Great CIOs are business leaders and see business results. The time was that being a great CIO involved being a great technologist. The relationship between leadership and mastery of a subject matter is strong, particularly in technical disciplines. After all how can a...
Suddenly some explosively positive and futuristic pragmatic policies about the Internet and global e-commerce are creating amazing galaxies of business naming. With already 1.7 billion online users and 1 billion more on its way the new business naming capabilities befitting advance and intricate platforms of...
A partial list of things for which I'm thankful this week: For American innovation, ingenuity and inventiveness, three “Is” in a winning team that will rebuild our economy long after the stimulus payments are gone and for great teachers who inspire kids to learn and...
Exact Sciences Corp. President and CEO Kevin T. Conroy turns his attention from the Governor's office to leading the Madison company to launch an early screening device for colon cancer. Conroy spoke recently about steering the company toward clinical trial for the yet unnamed test....
Today at the White House, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, a nationwide effort includes over $260 million in public-private investments to move American students to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade President Obama...
Can an employer read a worker's email? Businesses certainly have the technical capability to look at the emails sent from their computers, whether it's transmitted through a company or a private email account. The question really is whether an employee can have any expectation of privacy? It...
MADISON - DNASTAR, a leading bioinformatics software company, and Wageningen University and Research centre in Wageningen, the Netherlands announced today the signing of a broad site license agreement for the use of Lasergene® sequence analysis software developed by DNASTAR. Under the terms of the site license,...
Now that we’ve all actually seen Chrome OS, the immediate reaction that most are jumping to is that it won’t be killing Windows anytime soon. Obviously. But that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt Microsoft, and apply long-term pressure to the dominant OS. In fact, Google’s...
Research conducted by University of Minnesota scientists, in collaboration with Celladon Corporation, has led to the invention of technology to more rapidly identify compounds for the treatment of heart failure. Chronic heart failure is an increasingly important health problem. It is the leading medical cause of...
The NY Times reported today on how the concept of shared; low cost supercomputers are being paired with high performance computers from companies with strong Wisconsin Roots including as Cray and Silicon Graphics. The story revealed how users and developers of supercomputer users are using...