Traditional, rural Alaskan knowledge can now spread globally thanks to a joint effort between UW-Madison’s Environmental Remote Sensing Center and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. Their MapTeach effort is designed to combine geospatial information with traditional knowledge as a teaching tool....
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received their grades online for the first time in December, through a collaboration between DoIT and the Office of the Registrar....
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has dropped a PeopleSoft database for tracking alumni in favor of a system the Wisconsin Alumni Association has used for 12 years....
We here at Buzz-Word Central feel conditions warrant raising the threat level on the word “simple.” We’ve identified a significantly increased level of chatter around the term in the IT and business-management press....
Larry Landweber knows networks. The UW computer-science professor and National Science Foundation advisor spoke to WTN on the future of networks, devices, open source and the NSF....
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Kenosha, Wis. — Gateway Technical College has almost finished teaching its first class of students in the IBM Advanced Career Education Program, and already it has gained recognition and the opportunity to lead other colleges in adopting its ideas....
Milwaukee — As the highway reconstruction efforts continue their development in downtown Milwaukee, complaints have been leveled at the amount of money, $685,000, the state Department of Transportation spent on a Web site that will update people on the road's status. Several local Web design...
If you haven’t ever read the opening passages of Alice in Wonderland, you should. Lewis Carroll managed, in 1865, to write a pretty accurate description of most modern IT projects....
Madison, Wis. — While the Madison chapter of the World Future Society is dedicated primarily to looking ahead for new social and technological developments, Scott Converse showed them how looking to the past can also be important if they want to see where the next...