Here are some stories of interest: Rebirth of Irridium? The Ariane launched a giant satellite into space to provide phone coverage for North America. Instead of many small satelittes in low orbit to provide worldwide coverage – one big satelitte to cover one continent. The question becomes will they put a few more up to [...]
This is pretty cool – Toyota develops a mind controled wheelchair. Toyota (NYSE: TM) researchers in Japan have built a brain/machine interface (BMI) that has been demonstrated to control a wheelchair using a person’s thoughts. The system enables a person to make a wheelchair turn left or right to move forward simply by thinking [...]
Here at the Maricopa Community Colleges we have implemented several plans to fully understand and provide High Impact Service. One of our strategies is to hold a monthly meeting where we discuss different standards of this goal. During our meeting last week, we discussed “Excellence” and the following questions were among those addressed: 1 – [...]
Google Gmail, calendar, and other Google applications have lost their beta status. Google is removing the “beta” label from many of its key services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, and Google Video for Business. The move is seen as a way to attract large businesses to Google Apps, its suite of messaging [...]
Our company is called MATEC (Maricopa Advanced Technology Center) and we’re partially funded by a grant from the NSF (National Science Foundation). Part of MATEC is NetWorks which is an ATE (Advanced Technological Education) National Resource Center. If you were able to follow that first paragraph then you can see that we deal with acronyms [...]
“Something’s at the edge of your mind, you don’t know what it is. Somethin’ you were hopin’ to find, your not sure what it is…” It is hard to believe that the Sony Walkman turns 30 this week. This revolutionized music for the masses and set the stage for the iPod. I remember getting my [...]
This report was just brought to my attention and is based on a study of industry’s view of new job entrants. They categorized their skills as “excellent,” adequate” or “deficient.” On page 32 of the report very few rank entrants with a High School diploma as excellent and note major deficiencies in language, communication, and [...]
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