RMG Consultants will lead their 22nd Annual Presidents’ Seminar on Friday, January 20, 2012, at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting at the Dallas Convention Center (Rooms A201/A202) . This year’s theme is "Invasion of the Customer Snatchers into a Saturated and Content-Driven ILS Marketplace" Senior executives of library technology companies will answer questions from moderator Rob McGee of [...]
Joe Wikert is General Manager & Publisher at O’Reilly Media, Inc., where he manages the sales and editorial groups. He is also Chair of O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishers conference (TOC). TOC 2012 is February 13-15 in New York City at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. ALA TechSource readers can save 15 percent by [...]
by Mike Mayberry, Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing Group, and Director, Components Research Welcome! I’ve been blogging about research progress towards making compound semiconductors mainstream and talking about both challenges and opportunities. Three IEDM 2011 papers show the latest progress so in this installment I’ll talk about the papers and how they relate to our [...]
I wanted to share this inspiring blog posted by Paige Johnson in the CSR@Intel blog on how governments are using technology to improve education in their countires. Paige is a scientist by training and a teacher by passion who has devoted the past 20 years to education, curriculum development and professional development. The past 14 [...]
Televisions have enhanced its display features day by day. New display technologies have used to impress the viewers. Liquid Crystal is one of the latest and widely popular display technologies. LCD technology has come with flat screen displays. The technology used to procure images on the screen is completely different from the other display technologies. [...]
At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, said the Top 10 Trends show how IT is changing in that many of them in the past been outside the traditional purview of IT, but they will all affect how IT does its job [...]
Use of remote computers has been around since at least 1964, but the current marketing buzz called Cloud Computing might make you think there’s something new. However Cloud Computing is merely the newest label for the 1964 remote computing service called "Time-Sharing" at Dartmouth College using a General Electric 235 computers (and dumb terminals -Teletype 33/34). Since [...]
Last week, ECAR, the EDUCASE Center for Applied Research, released their most recent study on undergraduate students and technology. Some of the findings were quite astounding–a majority of the students own over a dozen technology devices–and some were common sense, like the finding that technology is not being used strategically in the academic lives of [...]
I recently had a conversation about security wtih Jennifer Gilburg and I felt strongly that she share the details with everyone and hence she decided to write a blog post – which is below for your reading pleasure (authored by Jen). As background, Jennifer Gilburg runs marketing for Intel Corporation’s Intel® Identity Protection technology. She [...]
Recently, I reached an intersection of a few marginally related things that made me think about how important books, information, and libraries are to the inspiration of culture, education, and technology. I started reading L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth. I say “started” because I think at this point I have stopped. I follow Nancy Pearl’s [...]