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Design of a Real-Time Remote-Access Engineering Laboratory Using Integrated Web Service and Wireless Technology for Distance Learners

Web-based distance education has enabled university programmes to increase diversity within the student body by allowing non-traditional students and satellite campuses the ability to access a standard college education. However, for engineering distance education, students only have limited access to laboratory equipment to gain hands-on experiences. In this paper, the...

Tags: Distance Education, Distance Learning, Web, Wireless Technology, Student, Web Service, Western Carolina University, Wireless, E-learning, Training And Certification, Transportation, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-06-04

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LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

update: (Editor's note: The updates of this entry appear in reverse order.) 11:03 a.m. - The event is over. Steve thanks us for coming and we're done. 10:54 a.m. Answers questions about relationship with Nvidia, as well as integration of Blu-Ray. Jobs said...

Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Apple MacBook Pro, Tim Cook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

New pulseless total artificial heart

Two University of Houston UH engineering professors have received a $2.8 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health NIH to develop a new artificial heart technology. In order to create a pulseless total artificial heart TAH, they 'are focusing on developing a control system that emulates how the...

Tags: Heart, Team Management, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Management, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...

Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

And speaking of Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently acquired both MySQL and VirtualBox, all of which (especially OO.org) have quite a bit of relevance here. ...

Tags: K-12, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Using your voice to pilot your computer

According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven...

Tags: Software, Pattern Recognition, Mouse, Voice Recognition, Voice, Signal Processing, Computer, Application Driver, Productivity, Mice, Telephony, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad

Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Wireless soil sensors to help farmers

A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...

Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-11

A robot to destroy breast cancer cells

Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...

Tags: Breast Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rod, Cell, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it

There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...

Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Why IT project post-mortems don't matter

Why IT project post-mortems don't matterGood Article, Bad TitleI agree with your position and your content and suggestions. The title, however, is not reflective of the subject-matter. The article is about improving the post-mortems process, yet I was expecting to see an opinion piece about how they are...

Tags: IT Project, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

"People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"

Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...

Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-09

sBOOKs - Robert Louis Stevenson (exe)

See 15 ebooks from R. L. Stevevson in one easy to use application. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13 November 1850. He studied at Edinburgh University and also qualified as a lawyer. He travelled extensively in Europe and began his writing career during these years. He...

Tags: SmartSolutions, E-books, Professional Development, Personal Technology, Career

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel X-25M, SSD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...

Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...

Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Watching brain cells in action

A Stanford University team has developed a microscope weighing only 1.1 grams. It is so small that it can be mounted to the head of a freely moving mouse to watch its brain cell activity. According to what said the lead researcher to New Scientist, 'A lot of work has...

Tags: Microscope, Mouse, Imaging, Muscle, Stanford University Team, Sarcomeres, Mice, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...

Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-08