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Public release date: 6-Jul-2007. Contact: Paul Jackson. (EurekAlert!)
* Taiwan Quick Take Jul 3, 2007
Chu Hai-yen (P), deputy director of the III's Information Engineering Institute, said his organization contacted the Saudi health ministry last September after learning Riyadh wanted to improve its health insurance system. While Saudi citizens are eligible for a public medical care system, the program does not cover the large number of foreigners working in that country, Chu said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
New INTSPEI Technology Lets Software Engineers Focus on Innovation, Not Bug Fixes Jun 27, 2007
KIEV, UKRAINE - NEW YORK, NY - 26 June 2007 (INB) -- The International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute (INTSPEI) announced today the roadmap for its P-Modeling technology, which enables software development companies to eliminate bugs early, shortening development time and improving software quality ... The International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute () is a multinational corporation with offices in New York and Kiev (Ukraine). (Internet News Bureau)
Major Boost Needed In Federal Support For Coal R&D, Report Says Jun 22, 2007
ScienceDaily: Major Boost Needed In Federal Support For Coal Rort Says. Major Boost Needed In Federal Support For Coal Rort Says. (Science Daily)
Major increase in federal research needed to determine size of US coal reserves Jun 21, 2007
Public release date: 20-Jun-2007. WASHINGTON -- Because coal will continue to provide a substantial portion of U.S. energy for at least the next several decades, a major increase in federal support for research and development is needed to ensure that this natural resource is extracted efficiently, safely, and in an environmentally responsible manner, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. (EurekAlert!)
Fellowship Of The Ring Jun 15, 2007
It turns out that in the early 1920s, seven of the past presidents of the Engineering Institute of Canada got together in Montreal and considered how to encourage Canadian engineers to feel closer, part of a special guild. One offered to ask his friend, British writer Rudyard Kipling, to draft an appropriate oath. (Forbes -- Technology)
CGI among the first worldwide to earn the new CMMI Level 3, version 1.2 certification Jun 13, 2007
2 certification, as defined by the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model(R) Integration (CMMI), for its centers of excellence specializing in development in Montreal and Quebec City ... "We also plan to attain higher certification levels for these centers and have already taken initiatives to make this happen." About SEI The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a U.S. Department of Defense federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon... (Canada Newswire)
Report calls for new directions, innovative approaches in testing chemicals for toxicity to humans Jun 13, 2007
Public release date: 12-Jun-2007. WASHINGTON -- Recent advances in systems biology, testing in cells and tissues, and related scientific fields offer the potential to fundamentally change the way chemicals are tested for risks they may pose to humans, says a new report from the National Research Council. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program Jun 9, 2007
Public release date: 8-Jun-2007. Contact: William Skane. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Sediment dredging has fallen short of achieving cleanup goals at many contaminated sites Jun 6, 2007
Public release date: 5-Jun-2007. WASHINGTON -- At many projects to dredge contaminated sediments from U.S. rivers and other bodies of water, it has not been demonstrated that dredging has reduced the long-term risks the sediments pose to people and wildlife, says a new report from the National Research Council. (EurekAlert!)
Microsoft Preaches the Value of Agility at TechEd Jun 5, 2007
And while Bittman identified the Capability Maturity Model for Software that came out of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute as the "granddaddy of all maturity models the CMM is not good enough for high-technology changing IT.". Overall, organizations need to look at the major factors that can be tweaked to reach agility. (eWeek)
Infrared technology assists in walrus count May 30, 2007
"It has to be done jointly, otherwise it doesn't reflect the truth," said Vladimir Chernook, department head of the Research and Engineering Institute for the Development and Operation of Fisheries in St. Petersburg, Russia. "The walrus don't care about the border.". (Anchorage Daily News)
China sentences drug regulator to death May 30, 2007
"I thought he would get life in jail, but he deserved the death sentence" said Luo Yunbo, head of the Food Science and Nutrition Engineering Institute at the Chinese Agricultural University. "As an official he did some good things, like promoting the ISO system for food safety management, but he used his position as a tool to make money," Luo said. (USA Today -- Money)
Steps needed to reduce smoking in the US May 25, 2007
Public release date: 24-May-2007. Contact: Christine Stencel. (EurekAlert!)
