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- Better products or just better marketing?
- Oregon State University is reporting a significant increase in Mac usage among its faculty, according to MacNN. While the article focuses on OSU, there seems to be a growing trend to look someplace other than Vista when purchasing new computers. Water-cooler conversations with other faculty at my high...
- Tags: Marketing, Apple Macintosh, Oregon State University, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., PC Ad, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Genetic research creates dwarf trees
- Researchers at the Oregon State University OSU have used genetic manipulations to create midget trees. In fact, they can control tree height. For example, 'natural' poplars can reach 150 feet or more. These forest scientists have created poplars growing only to a height of 6 inches after two years. They...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Fixing spreadsheet errors
- Admit it: when you look at a spreadsheet, you trust the results. You don't question the totals or the percentages you see. But data, and formulas used to compute what appear in the spreadsheet cells, are both prone to errors. According to computer scientists from Oregon State University OSU, 90%...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- The mystery of Oregon's 'dead zone'
- The area off Cape Perpetua on the central Oregon coast is now a gigantic crab and fish graveyard. It was first discovered in 2002, but according to the Christian Science Monitor, researchers at Oregon State University OSU have taken a close-up look into this coastal dead zone. And things are...
- Tags: crab, dead zone, zone, Oregon State University
- Blog posts 2006-08-26
- The Future of Bluetooth: Attacks and Counter-Measures
- Bluetooth is by far the most popular protocol for wireless ad hoc networking on the market today. It easily manages the dynamically changing topologies of the ad hoc network, provides fairly reliable connections and allows office networks to work easily across both wired and wireless connections. However, Bluetooth has its...
- Tags: Oregon State University, Network, Attack, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2004-12-08
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- Machine learning coupled with 'rich interaction' may make computers a partner, not a product
- Researchers at Oregon State University are hoping to improve artificial intelligence with a project the uses "rich interaction" to teach machines when they make mistakes. Their work would allow for ordinary users who spot a computer's errors to be able to step in and explain directly to...
- Tags: Computer, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similarities
- On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similaritiesSpreadsheet risk conference in the city of KervielThe European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG is holding its 2009 conference "The Role of Spreadsheets in Organisational Excellence" on the 2nd ? 3rd July 2009 at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Cachan, Paris, France. The keynote speakers...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, SocGen, keynote speaker
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- 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
- High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology
- What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- RIAA gets student names, can't do much with them
- The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA was provided with a list of student names flagged as file sharers at Oklahoma State University when a judge threatened to hold the school in contempt. However, according to Ars Technica, because some of the students are represented by an attorney, RIAA...
- Tags: RIAA, Litigation, Digital Media, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Helium leads to geothermal energy resources
- When we think about alternative sources of energy, we often forget the potential of geothermal energy resources. In fact, it has been estimated that accessible geothermal energy in the U.S. represents 90 quadrillion kilowatt-hours or 3,000 times the country's total annual energy consumption. So far, it has been difficult and...
- Tags: Earth, Researcher, Fluid, Energy, Arizona State University, Energy Resource, Web Site Development, Productivity, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- U of Oregon fights RIAA subpoenas
- The fight against the RIAA seems to be lining up some serious firepower. The University of Oregon and the state's attorney general are asking a federal judge to quash a subpoena issued by the recording industry seeking the names of 17 unidentified UO students, says Ars Technica. The RIAA's...
- Tags: School, Recording Industry, RIAA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Global Neighbor makes the grass greener
- Cutting the grass was one of those household chores that had a special significance for my brothers and me in high school: My father owned about eight acres in New Jersey, a full five of which were covered with grass. For some reason, I always pulled push-mower...
- Tags: Neighbor, Grass, Global Neighbor, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- How big should the Linux kernel be?
- How big should the Linux kernel be?I don't see a downside for the size of the kernel treeYes, in theory there is a downside once a kernel tree gets too big, but I haven't seen any evidence that Linux has gotten too big for its britches. The number of kernel...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, IT Services, Linux, kernel, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Linux kernel
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Fixing spreadsheet errors
- Fixing spreadsheet errorsRecognising, finding, and fixing errorsIf the answer is wrong but fits preconceived expectations, the mistake could be expensive. The European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group EuSpRIG has an annual conference on this topic. The next is July 11-13, 2007 in Greenwich, London. http://www.eusprig.orgPatrick O'Beirnehttp://www.sysmod.comMonth of ZDNet Headline Typos"According to...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, spreadsheet error
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- NASA satellites track the growth of forests
- NASA's MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites has again been used to check our environment. This time, NASA satellites have been tracking the growth and the 'productivity' of U.S. forests. Even if satellite data doesn't permit to predict how future climate change will affect forests, the...
- Tags: NASA, MODIS
- Blog posts 2006-08-30
- What's growing at the bottom of Crater Lake?
- Rover vehicles set to search the bottom of Crater LakeScientists are setting out this month to answer some questions concerning the large growth of moss at the bottom of Crater Lake in Oregon. CNET News.com's Vincent Tremblay reports that a remotely operated vehicle system will be used to gather video...
- Tags: Crater Lake
- Videos 2006-08-14
- The green flash
- When the prospect of doing a blog came across my screen, I turned to my most trusted advisor on such matters, one of my 19-year old twin boys. He’s a technology buff in his own right and a freshman in EECS at Oregon State University. I managed to get him...
- Tags: Blog, Blogging, Components, Hardware, Intel Corp., Internet, Job, Justin Rattner, Management, Processors, Semiconductors, Strategy
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- From Apple II to iPod--Apple turns 30
- From Apple II to iPod--Apple turns 30Apple is no AngelI have been jobbed [pun intended] twice by Apple: when they dropped the Apple II and the OS 9 / 10 transition. Never again. What good is buying proprietary technology if the manufacturer is going to treat you like...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Digital music, Operating systems, Digital media, Distributed Audio Processing, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple II
- Discussion threads 2006-03-29
- Schwarzenegger pushes recovery plan
- Schwarzenegger pushes recovery planGood article, the Recovery plan is neededFrom the article: "California pays the highest price for workers compensation in the country, and our workers receive some of the lowest benefits." Thanks to Citizens paying for illegal aliens coming over and getting free(healthcare/food/benefits) the working class has to pay...
- Tags: Benefits, Schwarzenegger, benefit
- Discussion threads 2004-02-05
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