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Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension

Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-29

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Microsoft to detail planned changes in its fiscal reporting structure

won't save themNo matter how much monkey boy tries to obfuscate this criminal enterprise, it will still go down in flames.Microsoft Cooks Bookshttp://www.aaxnet.com/news/M990112.htmlMicrosoft fills the "cookie jar" in good times and dips into it in bad to create an appearance of steady growth. FTC does not approve of this accounting...

Tags: Litigation, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, government, fraud, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Can computers sort data like humans?

Can computers sort data like humans?. . . and we're still guessing.Gotta like the field of AI. These people claim "we'll have human intelligence in 50 or so years." Yet we have a slight problem: We haven't the slightest idea how to objectively measure intelligence, much less recreate it. We...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, John N. Warfield, OPMS

Discussion threads 2008-08-30

How to detect network vulnerabilities?

Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...

Tags: Software, Network, Vulnerability, George Mason University, CAULDRON, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-18

VA county a study in etech turnaround

The Washington Post profiles Loudon County, Va.s school system, which 10 years ago was "limping along" but was recently awarded the National School Boards Associations Technology Salute District award. In March, a group of national educators will visit Loudoun and the two other districts to see how those jurisdictions...

Tags: Corporate governance, WIRELESS, Loudoun, board, school system

Blog posts 2006-12-25

Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university

Hackers steal ID info from Virginia universityPar For The Course At Many UniversitiesMany university networks are so riddled with viruses and hackers that any unprotected PC is fair game and is compromised in a matter of minutes....University of Oklahoma's network is so overrun that an unprotected PC will last less...

Tags: Web servers, Social Security, Servers, Databases, Operational accounting, server, network, database, Web server

Discussion threads 2005-01-10