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- Health gets one-quarter of Obama science board seats
- There is a lot driving this group, which is technically known as the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST toward the support of much larger investments in the life sciences. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: President, Professor, Board, Co-chair, Health Care, Seat, Corporate Governance, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- RSA: Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor? [video]
- Will there be one major catastrophe, or just smaller disasters? Panelists discuss what security issues we should be watching out for, where the threat might come from, and the difficulties in predicting the unpredictable. Panelists include: Whitfield Diffie, vice president and chief security officer for Sun Microsystems; Ronald Rivest, Viterbi...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Professor, Computer Science, Video, Productivity, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor?
- Will there be one major catastrophe, or just smaller disasters? Panelists discuss what security issues we should be watching out for, where the threat might come from, and the difficulties in predicting the unpredictable. Panelists include: Whitfield Diffie, vice president and chief security officer for Sun Microsystems; Ronald Rivest, Viterbi...
- Tags: Professor, Computer Science, Productivity, security, RSA, cryptology, threats
- Videos 2009-04-22
- Crazy Machines 1.0 (Mobile)
- The aim of Crazy Machines is to build crazy contraptions to complete the tasks set forth by the wacky professor. Give free rein to your imagination and unleash the most incredible of chain reactions. In the secret laboratory of the professor the player have to solve various tricky experiments. Several...
- Tags: Professor, Mobile, DTP Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-04-09
- Where's Bin Laden? New theory, Google Earth offer clues
- A couple of geography professors at UCLA have done some legwork that just might help the U.S. get closer to capturing Osama Bin Laden. The professors, John A. Agnew and Thomas W. Gillespie, today published a theory on the MIT International Review site PDF that identifies three...
- Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Professor, Theory, Google Earth, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- "Net neutrality" is stupid
- Today's net neutrality tempest - Google: are they or aren't they? - is a marketing mistake with grave public policy implications. The mistake was law professor Tim Wu's: creating a new label when a perfectly good one is already there. "Net neutrality" is another term for "common...
- Tags: Professor, Network, Network Neutrality, Federal Express, Net Neutrality, Carrier, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- A rocket to see through the northern lights?
- The northern lights are beautiful when you see them from the ground. But they can be dangerous for your life if you're in a plane crossing an area where they are active. This is because your plane can lose radio contact for a long time when flying above the northern...
- Tags: Light, Rocket, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille, Professor, Radio, Jøran Moen, Radio Signal
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Pterodactyl-inspired flying robots
- According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock TTU, a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara wellnhoferi, which lived in Brazil, was a big flying lizard with an unusual 'accessory,' an 8-inch-high fleshy crest stuck straight up...
- Tags: Professor, Texas Tech University, Aircraft, Tapejara, Pterosaur, Aerospace & Defense, Robots, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Instant DNA analysis on a chip
- University of Virginia (U.Va.) professor James Landers is known as 'a master of compression' because he has reduced an entire laboratory for DNA analysis to a chip the size of a common everyday microscope slide. His future handheld device may allow 'physicians, crime scene investigators, pharmacists, even the general public,...
- Tags: Professor, University Of Virginia, DNA, Analysis, Chip, James Landers, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class
- Prof. Michael Reiss has been forced to resign his position as education director of the Royal Society, after making controversial remarks that creationism should be taught in science classes, the Times of London reports. The Society originally stood by Reiss but eventually came to feel his...
- Tags: Education, Professor, Director, Society Educator, Michael Reiss, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...
- Professor Michael Reiss, Director of Education for the Royal Society, seriously irritated most of his fellow Royal Society members and a good chunk of the scientific community by posting a blog entry on September 11th suggesting that creationism and intelligent design should not automatically be excluded from science education. ...
- Tags: Professor, Science, Biology, Student, Teacher, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Archibald's Adventures 1.0 (Mac)
- Help Archie to overcome all of the pitfalls of the Dr. Klumpfus mansion in this funny action puzzle game. Test your skills and wit in more than 100 uncanny levels! Archie and crazy Professor Klumpfus are stuck in the professor's mansion. The latest experiment of the goofy scientist went all...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Professor, Macgamestore, Archibald, Games, Productivity, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-09-13
- Sign language over cell phones in the U.S.
- Thanks to University of Washington UW computer scientists, hearing-impaired users might soon be able to use sign language over a mobile phone, like in Japan or Sweden. The research team received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to start a 20-person field project next year in Seattle. Of...
- Tags: Team, Professor, Phone, Cell Phone, Video, UW, MobileASL, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control
- My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog site Boing Boing. Lawrence Lessig on the coming "i-Patriot Act" - Boing Boing I've taken out an...
- Tags: professor, boing boing, video, corporate communications, government, internet, blogging, vertical industries, marketing, enterprise software, software, tom foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Who will win open source professor cage match?
- In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...
- Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- UC Law bans classroom web access
- I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...
- Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Professor Enhances Classroom Learning With SmartDraw Diagrams
- Associate Professor and an Endowed Chair for Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Brandon University, a liberal arts and sciences school in Canada with more than 2,200 students decided to look for a software program that could help them create graphics for the courses. They searched the Internet for an easy...
- Tags: Professor, SmartDraw, Desktop Publishing, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-06
- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?
- I started my last two master's classes last night (!!). Since the classes consist largely of teachers, we usually end up having some pretty interesting discussions about teaching approaches to translating the master's-level content to secondary education. The first professor of the evening (analytic geometry, although...
- Tags: Geometry, Professor, Math, Student, Teacher, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Professor Fizzwizzle 1 (Windows)
- Professor Fizzwizzle is a fun, mind-expanding puzzle game, where you take control of the diminutive genius, Professor Fizzwizzle. You must help the professor use his brains and his gadgets to solve each exciting level. Do you have what it takes to get past the Rage-Bots and bring the prof back...
- Tags: Professor, Grubby Games, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-11

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