Author: WTN News

Could financial industry CIOs have better used IT to mitigate subprime exposure? The answer is yes, says columnist Patrick Gray, if the CIOs had expanded their definition of business intelligence. In this edition of Breakthrough IT, he states that simply building data repositories is not...

The non-statutory stock option, typically afforded executives in companies, has been the subject of the recent backdating scandals faced by a number of high-profile tech companies, noted legal columnist Sverre Roang. In this WTN Guest Column, Roang delves deeper into the “NSO” and explains why...

UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley, who has led Wisconsin's flagship university since 2001, has announced that he is stepping down as chancellor effective in September of 2008. Under Wiley's leadership, UW-Madison has risen to No. 2 nationally in terms of the amount of research conducted...

New distribution agreements signed by TomoTherapy will extend access to the company's cancer treatment technology to a greater percentage of the global marketplace. TomoTherapy has signed contracts with distributors in Israel, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. ...

A noted researcher in the area of infectious disease has been tabbed as the new dean of the Department of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Jonathan Ravdin, the Nesbitt Professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota...

ConjuGon has been awarded $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Defense in 2008 to help fund the development of a new wound infection treatment product. The funds are included in the fiscal year 2008 defense appropriations bill, which was signed into law by President...

BEST Energies and Sanimax Energy have announced they will join forces to bring Wisconsin's second largest biodiesel plant on-line before the end of 2007. BEST Energies is set to open a new 10 million gallon biodiesel plant in Cashton, while Sanimax will market all of...

A team led by University of Wisconsin biologist Gabriela Cezar has used human embryonic stem cells to predict the toxic effects of drugs and provide chemical clues to diagnosing disease, according to a report in the journal Stem Cells and Development. By tuning in to...

Admitting defeat is one of the most difficult things for human beings to do, and chief information officers are no different. Yet pulling the plug on failing information technology projects, before they become expensive mistakes, can bring benefits to the organization and the CIO, alike....