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Microsoft and APHSA Survey Reveals Status of Health and Human Services IT Modernization Efforts and a Promising Future for Transformation

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2012Technologyaphsa, bipartisan, child welfare, factor, florida, Health, hhs transformation, human services, it system modernization, laura caliguiri, Microsoft, microsoft dynamics crm, survey, Technology, tracy wareing

States in need of best practices and flexible IT solutions that improve access, quality and efficiency in the financing and delivery of health and human services programs.

REDMOND, Wash., and WASHINGTON — Nov. 13, 2012 — The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), in coordination with Microsoft Corp., today released the results of a new survey of health and human services departments and agencies nationwide. The report, “A Promising Future for HHS Transformation — The Real Impact of IT System Modernization,” includes survey findings that identify the expectations, strategies and practices that health and human services (HHS) agencies use for the planning, acquisition and implementation of their information technology (IT) systems.

APHSA and Microsoft surveyed 67 agency program leaders from 35 states at various stages of modernizing their HHS IT systems, from those who have implemented solutions for eligibility determination and benefit issuance, case management, and online self-service to those who had not yet modernized. The survey focuses on capturing the agencies’ experience with organizational transformation planning efforts, the agencies’ system life-cycle challenges, and the impact and benefits the agencies experienced from IT modernization. The results revealed that with dynamic executive leadership, due diligence and solid program management practices, departments are seeing incremental benefits expected of IT modernization, but a number of challenges remain. With those challenges, a bright path exists to achieve the desired business benefits for transformation through the promise of today’s technology. (more…)

Top 5 Advantages of Sixth Sense Technology

By Guest PostNovember 7, 2012Technologybrianne, browsing, camera, computer device, desktop computer, electronics industry, email, gesture, it, laptop, microsoft office, mirror, mobile, new dimension, playing game, pocket projector, sixth sense, suite, tablet, Technology, user guide

Sixth Sense Technology is made up of several parts like pocket projector, camera, and mirror. All these are connected together to one mobile computer device. The device made from Sixth Sense Technology is extremely portable and can be worn around the neck. There are several benefits of Sixth Sense Technology. Let’s have a look at the top 5.

Number 1:

Sixth Sense features a certain user guide that is extremely simple to use. There are several important gestures that people can easily learn without even going through rigorous tutorials. These gestures include taking a photo, or making a call over phone, or even trying to check out the time.To take a photo snap, the user need to simply make a hand gesture in the air that feels like a rectangle. With this simple gesture, the picture will get snapped. Yes, this is what Sixth Sense Technology is all about. The snapped picture will be stored carefully in the device’s memory card. User will always have direct access to the picture whenever he/she wants to edit it. The user can easily resize the image and carry out editing simply with the help of some finger motions over the projected screen. (more…)

Advancing the Digital Humanities

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2012Educationafrican american literature, arizona, aurasma application, bryan carter, cable television, culture, devices, digital format, digital humanities, internet, ipads, iphones, jeremy patrick gesuale, ken mcallister, mobile network, music, o2, online course, phone calls, smartphone, social media, surfing, Technology, telegraph, uk, university, voicethreads, web

Bryan Carter, a UA assistant professor of Africana studies, is among faculty members in the arts and humanities more readily employing consumer-based technologies in educational, creative, interdisciplinary and engaging ways.

Take a guess – what are the most common uses for devices like smartphones?

Earlier this year, the UK-based mobile network O2 reported that, on average, people use their smartphones to access the Internet, communicate via social media and listen to music. Other popular uses, as explained by an article in The Telegraph, include playing games and making phone calls. (more…)

Interactive Classroom

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2012Educationbuyer, catherine eckel, class, computer generated, dallas, economic scenarios, economics professor, ellen green, equilibrium price, experimental economics, game, interactive, introductory economics, market, markets, personal experience, posted offer, profit maximization, real world, sheryl ball, teaching program, teaching system, Technology, texas, virginia tech, widgets, wireless, wits, wits programs

Economics professor implements Wireless Interactive Teaching System

Ellen Green, a visiting assistant professor of economics in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, is finding new ways to engage students in the classroom instead of simply lecturing.

