer from bacterial contamination. She's a member of 'one of only two labs in the world that studies beer spoilage.' And she jokes about what she's doing: 'It's a good conversation starter. I've gone through so many...

Tags: Beer, Bacteria, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-29

iGeneration 2008 in review

I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?

Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?Not a needed skillMany Chinese people are learning English from an early age.Imagine a situation in which a person with some Chinese in school is in a meeting with a Chinese person who has spent decades working on fluency in English. How likely...

Tags: Chinese People

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...

Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids

I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...

Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says

And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...

Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-15