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Reexamining Information Systems Success Through the Information Technology Professionals Perspective

The study in this paper applied an approach taken from organizational development circles named "Appreciative inquiry" to enhance understanding of the organizational environment, management practices, and sociocognitive determinants that are associated with successful information systems projects. In a series of 31 interviews and seven focus groups, IT professionals from various...

Tags: Information System, Case Western Reserve University, IT Professional, Information Systems Project, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-02-20

Finding a needle in a haystack of data

Finding useful information in oceans of data is an increasingly complex problem in many scientific areas. This is why researchers from Case Western Reserve University CWRU have created new statistical techniques to isolate useful signals buried in large datasets coming from particle physics experiments, such as the ones run in...

Tags: particle physic, Case Western Reserve University, haystack

Blog posts 2005-12-07

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Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...

Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'

China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...

Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

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...

Tags: Games, Sales force management, Bar code sales tool

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Toward greener jet fuels

Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5 million, is focused on developing computational models that accurately simulate the burning of jet fuel, a complex process...

Tags: Princeton University, Petroleum, Aerospace, Alternative Fuel, Aerospace & Defense, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-21

Even as first woman wins Turing award, it's hard to find a woman in compsci

Despite the fact that a woman won high-techs most prestigious award this year, the industry woefully lacks in training and recruiting women into engineering and programming, reports USAToday. IBMs Fran Allen became the first woman to win the A.M. Turing Award for computing recently but shes still a...

Tags: Education Technology, Computer science

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Black diamonds come from space

Two teams of U.S. researchers have found that carbonados -- or black diamonds -- come from outer space. Helped with funds from the National Science Foundation NSF, they discovered nitrogen and hydrogen in these porous black diamonds found only in Brazil and the Central African Republic. And these elements are...

Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, diamond

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Hello Cleveland, the world's most "intelligent community"

As Wayne and Garth said in "Wayne's World," "Hello, Cleveland!!"No, not my idea of a joke. I'm serious. Credit a diligent community broadband effort for the assertion.Serious as the Intelligent Community Forum, ICF an international think tank that concentrates on economic and job development in the broadband economy.The ICF...

Tags: broadband

Blog posts 2006-01-21

Practicing medicine on robo-patients

These days, it seems that robots are very busy delivering drugs in hospitals or replacing nurses, doctors and even surgeons. But robots also can replace human patients. For example, at McMaster University in Canada, medical students are using robo-patients to practice their clinical skills before they reach human patients. Their...

Tags: patient, McMaster University, robot

Blog posts 2005-12-12