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Kintecus 3.962 (Windows)

This software will model the chemical kinetics and equilibrium of combustion (isobaric/isochoric), nuclear, catalyst reactor CSTR and enzyme reactions. Software can also fit/regress any parameters against chemical data with confidence bands/uncertainty analysis. Can also output normalized sensitivity analysis matrices and compute cluster & metabolic control analysis.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Analysis, Vast Technologies Development

Software downloads 2009-09-06

Additional Resources

Interview with Microsoft’s Seth Patton

More from the Project Conference Seth Patton is the senior marketing director for Microsoft Project. I got thirty minutes alone with Seth at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 show this afternoon. We discussed several topics impacting the PSA professional services automation and PPM...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., PPM, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-16

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it

It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

EMC CEO Tucci pens dear Data Domain workers letter

NetApp and Data Domain have agreed to merge in a stock and cash deal valued at $1.9 billion, but the deal is in limbo as shareholders weigh a $1.8 billion all cash offer from EMC. In between there's a lot of campaigning for the various Data Domain interests. Enter an...

Tags: NetApp Inc., EMC Corp., Worker, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...

Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-19

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...

Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Microsoft rolls out Silverlight 3 beta and more developer goodies

Microsoft rolls out Silverlight 3 beta and more developer goodiesSweet!Silverlight is a fantastic tech and is highly innovative.So? It's irrelevant.Silverlight is irrelevant. I expect the only thing that will ever unseat Flash as a multimedia widget will be some future open-source/no-license/no-hassle solution. Microsoft was fooling itself if it thought that...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Is the PlayStation Doomed?

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Today's multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-06

E pur se muove (and yet it moves)

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Ivan Arce On January 15, 2008, the Vatican released a statement indicating that Pope Benedict XVI had canceled his visit to Italian La Sapienza University as a result of a series of protests...

Tags: Information Security, Galileo Galilei, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?

Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?Medical device development in MassachusettsSpeaking as a member of the orthopedic medical device industry, it is our hope that the regulatory process will allow input from industry to develop reasonable disclosure guidelines without stifling activities that are beneficial to Massachusetts healthcare consumers. Below is an abbreviated...

Tags: health care, manufacturer, medical device, medical device industry, S. 2863

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination

Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tahiti, multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu’s Volkswagen

2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be  a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install. While not as widely lauded, we...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Volkswagen AG, GNOME, Software Update Utility, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software

George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman's comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was figuratively on fire. I then saw Christopher Dawson's response to Stallman's comments, and so I figured that I'd throw my two cents in...

Tags: Software, Open Source, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-02

The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media

Over the last few months I've been listening with growing alarm at the claims made for enterprise 2.0 and social media. Or rather the lack of claims coupled to an incredible amount of posturing. What concerns me greatly is that in the mad rush to all things X2.0, we seem...

Tags: DNA, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, CXO, Social Networking, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Secure coding: the invisible elephant

The last couple of weeks, I've been trying to vaguely connect the dots between social computing, cloud computing and traditional process based systems. There are multiple legs to the story but one that had pretty much escaped my attention was the security angle. I will not claim any special expertise...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Database, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ms Davidson, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-08

WA Department of Education and Training Rolls Out Statewide Digital Learning to 800 Schools

The Western Australian Department of Education and Training WA DET delivers education and skills development to people in the state. WA DET administers education across a region roughly one-third of the Australian land mass. This vast geography presents the department with a range of challenges, including building the skills of...

Tags: Education, U.S. Department Of Education, Oracle Corp., Training, WA DET, Portals, Internet

Case studies 2008-04-01

illumin8-ing improvements for knowledge workers?

The printing press was a pretty pivotal invention, challenging artificial limitations on the dissemination of ideas maintained by scriptoria and opening flood gates to the vibrant philosophical, social and technological innovations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond. From those early innovations, we entered a long period in...

Tags: Journal, Elsevier, Illumin8, Productivity, Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-26