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RedPrairie leads RFID project for Unilever

Waukesha, Wis. - beginning this week. The pilot will enable Unilever to implement and test RFID technology in its supply chain to prepare for compliance with the mandates from Wal-Mart other...

Part 2 Project performance Get on the path to continuous improvement

Deming is reported to have said, Survival is optional. Is it? In a way, it depends on how you...

Part 1 Project performance Get on the path to continuous improvement

So, tell me, why are your projects still late, costing too much and not deliv...

Transformation of Filamentous Fungi by Microprojectile Bombardment

Roland W. Herzog, Molecular Genetics Program, Department ofBotany and Microbiology, 101 Life Sciences Building, AuburnUniversity, AL 36849-5407, USA The vast majority of transformation protocols for filamentous fungi are based on permeabilizing cell membranes with polyethylene glycol (PEG) or...

Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) and Expression Profiling of Long-Range Projection Neurons

Abstract Brain tissue is notoriously heterogeneous, and accurate analysis of neural gene expression requires procurement of specific cell types. In this application note a technique is described for using Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) and in-vivo labeling to obtain purified populations of projection...

IT Task Force to examine Workforce Development projects

The hearing, which will focus on three Department of...

NimbleGen researcher to lead $415K DNA project

Albert, director of advanced research for NimbleGen, will be the lead investigator on a two-year, $415,000 grant award that is part of the...

GOP, Dems split over funding of state technology projects

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Company still behind schedule on Milwaukee wireless project

The council has voted to give Midwest Fibe...

State of Wisconsin dumps another tech project

According to a report in the has decided to stop work on a new automat...

RFID pilot project aims to improve blood banks

is partnering with three blood banks and multiple vendor partners on what is b...

Project to create tech-based healthcare tools

Another, more readily available way to empower people to become better healthcare consumers might be made possible by cell phones and other mobile computing devices, and a...

Techware revives broadband project

Techware, which provides computer consult...

TeraMedica embraces open source project

is lending its expertise to developing an open source digital imaging and communicati...

Got bugs? New project lets real computer users gang up on software bugs

Ben Liblit offers a bold prediction regarding all of the complicated software programs churning away in your computer: They have bugs. All of them. Guaranteed. "Software bugs are part of the mathematical fabric of the universe," says Liblit, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientist. "It is impossible with a capital 'I' to detect or anticipate all bugs." <div...

AT&T should set sights higher than repackaging DSL with Project Lightspeed

If you're going to go through all this redeployment, AT&T should be setting its sights higher on real broadband and long-term capabilities. Providing another flavor of DSL is shortsighted. The marketing strategy of Project Lightspeed should be to...

Microsoft rewards Berbee for project management expertise

The Madison-based IT solutions provider this month became the first Microsoft Gold partner headquartered in the Midwest to achieve Microsoft's Enterprise Project Manag...

Consultant says beware hidden costs of bad IT projects

Robert Balon, a principal in in Chicago, delivered that sobering message Wednesday at the Milwaukee Athletic Club d...

Auditors outline what they want to know about state IT projects

The findings of an audit into troubled information technology projects and systems in state agencies might lead to legislation and even more audits, according to the co-chair of the Legislative Audit Committee. State senator Carol A. Roessler, R-Oshkosh, anticipates the audit will be completed in about a year, in time for work on the 2007-09 biennial budget. "That is critically important...

Oracle out, Microsoft in for state e-mail project

Wisconsin is scrapping an Oracle-based e-mail installation and trying to recover $2.1 million in licenses and consulting fees, based on a pilot program that lasted for at least six months and seemed to be going well until insurmountable technical difficulties cropped up. State CIO Matt Miszewski and Department of Administration Secretary Steve Bablitch said in a letter to state agency he...

Concentrated solar energy project wins Innovation Days prizes

Angie Franzke's concentrating solar collector won first place last Friday in both the Schoofs Prize for Creativity and the Tong Prototype Prize, winning $12,500. Instead of the mirror...

Classroom projects translate into immediate workplace gains

In the final semester of his University of Wisconsin-Madison master's degree, Bob Aloisi didn't just earn a letter grade in his quality engineering class: He saved his company $50,000. It wasn't the typical classroom outcome, but then this classroom wasn't typical. As a student in "Quality Engineering and Quality Management," Aloisi accomplished a major class project in quality improveme...

Doyle offers $700,000 in grants to bio-energy projects

Governor Jim Doyle said the state Department of Agriculture is launching a $1 million program he put in the 2005 budget to boost the development of renewable energy sources and materials. Of the program's funding, $700,000 will go into grants of up to $150,000 each for businesses or individuals working on biologically based fuels, waste reclamation systems or materials. Proposals are due...

Internet Scout Project develops better tools for online research

As the information revolution took hold, some groups envisioned the need to find structure among growing volumes of electronic files. The was established in 1994 to develop better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information. The Scout Project team combines library and computer science organizational conce...

Internet Scout celebrates 10 years on web, eyes new project launch

From the beginning, the Internet Scout Project has been on the job, providing better tools for finding, filtering and presenting online information. Internet Scout is currently celebrating its first decade on the Web and also looking forward to a fu...

San Diego firm selected for Madison Wi-Fi project

, a global leader in the design, deployment, and management of wireless communication networks, technology networks and security systems, announced today that it has been selected to provide network design and deployment services for the City of Madison, Wisconsin's proposed municipal Wi-Fi network. Wo...

The Croquet Project: An open source solution to the OS monopoly

For the past few years, it has been the goal of a research team working from the and the <a...

Report gives nod to controversial Lawson project

The UW-Madison Lawson Assessment Project report suggests that the UW System continue to work with St. Paul, Minn.-based <a href="http://www.lawson.com/index.s...

Readers respond to Katrina Phone Project

The phones are...

Corporate clients will dominate surge in nanotech tool demand, study projects

Corporate research and development will dominate a surge in demand for nanotech tools in the coming years, according to a study released this week by a New York consulting firm that focuses on nanotechnology. The study, by "Interest i...

UW-Platteville linked to UC-Irvine project management program

The Project Management Certificate Program will offer professionals access to online career training and...

UW working to salvage multi-million HR software project

The Appointmen...

Technology development projects receive funding

The projects are as follows: ., is a Madison company esta...

UW students compete to make hydrogen cars, other renewable projects

"It's a hands-on p...

UW Condor project is a piece of CERN's massive grid computer

The University of Wisconsin's Condor software project will provide a component of a cutting-edge grid computing system at European research heavyweight CERN has a computing network with more than 100 sites in 3...

Third Wave co-founder shoots for small target in latest project

Teams led by Dahlberg and collaborator Wayne Tam at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell Un...

MapTeach project spreads Alaskan geographic knowledge online

Traditional, rural Alaskan knowledge can now spread globally thanks to a joint effort between UW-Madisons Environmental Remote Sensing Center and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. Their <a target="_blank" href="htt...

Scout Project plans online library portal with $2.6 million grant

will use a recent $2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and technical college educators access to the National Science...

Steering a project portfolio takes more than expensive software

Practically everybody knows that ERP isnt the rude noise somebody makes in a meeting after too many donuts and soda. And most of that savvy population also knows that Enterprise Resource Planning isnt some silver bullet solving your company-wide functional problems with a single check to a vendor. Im not out to shoot that duck in a barrel today. What is apparently less obvious is that ER...

Meriter IT team builds project performance through internal relationships

, a not-for-profit, 448-bed community hospital in Madison that provides medical care to southern Wisconsin. Meriter includes a hospital, clinic, retirement living facility, laboratories and a home health care service. Formed from a m...