Tag Archives: Israel

Rare Gold Coin in Israel

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Culture, Science2, 200-year-old coin, alexandria, andrea berlin, andrew booz, antiquities, donald ariel, egyptian ptolemies, hellenistic age, Iraq, Israel, israel museum, james r wiseman, Jerusalem, john g pedley, kelsey museum, kelsey museum of archaeology, lisa cakmak, ptolemaic egyptian queen, ptolemaic mint, seleucid empire, sharon herbert, sharon webb, tel kedesh, university of michigan, upper galilee

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of Michigan doctoral instructor Lisa Cakmak what he first thought was a gold candy wrapper.

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IBM and European Union Join to Develop New Collaborative e-Business Model Extending Open Source and Cloud Technologies

By Guest PostJuly 7, 20101 commentTechnologyacsi, artifact-centric service interoperation, cloud, dynamic artifacts, e-services, environments, European Union, fabiana Fournier, guiseppe de giacomo, haifa, ibm research manager, Israel, it, richard hull, saas, software as a service, university of rome la sapienza

*Aims for 40% cost reductions in the design, deployment and management of e-service blends*

HAIFA, Israel – 07 Jul: IBM today announced, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, the launch of a research consortium which aims to help businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services – or “e-services” – to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals.

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