An article in InformationWeek states that the (NSF) grant recipients will explore image processing, large-scale data analysis, improving the Internet, human genome sequencing, and other areas. The National Science Foundation on Thursday said it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities, including UW-Madison,...
There are no shortage of isolated spots in Wisconsin, and Washington Island is high on the seclusion list. Located about seven miles off the tip of Door County, where the waters of Green Bay meet those of Lake Michigan, the 30-square-mile island is accessible by...
If you're shopping for a computer now, there's an added factor to consider. Later this year, both of the major computer operating systems, Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, will be replaced with major new versions: Windows 7 and Mac OS X...
You know the famous saying: It’s the economy, stupid? It’s time that lead technology professionals realize that for them; it’s the bottom line, stupid. Information Week’s Bob Evans spells it all out in a recent column that is an open letter to all chief technologists...
“Do any state legislators really have a clue when it comes to prioritizing projects for Stimulus Package funding?” questions James Carlini. There is a lot of money coming to every state from a federal funding stimulus package. How are they going to spend it? There are...
Filament Games is a small Madison firm that wants to be the developer of the "Citizen Cane" of educational games. But these goals may be thwarted, or at least stifled, company founders Dan White and Dan Norton said, if Wisconsin does away with the one-year-old...
TomoTherapy Inc. said it will restate its financial statements for 2008, noting that its previous statements contained errors. The firm, which makes a radiaton system for treating cancer, said it found income tax accounting mistakes in previously released 2008 statmements. These errors could overstate...
IBM is building analytics clouds it says will help its clients make better decisions and better utilize the data that is available to them. The practice is enabling practices such as a "biobank cloud" that pools data at the infrastructure level, storing data used to...
eBay decides to spin off VOIP company Skype, with which it has a decidedly uneven relationship. An IPO is planned for the first half of 2010, although eBay says the specific timing of the IPO will be based on market conditions. Read full article>>...
Raven Software has 185 employees and is located in Madison, Wisconsin. They are best known as a creative gaming studio that produced such hits as Quake 4, Wolfenstein, X-men, Star Wars, Star Trek, Soldier of Fortune and more. In this interview with WTN News,...