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Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban Challenge

And the winner is ... Sunday, DARPA announced the winning teams in the super-challenging robot car race the Urban Challenge. The big boys are: In first place, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing Team. Prize: $2 million. Second place: the Stanford...

Tags: Virginia Tech, Carnegie-Mellon University, Robot, Minute, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-05

E-textiles to monitor your health

Virginia Tech VT researchers have been busy developing efficient e-textiles -- electronic textiles and clothing with embedded wires and sensors -- for six years now. Their computerized clothing can monitor your movements, sensing if you're walking, running, standing, or sitting down. Of course, this kind of clothing has a wide...

Tags: Virginia Tech, Monitor, Researcher, Sensor, Health Care, Computer, E-textiles, Wearer, Jumpsuit, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Rutgers, Va. Tech join forces on digital archive

Rutgers University librarians are helping to create a digital archive of thousands of artifacts collected after the Virginia Tech massacre, The Star-Ledger reports. Among the artifacts being captured: some of the folder paper cranes that students and others made as a symbol of peace after the killings. ...

Tags: Virginia Tech, Artifact, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-18

VT Web Cams 1 (Windows)

A Web cam widget that features two cameras from the Virginia Tech campus. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Virginia Tech, Andy Clapper, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-06-18

CA plan for campus-wide alert systems, in wake of Va. Tech shootings

Could the Virginia Tech shootings have been avoided with better alerting systems? California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi thinks so, reports the AP. Garamendi is talking to cellular telephone companies about establishing a system to alert cell phone users to emergencies on college campuses in California. He said the...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-20

My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarifications

My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarificationsHuman nature.An innate interest in violent disaster does exist, no question. But is satisfying that interest a necessity or an indulgence?You wrote:"My point was it was the urgency of this story, and people needing to see it…"The people who needed to see it...

Tags: Virginia Tech

Discussion threads 2007-04-17

My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarifications

Yesterday, in my first post on the lack of availability of indexed and searchable video about the Virginia Tech tragedy I started out by writing in part:Evil. Pure evil. The sheer numbers inform a tragedy that is so much more profound than any discussion of the technologies used to stream...

Tags: Streaming media, General

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Journalists look to bloggers for Virginia Tech story

Journalists look to bloggers for Virginia Tech storyJack Thompson Opens His FAT Mouth AgainOnce again, the blame is on violent video games from this idiot politician...Just shut up...so was the college shooting in Texas in the 1960's to be blamed on video games too?There's a Huge downsideI'm a blogger, too,...

Tags: Games, Blogging, Corporate communications, Now IT, Jack Thompson, blogger, video game, game, video, Virginia Tech, blog

Discussion threads 2007-04-16

Broadband video sites post Virginia Tech shooting coverage

Twenty-nine dead.Evil. Pure evil. The sheer numbers inform a tragedy that is so much more profound than any discussion of the technologies used to stream it to the Web- where workaday Americans can watch it.But just in case you are interested, ABC News seems to have the most conclusive...

Tags: News, General

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Tablet PCs required for Virginia Tech engineers

Tablet PCs required for Virginia Tech engineersAnd to be smarter ...Now, they should really employ some high tech ...Use WiFi to broadcast lecture and classroom and lab notes to tablets.Allow tests to be conducted on the tablets, instead of using paper ...Capture whiteboard diagrams and other instructional information ...Use the...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, PC, Virginia Tech, tablet, tablet PC

Discussion threads 2006-06-30

Photos: Fujitsu's LifeBook tablet

The LifeBook T4210, a Fujitsu T4000-series tablet PC, is required gear for engineering students at Virginia Tech.

Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Fujitsu LifeBook, Fujitsu Ltd., Virginia Tech, tablet PC, tablet, PC

Image galleries 2006-06-30

Photos: Fujitsu's LifeBook tablet

The LifeBook T4210, a Fujitsu T4000-series tablet PC, is required gear for engineering students at Virginia Tech.

Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Fujitsu LifeBook, Fujitsu Ltd., Virginia Tech, tablet PC, tablet, PC

Image galleries 2006-06-30

Virginia Tech beefs up Mac supercomputer

Virginia Tech beefs up Mac supercomputerPays to think outside the wintel square"The fastest Mac supercomputer has gotten faster, thanks to an Xserve makeover."Not just faster, but with 42 units (that's 84 processors) able to be installed in a standard rack (up from 12 for the Powermac G5), Virginia Tech not...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Apple Power Mac G5, Allah, Virginia Tech, Apple Inc., X-serves, Apple Macintosh, supercomputer

Discussion threads 2004-10-25

Fast but going nowhere

Fast but going nowhereThis story has nothing to do with reality...The reason the Virginia Tech supercomputer dropped off the list was they were in the process of replacing the 1,100 dual G5 desktops since sold with 1,100 dual G5 Xserves which have several significant advantages. An Army contractor is putting...

Tags: Desktops, Right Now IT, Apple Xserve, Virginia Tech

Discussion threads 2004-08-03

Apple delivers Xserve G5

Apple delivers Xserve G5No one buys itMeanwhile the world runs Intel datacenters.RE: Apple out of BusinessIt'll happen by 1996, I tell ya!An Apple server is that an OxymoronAt least they are finally trying to be more than a photoshop crunching word processor.speak for yourselfi'd rather run my data center on...

Tags: Data centers, Virginia Tech, Apple Xserve, Apple Inc., Apple Xserve G5, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-03-23

Virginia Tech racks up supercomputer upgrade

Virginia Tech racks up supercomputer upgradeBah, Opteron is the way to go.AMD's Opteron is the way to go, not that pretend computer stuff...Notice this is NOT Windows.So why is nobody using Windows for clusters???expensive?Why didn't they wait for the G5 rack mounts anyway?Isn't this costly to do this? I'll...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Desktops, public relations, Linus, chip, supercomputer, Apple Power Mac, AMD Opteron, computer, Virginia Tech

Discussion threads 2004-01-27

Additional Resources

Velocity Micro NoteMagix M17 Ultra

Velocity Micro reviewI had ordered a very expensive M17 Ultra gaming laptop from Velocity Micro as my little gift to myself this holiday season. Well, I got it last night...To start with, I was a returning customer. My desktop is a Velocity Micro rig, bought in 2007, and I've...

Tags: Wireless LANs, PRODUCTIVITY, Velocity, Velocity Micro

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

News to know: Adobe; Sergey Brin; Apps.gov; Oracle; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer' Larry Dignan: Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Sergey Brin, OIN, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tablets, Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Collaboration in a Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed by Virtual Consortium

This paper describes the formation of the Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed WGiT coordinated by a virtual consortium involving academic and non-academic entities. Syracuse University and Virginia Tech are primary university partners with several other academic, government, and corporate partners. Objectives include: coordinating knowledge sharing, defining key parameters for wireless grids...

Tags: Innovation, Collaboration, Syracuse University, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-09-09

Tech startup creates State Dept.-approved educational games for Middle East

The U.S. State Department has contracted a small Virginia-based startup to create mobile phone games to help citizens of nations the U.S. has poor relations with -- mostly in the Middle East -- learn about America and its values. ...

Tags: Game, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Tech Startup, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-25