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- Pratt & Whitney's Very Visible, Highly Successful Engineering Data Transformation
- Pratt & Whitney (P&W) has built more than half of the 34,000 commercial aircraft engines in service today and more than 40,000 military engines. To meet ambitious cost and cycle time reductions targeted by top management, Pratt & Whitney's engineering organization needed to revitalize its handling of product data. Rather...
- Tags: Software, Product Lifecycle, Siemens AG, Aircraft, Product Lifecycle Management, Pratt & Whitney, Product Development, Product Marketing, Aerospace & Defense, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-11-01
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- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.
- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.Must be a slow news day...The reality is, anyone who wants to create such a tool USING Google's index can do so using Google Custom Search. In fact, many are.The fact that someone COULD make a custom search engine using their own...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.
- I have to admit that I raised an eyebrow when I read the L.A. Times piece about "Black Google." No, it wasn't talking about the color of the screen (though I have written about a black screen search engine being green.) Instead, it was talking about the racial color of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Times, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent
- The fate of the Reiser4 file system for Linux may well depend on a verdict rendered by a California jury this week. As an Alameda County jury continues to deliberate the fate of Hans Reiser, the designer of the Reiser File System for Linux who is accused of murdering...
- Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Linux Kernel, File System, Verdict, Reiser4, Reiser, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- How Managed Services has Changed Remote Infrastructure Management
- In today's distributed computing environment, critical Information and Communications Technology ICT equipment can be located anywhere in the world. These arrangements possess unique challenges for the companies that need to access, manage, and monitor these critical systems 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Register now...
- Tags: Security, Managed Services, Infrastructure Management, ITC Infotech, It Services
- Webcasts 2008-03-26
- Updates to SAS Power and Sample Size Software in SAS/STAT 9.2
- Procedures for power analysis and sample size determination were introduced in SAS/STAT 9.1 along with a Web application for performing these analyses. SAS/STAT 9.2 adds analyses for several new designs, enhances some existing analyses, and replaces the Web application with a desktop application for your PC. The new analyses include...
- Tags: Software, Regression, SAS Institute, SAS/STAT 9.2
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Big storage is watching you
- Kudos to Larry Dignan for an informative post on the system that caught NY governor Eliot Spitzer canoodling with a prostitute. Modern information technology enables 24 hour surveillance of every citizen. Should we care? Of course not. Every citizen is a potential terrorist. You want to...
- Tags: Database, President, Surveillance, Information Technology, Storage, Personal Responsibility, GPS, Government, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal
- IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian dealMatter of sematics?Seems to me that if you're selling PC architecture machines running whatever OS, then you're in the PC business. However, enough people use the term "PC" to refer specifically to x86 machines running an MS operating system that IBM execs...
- Tags: Linux, Desktops, SECURITY, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Looks like Linux, IBM Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., Russian deal, secure, PC, LINUX IS, PC Market, Russian Hackers
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- The post Davenport-McAfee slugfest: the Twits speak
- n. r.v. twit·ted, twit·ting, twits To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See Synonyms at ridicule. 1. The act or an instance of twitting. 2. A reproach, gibe, or taunt. ...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Davenport Co., Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging
- If this blog takes the form of a news story, that's because it kinda is. In some ways this is a phenomenon I've been writing about for years -- the fact that headless devices like sensors and meters and intelligent appliances will start driving more traffic on the Internet than...
- Tags: Homeowner, Grid, Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Simulating planes flying at Mach 6
- Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, such as the X-51A aircraft being built by Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, should start to fly in 2009. And if everything goes according to plan, missiles flying at Mach 6 could be deployed by 2015. But designing such planes is not so easy. This...
- Tags: Purdue University, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- From Shrek to jet engines, supercomputers prove their mettle
- Each year the US Department of Energy entertains proposals for INCITE, a program aimed at advancing the state of the art in US industry. The winners get free computer time on DOE supercomputers. Two of the winners this year, Dreamworks Animation and Pratt & Whitney, gave presentations at SC07 about...
- Tags: Supercomputer, DreamWorks SKG, Engine, Multi-core, Computer, Productivity, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Jack Human Simulation Software Helps Pratt & Whitney by Speeding Aircraft Engine Development
- With routine maintenance accounting for a big part of aviation costs, Pratt & Whitney designs engines with the goal of minimizing maintenance downtime. The company wanted to control costs and speed delivery of new military and commercial aircraft engines and provide customers with engines that require fewer maintenance hours. The...
- Tags: Software, Siemens AG, Aircraft, Engine, Aerospace & Defense, Virtual Reality, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Printing with enzymes
- Researchers at Duke University have developed a new printing technique using catalysts to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip. Their inkless printing technique uses enzymes from E. coli bacteria and has an accuracy of less than 2 nanometers. While they're are now using enzymes to stamp nanopatterns without ink, the research...
- Tags: Stamp, DNA, Catalyst, Duke University, Printing, Biotechnology, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- New Net taxes could arrive in November
- New Net taxes could arrive in NovemberPaying More For Crappy SpeedsLook at Europe, where 10MB connection speeds are a joke....But as usual, we'll shell out the taxes and not protest at all...after all, our taxes are going towards winning the war in Iraq, not towards securing our borders and advancing...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Strategy, New Net tax, tax, government
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Social computing and product lifecycle management
- The blogs are full of praise for soon to be minted Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's thought piece about applying social computing to product lifecycle management. While I like the generality of Jeremiah's argument, I'm nervous about applying the ideas in a number of markets. At least...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Information Technology, Industry, Social Computing, SAP AG, Product Lifecycle Management, Jeremiah, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- SAP's vox populi
- Marilyn Pratt who runs SAP's business process expert section on the SAP developer network sent me a link to a video initiative SAP is trying out for its upcoming TechEd event in Las Vegas: We know that our SAP Community Network has very passionate members....
- Tags: TechEd, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Citrix gobbles up XenSource
- Citrix said Wednesday that it will acquire privately held XenSource for $500 million in cash and stock in what's likely to be the beginning of a virtualization land grab. The purchase of XenSource is interesting since it puts Citrix into the virtualization market. Meanwhile, Citrix can combine XenSource with its...
- Tags: Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., XenSource Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- CAD-CAM for nanotechnology manufacturing
- A team of U.S. researchers has used a computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD-CAM) process to guide an atomic force microscope AFM. According to them, this automated technique is 'paving the way for a nanotechnology's industrial revolution.' And their results look very promising. If they're confirmed -- and adopted by...
- Tags: Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
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