University of California, San Francisco scientists are reporting what they say is a significant improvement in the technique for genetically reprogramming mouse cells to their embryonic state, a process that transforms the cells, in essence, into embryonic stem cells. The scientists developed an alternative to this genetically engineered "switch" technique. They developed serum-free conditions in the cell culture dish that both p

We are currently in the middle of a multi-million dollar energy management project at the University of North Carolina. There are many aspects of it, including creating generic web-service gateways to a variety of underlying low-level protocols (BACnet, LON, Sigma, KNX) and aggregating them up to a central monitoring system we call the Enterprise Building Management System (EBMS).

Information Week has a feature article Are we facing an IT shortage of crisis proportions, or systematically destroying a skilled and capable homegrown workforce?
It is nice to see a feature article that entertains the possibility that there is no shortage. What I cannot understand is why American management thinks they can control this. Lenovo is the

How do security companies measure Internet threat levels? To find out the answer we collected a year's worth of threat level data from four security companies and compared the results. The results show very little similarity between the four companies, which turns the question "How do they do it?" into "Why do they do it?". It appears to be not possible to accurately measure and represent the global Internet threat level.

From Reuters: Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct when it disappeared from fossil records 80 million years ago, an official said on Sunday.

Researcher Nariman Jidawi of Zanzibar's Institute of Marine Science said the fish was caught off the tropical island's northern tip.