Events

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - Frontiers in Optics 2006 - the 90th Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA) - will showcase a wide range of the latest research breakthroughs in optical science and engineering. The meeting will be held from Oct. 8-12 at the Rochester Convention Center in Rochester, N.Y., the city known [...]

Intel Corporation hosted the first meeting in Latin America to unite leaders representing 16 countries to set a new technology direction to support the region’s social and economic growth.
“Increasing access to technology can be a critical driver of economic growth, but it will require Latin America’s leaders to work together to create policy and make [...]

On Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006, Stevens Institute of Technology will formally welcome the Class of 2010 in its traditional Convocation Ceremony, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Canavan Arena, located in the Schaefer Athletic Center on the Hoboken campus.
In keeping with years past, the Stevens community will recognize several illustrious faculty members with the conferral [...]

Since 1979, people from around the world have congregated in Central Texas in search of intelligent life. They meet in a local hotel and huddle in groups both large and small discussing various mysteries of the universe. While they may not be UFO seekers who couldn’t get all the way to Roswell, they are die-hard [...]

NVIDIA will be featuring the company’s latest mobile and desktop solutions, for both consumer and enterprise customers, at WinHEC 2006 next week (May 22-25) in Seattle. Designed to support the advanced visual and 3D features found in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) and media and communications processor (MCP) based [...]

With research that will make an impact ranging from solar-cell technology to new and improved packaging materials, one University of Houston professor is leading the way in a nanocoatings conference that will bring academia, government, and industry research into one venue.
Rigoberto Advincula, an associate professor of chemistry and adjunct associate professor of chemical engineering at [...]

Ontrack Data Recovery is sponsoring a data management and recovery symposium - the first course of its kind - for IT professionals and other individuals who are responsible for data security, protection, compliance and recovery information. The symposium, which will be held on April 27 at the company’s headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is designed [...]

Zed, CBC Radio 3, and Mobile MUSE, have partnered with the Vancouver International Digital Festival (Vidfest) on a unique contest for all new media producers with a love of the mobile medium.
Starting April 3, 2006, the Vidfest 2006 Content A-Go-Go Mobile Challenge invites digital media creators to upload their podcasts, short films and documentaries, animation, [...]

Science can be as funny as it can be practical. Donald Macleod of The Guardian Unlimited writes:
From the invention of anti-flatulence underwear to the tragic death of a sparrow at the hands of an infuriated domino-toppling enthusiast - the IgNobel prizes continue to throw up superbly improbable research.
This week a cluster of IgNobel laureates are [...]

Matt Moore of the AP (via BusinessWeek) writes:
FRANKFURT, GERMANY - The annual CeBIT high-tech fair is set to show off a new range of advanced mobile phones, ultra-light laptops, powerful yet compact digital cameras and - maybe - Microsoft’s latest secret project.
Established names such as Intel and Samsung will vie for product buzz with newcomers [...]

It’s quite trendy to use a Weblog as a bully pulpit to complain about something or other, and every so often I can’t resist the siren song myself. It’s hard not to be upset, though, when watching the 2006 Winter Olympics coverage on NBC TV, however, with its endless commercials, insipid background vignettes, and idiotic [...]

Like a rock concert for the digirati, Chris Shipley’s DEMO conference begins its 16th year in Phoenix, AZ today. In the 700-strong audience are the elite from the VC community, pundits from the tech rags and 60 or so hopeful startups eager to have their wares and inventions noticed.

The tech world will be focused on Sin City over the next few days, as the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off.
New product launches, keynotes, press releases, and the like abound at this time of year. CES sets the course for personal technology for the year, and this show should be one of the [...]

If you are looking for ideas on what to get the special geek in your life, or if you are looking to win cool gadgets in time for the holidays, the 2005 Gear Live Holiday Gift Giveaway Guide is not only compiling a list of cool and unique technology gifts for the holidays - it [...]

Geek cruise excursions by Geek Cruises are not only fun, they are fascinating and educational. In fact, as cruise lines go, they have the highest “justifiable” factor around.
Oh, you want celebrity cruises? How about its “MacMania” geek celebrity cruise, featuring geek celebrities Steve Wozniak and Leo Laporte, and taking you from San Diego [...]

I’ve a busy calendar in the next few months and wanted to let people know about the many opportunities you have to learn about business blogging, how businesses can gain visibility - and findability - through utilizing the blogosphere, and how to mine blogs for competitive intelligence, market research, and customer satisfaction.
Here’s an overview:

By John Tintle, Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
For those who can’t get enough of seeing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Google has helped you out. Google Maps has added a Katrina button for maps of New Orleans, Louisiana, so you can see the before satellite images and after images. An easy and very [...]

Collaborative technologies are changing the way people interact, and key elements of successful implementations will have both presence - to allow communities of people to interact with “one click”- and persistence - which will enable a memory or continuity of that interaction.
Already, collaborative technology has enabled productivity increases, but the true transformational changes will be [...]

Tomorrow morning and afternoon Linuxfest Northwest will be streaming exclusive presentations from Google, Real Networks, and IBM among others. Broadcasts for the day include Chuck Gray of IBM at 11:30am and Chris DiBona of Google at 1pm PST.

“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, [...]