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Integrating Financial and Non-Financial Information to Enhance Strategic Decision-Making Capabilities at McMaster University

This paper covers the process involved in developing a university-wide decision support system at McMaster University, for both financial and non-financial data. Over the past few years, McMaster has been designing and building a data warehouse based on enterprise-wide information needs. The data warehouse is being built incrementally along with...

Tags: McMaster University, Financial, Decision-making, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2009-02-27

Don't just play it, create it!

The McMaster University in Canada has designed an innovative program to train students who think their future is in game design. It has deployed a spaceship-like interactive motion simulator to teach them how to develop software for simulated flight or real-time game design. As the university explains in "Virtual reality...

Tags: simulator, McMaster University

Blog posts 2006-09-22

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