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Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille

Rest in peace Roland PiquepailleHe will be missedRoland will be missedRest in Peace, Mr. PiquepailleHis posts were the highlights of ZDNet for me - he will be missed.Rest in peace Roland PiquepailleMy thoughts go to his friends, his partner and family, and to the rest of the ZD bloggers. Rest...

Tags: Blogging, Roland Piquepaille, Roland

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille

Rest in peace Roland PiquepailleFarewell...I enjoyed reading your blogs, even if I didn't understand them sometimes(!)They always made fascinating reading & I'll miss them.Rest in Peace, Roland.It's a sad dayI personally enjoyed Roland's work. I never met got to meet the man, but I'm sure he would have been...

Tags: Blogging, Roland Piquepaille, Roland

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille

It is with great sadness to tell you that our Emerging Technologies blogger Roland Piquepaille has passed away suddenly. His wife Suzanne just confirmed his passing. Roland, 62, was one of our most passionate bloggers and his ability to explain complex science well was something to behold. ...

Tags: Health Care, Bacteria, Roland Piquepaille, Blogger, Roland, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille

It is with great sadness to tell you that our Emerging Technologies blogger Roland Piquepaille has passed away suddenly. His wife Suzanne just confirmed his passing. Roland, 62, was one of our most passionate bloggers and his ability to explain complex science well was something to behold. ...

Tags: Health Care, Bacteria, Roland Piquepaille, Blogger, Roland, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-09

A robotic Cyberknife to fight cancer

The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves around a patient when he breathes. According to BBC News, the first Cyberknife will be operational in February 2009 in London, UK. But...

Tags: Treatment, Patient, Radiation, Cyberknife, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Human hair to feed plants?

You all know that agricultural crop production relies on fertilizers, such as composted waste materials. But I bet you wouldn't have thought to add human hair to animal manure to produce better and greener fertilizers. Yet, a study done by Mississippi State University researchers has shown that human hair, 'combined...

Tags: Crop, Plant, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-30

Protecting beer from bacteria

A Canadian PhD student from the University of Saskatchewan has a mission: saving beer from bacterial contamination. She's a member of 'one of only two labs in the world that studies beer spoilage.' And she jokes about what she's doing: 'It's a good conversation starter. I've gone through so many...

Tags: Beer, Bacteria, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-29

Toward opal-based billboards?

Nature News reports that British and Canadian chemists have developed synthetic opals that can very quickly switch between various colors when a few volts of electricity are applied to them. The developers, who said they're ready to sell the technology today, added that their 'photonic ink' (P-Ink) material could soon...

Tags: Colour, Pixel, Polymer, Material, P-Ink, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-28

Batteries to store wind energy

Scientific American reports that Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based utility company, has started to test a new technology to store wind energy in batteries. The company is currently trying it in a 1,100 megawatts facility of wind turbines in Southern Minnesota. The company started this effort because 'the wind doesn't always...

Tags: Xcel Energy Inc., Battery, Wind Energy, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-27

Developing hurricane-proof homes

Engineers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB have developed fiber-based composite materials for low-cost residential coastal housing. Homes built with this material would be able to resist to a hurricane by bending instead of breaking. Other houses could 'simply float on the rising tide of a storm's coastal...

Tags: Bangladesh, Material, Home, Fiber, Nasim Uddin, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-26

Sexy objects stimulate our brain

According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego, visual areas of our brain respond more to valuable objects than other ones. In other words, our brain has stronger reactions when we see a diamond ring than we look at junk. Similarly, our brain vision areas are more...

Tags: Brain, Serence, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-25

How some vegetables fight breast cancer

You certainly know that eating vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage can help prevent breast cancer. Until now, the protection mechanism offered by these cruciferous vegetables was unknown. But researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara have found an explanation. Here is a quote from the lead...

Tags: Breast Cancer, Vegetable, Cell, Mitosis, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-24

Artificial intelligence to detect heart attacks?

Greek researchers have used online analytical processing OLAP, a technique usually associated with financial and marketing analysis, to build the foundations for a heart attack calculator. Their model integrates 'lifestyle factors including depression, education, smoking, diet, and obesity, [which all] play a part in the risk of cardiovascular disease.' The...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, OLAP, Attack, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-23

Is the LED revolution coming?

According to two professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI, light-emitting diodes LEDs and smart lighting could save trillions of dollars worldwide in the next ten years. They claim that innovations in photonics and solid state lighting could also lead to 'a massive reduction in the amount of energy required to...

Tags: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-22

News to know: Facebookgate, XP, iPhone credit, greentech in 2009

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: 'Facebookgate': Fake Class of 2013 groups today; Annoying marketing tomorrow? Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft to allow custom PC makers to stock XP through mid-2009 ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Roland Piquepaille, Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Podcasts, Internet, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Inside an active volcano on Montserrat

An international team of researchers has started to collect imaging data on the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat which erupts regularly since 1995. They're using the equivalent of a CAT scan to understand its internal structure and how and when it erupts. Several years ago, the U.S. National Science Foundation...

Tags: Researcher, Structure, Imaging, Sensor, Photograph, Montserrat, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-21

New tape to protect buildings from explosions

According to Scientific American in a short article, the U.S. Army has developed a new blast-protection adhesive tape. This X-FLEX tape would be used to coat the interior sides of exterior walls in order to absorb the shock of a blast, protecting the occupants from flying concrete and metal turned...

Tags: Tape, Wall, X-FLEX Blast Protection System, Construction, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-20

How many atoms to build a computer?

Because transistors will inevitably stop to shrink in size in the future, European researchers are studying atomic-scale computing. According to ICT Results, this would allow computer processes to be carried out in a single molecule. 'In theory, atomic-scale computing could put computers more powerful than today's supercomputers in everyone's pocket.'...

Tags: Team, Atom, Researcher, Transistor, Computing, Computer, Molecule, Logic Gate, Semiconductors, Team Management, Hardware, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-19

The Army's brain lives in Seattle

The title of this Seattle Weekly article is so good that I'm using it for this post. In fact, the newspaper revisits the different contracts that Cray Inc. has signed with the U.S. Department of Defense DoD in 2008. It says that with this $30 million commitment, Cray Inc. is...

Tags: Supercomputer, Cray Inc., U.S. Department Of Defense, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Flying robots for better weather forecasts

MIT researchers think that flying robots could be used to improve weather forecasts and to give people more time to prepare for the worst in case of an emergency. 'With more time for advanced planning, farmers could bring in their crop before a big storm hits. Airlines could adjust their...

Tags: Algorithm, Fleet, Researcher, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sensor, Robots, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-17