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Tuberculosis Study Launched, Powered By Citizen Scientists on IBM’s World Community Grid

By Guest PostMarch 24, 2016Health, Technologyhelp stop tb, ibm, project, tuberculosis

Crowdsourced research project led by University of Nottingham will help scientists better understand and address one of world’s deadliest diseases

ARMONK, NY & NOTTINGHAM, UK – 24 Mar 2016: IBM’s World Community Grid and scientists at the University of Nottingham are launching a study to address tuberculosis, one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is expected that hundreds of thousands of volunteers will donate vast computing resources to aid this effort facilitated by IBM. (more…)

Game developers use Microsoft Azure as ‘secret sauce’ for scale and growth

By Guest PostMarch 15, 2016Technologyalex rodriguez, chris mills, game developers, game troopers, hitcents, innospark, microsoft azure, secret sauce, steve guggenheimer, steve sy kim, stickman users

What’s more fun than drawing a stickperson and battling purple monster blobs? Sharing your stickperson with other people, whether it’s a cartoon hamburger on legs or a sketch of Michael Jackson as “Thriller” zombie. (more…)

Encouraging a new generation of women inventors to #MakeWhatsNext

By Guest PostMarch 8, 2016Education, Science, Technologydigigirlz event, france, kathleen hogan, makewhatsnext, Microsoft, women inventors, yvonne brill

Yvonne Brill invented satellite propulsion. Sarah Mather developed the underwater telescope. Ada Lovelace created the first computer algorithm. They were all women inventors, two words that many people don’t put together in a sentence very often. (more…)

Head up, heart down: Vertical placement matters

By Guest PostMarch 1, 2016Technologyadvertisement, aradhna krishna, head up, heart down, news website, vertical placement

ANN ARBOR — The metaphor is an old one in Western civilization—the head represents rationality and the heart represents emotion. The link is often made in speech and literature by pointing at one’s head (thinking) or at one’s chest (feeling). (more…)

How two software engineers found fantastic roles at Microsoft through Codess

By Guest PostFebruary 29, 2016Technologyalexa marenghi, christina lynch, codess, dublin office, Microsoft, sinead mcgivney, software engineers

When Sinead McGivney and Christina Lynch attended a Codess networking event in Dublin last year, they had no idea it would be the first step to finding exciting new careers as Bing Advertising Support engineers at Microsoft. (more…)

1 in 4 kids sexually harassed by friends online

By Guest PostFebruary 28, 2016General, Technologycybercrime, friends online, kids, sexually harassed, thomas holt

It’s not just strangers who target children online. Kids’ own friends are sexually harassing them over the Internet, finds new research led by a Michigan State University cybercrime expert. (more…)

IBM Closes Acquisition of Resource/Ammirati

By Guest PostFebruary 24, 2016Technologyacquisition, ammirati, Germany, ibm, ibm ix, paul papas, resource

IBM enhances global design and digital capabilities to create transformative brand experiences for clients

ARMONK, N.Y. – 24 Feb 2016: IBM today announced it completed the acquisition of Resource/Ammirati — a leading, US-based digital marketing and creative agency — to join IBM Interactive Experience or IBM iX, the world’s largest digital agency (1). Financial terms were not disclosed. (more…)

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