First Maryland stem-cell grants awarded May 22, 2007
For example, Dr. Angelo H. All, of Hopkins' Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, was awarded a grant to study the use of embryonic stem cells in treating spinal cord injuries in a rat model. Seventeen proposals received grants worth up to $100,000 a year for two years. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Maryland doles out funds for stem cell research May 21, 2007
Angelo All with the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Jeff Bulte with the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Science college first to make SAT/ACT scores optional May 8, 2007
By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY Officials at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts say they will make college entrance exam scores optional in admission, making it the first nationally ranked science and engineering institute to do so. Beginning with the entering class of 2008, WPI applicants will have the option of submitting either ACT or SAT test scores or some other indicator of academic achievement, such as a research paper, science fair project, or similar effort that... (USA Today -- News)
Tainted pet food: China faces regulatory challenges in probe Apr 30, 2007
Luo Yunbo, head of the Food Science and Nutritional Engineering Institute at China's Agricultural University, said that some Chinese food manufacturers include additives that are inappropriate. "Sometimes people lack enough knowledge of additives, or even if they do know, they still do it," he said. (USA Today -- Money)
Junior Achievement plans honoree dinner Apr 29, 2007
FAIRFIELD The Connecticut chapter of the Software Engineering Institute s Software Process Improvement Network will hold its first membership meeting at 6 p.m. May 16 in McAuliffe Hall at Fairfield University s School of Engineering. The event will feature an introduction to the group and a presentation by Software Engineering Institute Coordinator Christopher H. Rogalin. (New Haven Register, CT)
Junk Food Ban? Report Recommends Nutrition Standards For 'Competitive' Foods And Drinks Sold In Schools Apr 29, 2007 Outdated policies are impediment for Americans with disabilities Apr 27, 2007 IRS used possibly risky wireless tech Apr 18, 2007 'Too late' to assure security of patient data Apr 14, 2007 Princeling Makes Big Splash With Tiny Goldbond Apr 4, 2007 China unveils moon rover Apr 4, 2007 China develops rover for mission to moon Apr 3, 2007 Shanghai scientists in China hope lunar rover will go to Moon Apr 3, 2007 Shanghai vies to win battle of moon rovers Apr 2, 2007 Shanghai scientists developing atomic moon rover Apr 2, 2007 US needs integrated approach to improve foreign language skills and cultural expertise Mar 28, 2007 New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology' Mar 28, 2007 Limited accessIndia's elite students face internet access restrictions Mar 17, 2007 Buried treasure Mar 8, 2007 Rice Creepies: Mar 3, 2007 Toyota plant: Competition remains healthy Mar 1, 2007 The State of Software Quality, Part 1 Feb 21, 2007 Worth $2b, inventor fighting to keep his job Feb 18, 2007 Massive Insider Breach At DuPont Feb 17, 2007 Obituaries -- Feb. 15, 2007 Feb 15, 2007 The Home Depot Names President for China Retail Operations Feb 13, 2007 Army releases profile of IT saboteurs Feb 9, 2007 Study notes link between IT sabotage, work behavior Feb 8, 2007 To Build or Buy? That is No Longer the Question - Part II Jan 31, 2007 The promise and peril of 'intentional software' Jan 28, 2007 New report provides in-depth analysis of recent commuting trends Jan 26, 2007 Make vroom, Spyker's coming to India Jan 25, 2007 Report recommends withdrawal of OMB Risk Assessment Bulletin Jan 12, 2007 New source of stem cells? Jan 8, 2007
ScienceDaily: Junk Food Ban. Report Recommends Nutrition Standards For 'Competitive' Foods And Drinks Sold In Schools. (Science Daily)
All's quiet in, around offices at core of probe Apr 27, 2007
Luo Yunbo, head of the Food Science and Nutrition Engineering Institute at China's Agricultural University said that some Chinese food manufacturers include additives that are inappropriate. "Sometimes people lack enough knowledge of additives, or even if they do know, they still do it," Luo said, blaming weak punishment and "blanks" in China's food legislation. (USA Today -- Money)
Public release date: 26-Apr-2007. Contact: Maureen O'Leary. (EurekAlert!)
"Extending a computer network" by connecting wireless devices "is definitely a risk," said Art Manion, vulnerability analysis team lead at the CERT Coordination Center, the national computer security organization at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. "People are definitely running around looking for ways to access networks.". (USA Today -- Money)
"It is too late. Once something is on the public Web, the only fundamentally safe security assumption you can make is that it is in the public domain forever," said Art Manion, a computer security expert at CERT, part of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. If a site is posted only a short time, if it's not popular, the chances are lower, Mr. Manion said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Wang graduated from Harbin Engineering Institute and served in the People s Liberation Army from 1977-79 before joining Citic when the group was established by. He was named president of Citic in 1993 and chairman in 1995. (Forbes -- Business)
Engineers at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute have created a specialised laboratory that mimics the lunar surface for their rover. Unlike the solar-rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used by the US space agency's (Nasa) Mars rovers, the Chinese model will eventually run on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
The six-wheeled vehicle has been under development for four years at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute, where a laboratory has been outfitted to replicate the lunar surface, the Shanghai Daily reported. The 5-foot-high, 440-pound rover is designed to transmit video in real time, dig for and analyze soil samples, and produce three dimensional images of the lunar surface, the paper said. (USA Today -- Tech)
The development of the six-wheeled rover was announced at the China-United Kingdom Workshop on Space Science and Technology at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute in Shanghai, China on March 31, 2007. Participating in its development were scientists from Shanghai Spaceflight Agency, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shenyang Institute of Automation, and other Chinese research facilities. (iTWire)
The remote-controlled vehicle was unveiled on Saturday at a China-United Kingdom space technology seminar at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute in Minhang District in the city's south. The rover, which travels at an average speed of 100 meters per hour and is 1. (Xinhuanet, China)
The as-yet unnamed six-wheeled lunar vehicle has been under development for four years at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute, where a specialized testing laboratory has been outfitted to replicate the lunar surface, the Shanghai Daily reported. The 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Public release date: 27-Mar-2007. Contact: Vanee Vines. (EurekAlert!)
