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- My Awesome IT Job: Researcher and manager, Microsoft
- Desney Tan, researcher and manager at Microsoft, says the toughest technology lesson he has learned was that for the most part, people don't care about technology--they really just want to get things done, no matter how snazzy what you've created may be. Part of an ongoing series profiling Awesome IT...
- Tags: Life, Researcher, Information Technology, Hobby, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Toward the end of the dentist drill?
- If you're as afraid as I am when you enter your dentist's office, I have some excellent news. The London-based Society of Chemical Industry reports that UK researchers have developed a new technology that spots tooth decay almost as soon as it's begun. This new technology is based on Raman...
- Tags: Technique, Tooth, Researcher, Dentist, Raman, Festy, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Looking at single atoms of hydrogen
- As you probably know, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms packed in a dense two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. And it recently became very popular recently as a basis for ultra-fast transistors. Now, according to Science News, U.S. researchers are using graphene to image individual hydrogen atoms via a standard...
- Tags: Atom, Researcher, Hydrogen, Carbon, Here, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- A super-resolution x-ray microscope
- Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...
- Tags: Method, Microscope, Researcher, Imaging, Image, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, X-ray, EPFL, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?
- In a 2006 study, U.S. researchers have shown that psilocybin, a substance contained in 'sacred mushrooms,' produced substantial spiritual effects -- when administered under controlled conditions. The scientists recently interviewed the volunteer subjects and they've noted that most of them 'continued to say 14 months later that the experience increased...
- Tags: Researcher, Volunteer, Anxiety, Johns Hopkins University, Monitors & Displays, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Are hospitals really safe?
- Now that we have access to more information about health care and what goes on inside a hospital, what should we be most worried about? How do human errors prevent us from getting the best possible health care when we do have access to fabulous diagnostic tools and intelligent health...
- Tags: Software, Interoperability, Patient, Hospital, Researcher, Medical Device, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Lemon-filled odorless socks?
- According to the latest American Chemical Society ACS Weekly PressPac, Portuguese researchers have developed a new type of microcapsule filled with perfume and embedded in fabric for production of scented suits, socks, undergarments and other clothing. This PressPac contains a very short note titled 'Toward perfumed-clothing: Fabric-friendly microcapsules hide unpleasant...
- Tags: Technique, Researcher, Agent, American Chemical Society, Productivity, Real Estate, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Your computer as your singing coach
- Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...
- Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- About that cellular interference...
- So... maybe it is a real problem. Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference. From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Researcher, Laptop Computer, Pedram Amini, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Biometric IDs for African penguins?
- University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...
- Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- A refrigerator inside your laptop?
- Even if the semiconductor industry is working on it, computer chips are big energy spenders. And new cooling systems will be needed in the future. Purdue University engineers think they have a solution. They've developed a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops. Unlike conventional cooling systems, which...
- Tags: Purdue University, Researcher, Temperature, Laptop Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops
- Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in polluted waters. These nanoparticles could even be more useful for delivering drugs. The researchers found that 'ultraviolet light and magnetic...
- Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Researcher, Nanoparticle, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- 23andme presents its consumer strategy
- It's research, and the tentative name for it is 23andwe, although the company has yet to buy a separate domain name. The phrase was first used by co-founder Linda Avey at a Bio-IT World Expo keynote earlier this month. The idea was fleshed out...
- Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Survey, Marketing Research, Domain Names, Marketing, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
- U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...
- Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- A 13th century social network
- According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked through thousands of records of land transactions dating back as far as 1260 in a Southwest part of France. The result of...
- Tags: Researcher, France, Network, Analysis, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- UAVs will study Californian smog
- The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles AUAVs to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...
- Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- From fungus to fuel
- An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...
- Tags: Team, Biofuel, Researcher, T., Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Novell GroupWise 'mailto' URI handler buffer overflow vulnerability
- Researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has reported another URI abuse exploit. From Security Focus: Novell GroupWise is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Successfully exploiting this issue will allow an attacker to execute...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Researcher, Vulnerability, Buffer-overflow, Novell GroupWise, E-mail Servers, E-mail Clients, Groupware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Stop! It may be time to change the way you teach math
- A new article in the journal Science describes a controlled trial conducted by Ohio State University researchers testing modern approaches to math education. Though the subject of debate for many years, most math teachers use a variety of concrete examples to demonstrate mathematical concepts and techniques. ...
- Tags: Train, Researcher, Math, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
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