Green uses a Wireless Interactive Teaching System (WITS) in her introductory economics classes that enables students to act as players in different economic scenarios — they even compete against each other during class. (more…)

Commentary: John E. Savage – Cybersecurity Needed in the Public Domain

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2012Technology, Weaponsaramco, awareness month, cutting edge, cyber security, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, department, domestic industry, flooding attack, gas, global internet, john e savage, leon panetta, national, national level, october, oil, oil company, policy, President Obama, production, qatar, ras gas company, saudi arabian, secretary, shamoon virus, solution, state, Technology, united states, wang professor

President Obama designated October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. We asked John E. Savage, the An Wang Professor of Computer Science, to share his views on what can and should be done to ensure cybersecurity at the national level. Savage is active in cybersecurity from both a policy and technology point of view, having spent the 2009-10 academic year in the U.S. Department of State as a Jefferson Science Fellow.

In a major policy speech delivered last week, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta sparked a new discussion of cyberwarfare threats, warning that cyberattacks “could virtually paralyze the nation.” The three-part response Panetta outlined emphasizes new cyberwarfare capabilities in the Department of Defense, new policies and organizations across the federal government, and stronger partnerships between the government and international partners and domestic industry. (more…)

Microsoft Helps W3C Create Single Site for Web Standards

By Guest PostOctober 8, 2012Technologyadobe, browser, challenge, clarity consulting, css property, developer network, device, director, docs, erik klimczak, Facebook, Google, hp, html5, image, internet explorer, logo, Microsoft, mozilla, multiple browser, nokia, online resource, opera, optimize, pixel lab, rey bango, robby ingebretsen, Technology, uniformly scale, w3c, web developer, web innovation, web platform, web specification, web standard, web technology, website, windows, windows azure, windows phone

A new community-driven site provides a comprehensive and authoritative source for Web developer documentation.

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 8, 2012 — Web innovations are emerging at a relentless pace, and Web developers face the daily challenge of finding the accurate information needed to build great websites that work across the gamut of browsers and devices. Too often, their quest can feel like a wild goose chase.

They search numerous online resources, grapple with conflicting information, and cobble together what they hope is all the information they need on the technology or specification. In the worst case, the information they get is incomplete, dated or inaccurate. (more…)

Right to Science?

By Guest PostOctober 6, 2012Scienceaaas, abuja, africa, african university, apa, article 15, benefit, bill ullman, cultural rights, deborah ehrenthal, delaware, developing world, doug buttrey, doug doren, economic, human right, institution, intellectual property, international covenant, jessica wyndham, mark barteau, nelson mandela, nigeria, nmi, rights, Science, scientific advancement, scientific inquiry, sepp, social, steve dentel, sub-saharan, Technology, tom powers, ud campus, united nations, university, workshop, world bank

Workshop helps to define the human right to benefit from science

Conscience. Expression. Property. Fair trial. Peaceful assembly. And science?

Yes, says the University of Delaware’s Tom Powers, the international community has declared that there is an inalienable human right to science.

In 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees in Article 27 “the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”

The same right was reaffirmed by the U.N. General Assembly in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1966. (more…)

Technology in the Classroom

By Guest PostOctober 5, 2012Educationclassroom, clickers, delaware, earth, geological hazards, geological sciences, geological topics, hollywood, misconceptions, molten liquid, plate tectonics, susan mcgeary, Technology, ud capture, university, video, virginia earthquake

A professor uses clickers and UD Capture to make a large class feel smaller

Susan McGeary, associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Delaware, incorporated clickers and UD Capture for the first time in spring 2012 to see if she could increase student participation. What McGeary did not expect was the level of engagement in her Geological Hazards course, which is a 250-300 person class.

“Clickers seemed to remove the barrier between me and the students; they approached me more, asked more questions, were more involved during the class — it was exciting,” McGeary said. (more…)