New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology. Public release date: 27-Mar-2007. (EurekAlert!)
The authorities in India's premier engineering institute, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay (Mumbai), have cut off internet access to students in hostels at night ... Banning the internet at night only hampers our work," he said. Top of the class The IITs are India's top engineering institutes where the best brains in the country are chosen to pursue their studies after a rigorous selection process. The facilities offered here are top-notch and there are very few engineering... (BBC News -- South Asia)
"He was lucky it wasn't so deep," says expedition member Shugui Hou, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Institute in Lanzhou. The good news is that summer temperatures are only -35. (Nature News Service)
Scientists at a Chinese robotic engineering institute remotely controlled a flying pigeon. First they implanted tiny electrodes in its brain. (Slate)
But in the wake of the joyous announcement, there has been some rather loud grousing by some Mississippi State University supporters that Ole Miss wants to create an automobile engineering institute to serve the Toyota project when State already has the school's successful Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems in place. Moreover, MSU's history is that of an agricultural and engineering research institution while Ole Miss is recognized for excellence in the liberal arts. (The Clarion-Ledger)
"Over the last 50 years there has been very little improvement," said Watts S. Humphrey, who founded the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, and was the director of programming at IBM. ... Watts S. Humphrey Founder, Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute. (SearchCIO.com)
1998: Donated $100 million to the University of Southern California to launch a biomedical engineering institute. 2004: Pledged $100 million to launch an Israeli medical-device institute. (Boston Globe)
While many companies worry about departed employees stealing intellectual property through some sort of back door planted in their IT systems, 75% of the 40 proprietary and confidential information thefts studied between 1996 and 2002 by Carnegie Mellon's CERT program in a July 2006 study were committed by current employees, says Dawn Cappelli, a senior member of the technical staff at the CERT program at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. Of those current employees committing... (InformationWeek)
The son of the late Leonard and Maria Dioguardi Quatrella, was born Oct. 24, 1926 in Jamaica, N.Y. Mr. Quatrella attended both the University of Bridgeport and the Bridgeport Engineering Institute. He was a retired electrical engineer from Norden Systems of Norwalk. (Easton Courier, CT)
Yves holds a bachelor's degree from the Beijing Chemical Engineering Institute, as well as a master's degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Chimiques and a Ph. D. from Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, both universities in Nancy, France. (PR Newswire)
ARMY BOFFINS along with the Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) programme, have come up with a typical profile of the worker who is most likely to sabotage a company's IT.. According to Techworld, workers who sabotage corporate systems are almost always IT workers who exhibit specific negative office behaviour. (Inquirer)
Workers who sabotage corporate systems are almost always IT workers who exhibit specific negative office behavior according to recent research by the U.S. military in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, which together analyzed insider cybercrimes across a variety of critical industry sectors. On this topic. (ITworld -- News)
That is No Longer the Question - Part II. CIO Update columnist Dan Gingras of Tatum, LLC, offers his insights into navigating the selection process in Part II of this two-part series. (CIO Information Network)
There are, on average, 100 to 150 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, according to a 1994 study by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. No wonder so much software is so bad: programmers are drowning in ignorance, complexity and error. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Public release date: 25-Jan-2007. Contact: Patrice Pages. (EurekAlert!)
The car-maker has also entered into an MoU with an engineering institute of Haryana for instituting a two-year masters programme in automotive engineering. Spyker is actively involved in motor sports. (India Times)
Public release date: 11-Jan-2007. Contact: Bill Kearney. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
The amniotic cells are neither human embryonic stem cells nor adult stem cells, which are slightly less resilient, says lead researcher Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest's Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering Institute ... Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest's Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering Institute works at a research lab in Winston-Salem, N.C. Amniotic cells are "something in between" embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells, Atala says. (USA Today -- Tech)
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