CIO Leadership Series: Brian Hurdis, Metavante

Perhaps higher. Hurdis, senior executive vice president and chief information officer for is immersed in a multi-milli...

Patent enforcement: What you don't know might hurt you

You or your company may have no patents and, generally, little perceived need to be concerned with patent matters. However, there is a growing group of entities that consider enforcing patents to...

Healthcare needs of hurricane-hit region being monitored by West Allis company's system

Following the onset of Hurricane Katrina, the U...

Hurricane Katrina: Many disaster recovery systems were outdated

Despite predictions and preventative measures, Katrina caught many businesses and people off guard. Asks adjunct Northwestern professor James Carlini, what disaster recovery plans do you really have in place for your business and your home and how updated are they? While most of the news coverage has focused on the people and residential aspects, few reports have really taken into consi...

Images from new telescope to be released Thursday

UW-Madison is a leading partner in th...

Local meteorology company accurately predicts Hurricane Dennis landfall

On Friday, July 8, Weather Central's Super MicroCast...

Attempt to exclude stem cell companies from tax credit bill hurts Wisconsin

That's what happened last week when the Assembly approved a bill to grant rese...

Milky Way churning out new stars at a furious pace

MADISON - Some of the first data from a new orbiting infrared telescope are revealing that the Milky Way - and by analogy galaxies in general - is making new stars at a much more prolific pace than astronomers imagined. The findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope were announced today (May 27) at a NASA headquarters press briefing by Edward Churchwell, a University of Wisconsin-Madis...

Hurricane Ups Weather Forecasting Attention For Madison Firm

MADISON, WIAs Americans prepare for Hurricane Isabel to hit the East Coast, the accuracy of weather forecasting is on many people minds as they flee their homes and businesses. People are watching TV, listening to radio and accessing the Internet to find out the latest path of the storm. A new product from <a href="http://www.weather...