FEBRUARY 2007 - Volume Four
Hospitals Test Intel-developed Tablet PC for Nurses
by Antone Gonsalves, EE Times
At the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, nurses are using a mobile hand-held device called the C5 that will input patient data into the medical center’s database quickly. Read more on this timesaving and human error reducing device at:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197007751
First Woman Honored with Turing Award
by Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Writer/Yahoo News
One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to Frances E. Allen. This is the first time in the award’s 40-year history that a woman was recognized. Read more on this at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_turing_award
Computer
Science Trouble Lies in Education, Not Jobs, Stanford Professor
Says
Stanford
University/Stanford News
Service
Stanford
University
computer science professor Eric Roberts, co-chair of ACM education board, says a
lack of qualified workers, not a lack of
available jobs, is to blame for the nation's declining computer science
industry. Roberts says there are currently more jobs than there were
at the peak of the dot-com boom, and that misconceptions stating otherwise must
be down away with. Although the number of jobs was rising, enrollment rates in computer science courses in 2005
had fallen to below half of what they were in 2000. Read more on
Professor Roberts’ presentation on the crisis in computer science education and
what he sees as another major problem - computer science graduates have greater incentive to
go into lucrative jobs in the industry, rather than pursue teaching
jobs: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2007/pr-robertsaaas-021407.html
Recording Industry Targets Colleges
by Ted Bridis, Associated Press Writer/Yahoo News
Cracking down on college students, the music industry is sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year as it targets music illegally downloaded over campus computer networks. Learn how college campuses and the Record Industry are handling this issue at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music
Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
by
Jeff Vance/Datamation
In this article, Jeff Vance gives
readers an inside look at ten leading
commercial open-source innovators and the projects they are working
on. In the past, open-source discussions centered on Linux, but now the
innovation is happening elsewhere: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3660831
Datamation
Announces Product of the Year Winners
by
James Maguire/Datamation
Each year, IT readers of Datamation vote on the products and
companies of the year. Top honors go to companies across key areas of IT
infrastructure, from Enterprise Linux to Wireless Software to Network and
Systems Management. Read which products and
companies are award winning with IT professionals at:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3660631
Bill
Gates on Jon Stewart's Daily Show: Vista
Blitz
by
James Maguire/Datamation
Did
you catch it on the Daily Show? Microsoft’s Bill Gates was on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show
promoting Vista. If you missed it, this article by James
Maguire captures the satire and comical moments – on one side of the desk, Bill
Gates, the world’s richest geek and a man not known for casual chitchat and easy
laughter, plus the U.S. Government declared the company he led a monopoly.
On the other side, Jon Stewart, a left-leaning TV host whose sometimes goofy
sense of humor accompanies a penchant for tweaking the powerful and famous:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3656741
Urban Road Race to Test Limits of Robotic Cars
by
Julie Steenhuysen/Reuters
An unmanned robot car navigating in traffic?
Find out what the engineers at Stanford
University
are doing with a 2006 Volkswagen Passat wagon dubbed Junior. The Stanford
car will compete in a race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Department of Defense's research and development
arm:
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March
14-16, 2007
23rd
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Grant and Partnership Opportunity: US Education Essentials Matching Grant Program with Sun Microsystems
Announcing Sun Microsystems' 2007 US Education Essentials Matching Grant Program for academic and research computing -- and new this year, administrative computing. If interested please read the online inquiry/submission form as it has a deadline date of March 31st, for placing orders: www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/mg/index.htm
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SEMICON
West Conference
from
July 16-20 at
Moscone
Center
in San
Francisco,
CA
Mark
your calendar and register now for SEMICON West, the premier global event for
the micro- and nanoelectronics
industry! For more information and to register, go to:
http://semiconwest.semi.org/index.htm
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