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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson
Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.
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A brief guide to software development in the real world. Aimed mainly at new developers: experienced programmers already know most of this. This guide is for hands-on programmers, not managers.
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David Cohen is creator of earFeeder (www.earfeeder.com), the Boulder, Colorado-based web service that was sold last week to SonicSwap. We caught up with David to talk about earFeeder, its rapid sale, and how it relates to the whole Web 2.0 world. We also talked to David about the "TechCrunch" effect, and also about his widely read blog, ColoradoStartups.com (www.coloradostartups.com) focused on high tech startups.
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SAP will be forced to cannibalise its own customers by offering new software that is delivered over the Web as it adapts to a world irrevocably changed by Google. Hasso Plattner, a co-founder of the world's biggest maker of business software, said SAP's on-demand A1S software, slated for launch early next year, would be one of SAP's best-ever products but would compete with its current way of doing business.
"This model will compete with our current model, and 99 percent of our installations are on site."
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EDS said Tuesday it completed its acquisition of Bangalore, India-based RelQ Software Private Ltd., a privately held software testing company.
EDS said RelQ, which has 700 employees in India, Great Britain, the U.S. and France, will be fully integrated into the company's global testing organization.
The deal brings the size of EDS' Indian work force to more than 20,000.
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Tech firms constantly moan about software piracy and no wonder. Last year it accounted for 35% of the worldwide market and cost the industry $39.6 billion according to the Business Software Alliance, a trade body. America and China lead the world in terms of total losses from piracy at $7.2 billion and $5.4 billion respectively. But when calculated according to the number of computers in each country a different picture emerges. Cash-strapped countries dominate the leader board.
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 Jonathan Aldrich will receive the 2007 AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize for his groundbreaking work in object-oriented programming, the dominant programming paradigm in industry. He shares the spotlight with Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research who will receive the Senior Prize for his overall contribution to both theory and practice for object-oriented languages.
Jonathan AldrichAldrich's work tackles one of the most important challenges in industrial software development: getting the large-scale structure of programs right. Software is among the most complex artifacts that humans engineer today, with programs exceeding a million pages of code. Software companies may have hundreds or thousands of engineers scattered around the globe. If any one of them accidentally introduces any code that is inconsistent with a system's design, the entire system could fail.
Aldrich is being honored for developing ArchJava, an extension of the Java programming language that encodes the high-level structure of a system inside the code and uses automated analysis tools to verify that the code is consistent with that structure. The goal of his work is to summarize the architectural design of huge software systems on a single page, then automatically ensure that all million pages of code are consistent with that summary over time.
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Microsoft plans to start testing a new education PC called IQ PC and an education channel on its MSN portal in India next month. The India launch of the IQ PC and education channel will be the first worldwide. It is part of Microsoft's "Unlimited Potential" program, which aims to use technology to increase the reach of education, said a spokeswoman for Microsoft India on Wednesday.
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Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.
Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web application support when it launches at the end of this year.
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About 4,000 people die every year waiting for kidney transplants, and Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists believe they've found a way to cut that number - using math.
The program was run in early May by the Alliance for Paired Donation, a kidney exchange program for 50 transplant centers in 15 states. It identified four potential two-way exchanges, three three-way exchanges and one four-way exchange among about 100 donor-patient pairs and seven altruistic donors. Whether any of those transplants take place depends on final compatibility testing.
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The people at Popular Mechanics were lucky to grab a inside look at Microsoft Surface and it's technologies. The video shows how many technologies from the past have come to make this product and they show exactly how the functionality with the photos will work.
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There is a growing structural imbalance between the demand for information technologists and supply. Rapid growth in IT, especially in the U.S., has caused companies to outsource a large share of IT jobs, as well as take advantage of the increasingly controversial H1-B program to import extra workers. Notwithstanding the upheaval this has caused in the domestic IT job market in the last five years, it will provide only a temporary fix as cheaper workers are consumed and salaries are equalized globally.
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For someone who has been working in and around the supply chain for more than 25 years, Lawrence "David" Davis sometimes sounds, well, not like a supply chain kind of guy. He talks about "genetic algorithms" and "evolutionary computation" and "deterministic simulation," which at first blush might seem to have little to do with running a company's supply chain.
