Reconfiguring The Enterprise (Forbes)
Standardization and simplification will offer huge savings for CIOs, but getting there may not be so easy.
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Archive for August, 2009
Laser Physics Milestone: UC Berkeley (redOrbit)
Image 1: Both pictures show a bright emerald green point of light from a single plasmon laser emanating from the optical setup used by UC Berkeley researchers. These semiconductor lasers — the world’s smallest — are extremely efficient, so the small amount of scattered light is clearly visible, even in ambient room lighting. Camera saturation of the bright laser light gives the impression of a …
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Home Sweet Home: Where The Presidents Lived Before (And After) The White House (The Huffington Post)
Living in the White House is one of the top perks of being commander-in-chief. With 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, three elevators, five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a movie theater, a swimming pool, a bowling alley and a putting green, it’s not a bad place to call home.
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Autodesk’s Ambition to Change the Green Building Industry (Salon.com)
When software is designed well, it can radically improve the way an industry works. That’s the vision behind ongoing efforts at Autodesk to upgrade its building performance modeling software — to make energy retrofits of buildings cheaper and easier.
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Darien Road Race Fighting cancer step by step for 30 years (The Darien Times)
The year was 1979. It was the era of disco, Nike sneakers were less than a year old, and the second of the “Rocky” movies had just hit theaters. “I saw Rocky in the movie theaters,” said Mary Green. “It was that movie that made me decide to take up running.”
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