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Satellite imagery meshed with video-game technology is allowing University of Colorado at Boulder and NASA researchers to virtually "fly" along footpaths used by Central Americans 2,000 years ago on spiritual pilgrimages to ancestral cemeteries. The effort has allowed researchers to trace the movements of ancient people in the Arenal region of present-day Costa Rica, who used single-file paths to navigate rugged terrain between small villages and cemeteries over the centuries. The repeated use of the footpaths caused erosion resulting in narrow trenches in the landscape up to 10 feet deep.
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Formula 1 car maker Ferrari relies on an Indian software company to deliver its 300 km per hour performance on the race track. The firm has been collaborating with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) since 2004, when it decided to look for an engineering and IT consulting partner. The two came together for the development of the Formula 1 racing car and the Ferrari Sports car and have since enjoyed an ongoing relationship that spans a gamut of the F1 car maker’s IT needs for before, during and between races.
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India's software and services exports are estimated to have grown 32 percent to 31.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2006-07.
India's revenues from software and services will reach the 50 billion U.S. dollar mark in 2007-08.
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Two research teams have developed models for classifying the clinical outcomes of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using mass spectrometry techniques.
One team developed an algorithm to predict the outcomes of NSCLC patients treated with the drugs gefitinib and erlotinib, two tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The algorithm places patients into categories indicating "good" or "poor" survival before treatment with one of the drugs and is based on the pattern of a group of proteins in the patient's blood serum.
In the second study, researchers analyzed protein patterns in NSCLC tumor tissue and normal lung tissue. The researchers identified a pattern that was associated with increased survival among NSCLC patients and may distinguish patients with poor prognosis from those with good prognosis.
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InShape(TM) predicts accurate silicon shapes, enabling designers to perform DFM hotspot detection of catastrophic failures. This model-based Design Manufacturability Checker utilizes nonlinear optical transformation algorithm to detect potential manufacturing failures during physical design. Compact models encapsulate all necessary RET, OPC, mask, etch, and lithography effects on both device and interconnect, predicting accurate contours for entire chip from drawn layout within hours.
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Ten years ago, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and massively parallel processing (MPP) systems were the most common architectures for high performance computing. The popularity of these architectures has decreased with the emergence of a more cost-effective approach: cluster computing. According to the Top500 Supercomputer Sites project, the cluster systems are now the most common type of architecture for the world's highest performing computer systems.
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The new work, which is largely theoretical, may also lead to improvements of existing algorithms that attempt to determine what parts of the brain are producing the electromagnetic fields that are measured by functional brain imaging techniques such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) or closely-related electroencephalography (EEG). "With this work, functional brain imaging practitioners should be better able to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of competing Bayesian approaches for source localization."
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X10 is an experimental new language currently under development at IBM in collaboration with academic partners. The X10 effort is part of the IBM PERCS project (Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computer Systems) in the DARPA program on High Productivity Computer Systems. The PERCS project is focused on a hardware-software co-design methodology to integrate advances in chip technology, architecture, operating systems, compilers, programming language and programming tools to deliver new adaptable, scalable systems that will provide an order-of-magnitude improvement in development productivity for parallel applications by 2010.
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"We're nomads. Please, can you give us an example using sheep and camels?"
Taran and Rosso-Llopart are still mulling that suggestion. But the fact that they spent 10 days in Kazakhstan, appearing in auditoriums packed with software engineers, speaks volumes regarding the demand in developing countries for software engineering expertise.
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EA's Hit Game "The Sims" Will Help Make Computer Science Education Fun.
EA has agreed to help underwrite the development of Alice 3.0—a popular object-oriented, Java-based computer-programming environment created by Carnegie Mellon researchers—and provide essential art assets from "The Sims™," the best selling PC videogame of all time.
"The Sims" content will transform the Alice software from a rudimentary, 3-D programming tool into a compelling and user-friendly programming environment. Development for Alice 3.0 will begin immediately and will span the next 18 to 24 months. Experts say that when the transformation is complete, the new programming environment will be in position to become the national standard for teaching software programming.
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