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- Better Collaboration and Deeper Context Improves Pfizer Research Decision Making
- The Pfizer Global Research and Development unit has 12,000 scientists in seven research centers working on the next generation of pharmaceutical products. Pfizer scientists need to review existing research in a database with millions of records of previous experiments. In a joint effort, experts from Pfizer, Microsoft, and Infosys developed...
- Tags: Collaboration, Pfizer Inc., Scientist, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Pfizer Global Research And Development Unit, Research & Development, Microsoft Office, Storage, Databases, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
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- The mad scientist's chemical desk reference
- The Indopedia has this handy list of famous fictional chemical substances, broken down by entirely fictional elements, fictional isotopes of real elements, fictional properties of real elements, fictional compounds and alloys, and fictional medicines or drugs. Required reading for any supervillain in training. Besides classics like Adamantium,...
- Tags: Scientist, Indopedia, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Biofuel start-up to make ethanol at $1 a gallon
- Coskata, a firm from Illinois, promises to produce ethanol for less than $1 per gallon from a process that uses bacteria for ethanol generation from organic material. An excerpt from Wired: "It's not five years away, it's not 10 years away. It's affordable, and it's now,"...
- Tags: Production, Discovery, Scientist, Corn, Strategic Planning, Productivity, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Manufacturing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Communication advances for the dogs
- In January of 2007, I wrote a post about how a security firm, Bio-Sense Technologies, was trying to interpret a dog's bark "to see if a dog is responding to a threat instead of just making a lot of noise. " Low and behold, it's one year...
- Tags: Scientist, Help Desk, Call Centers, Network Administration, Networking, Security, It Operations, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Leading Defence Research Company Puts 24-Hour Information at Scientists' Fingertips
- Scientists and engineers at defence research company QinetiQ use intellectual capital from internal and external systems to support their revolutionary scientific developments. But libraries were underused, and information often difficult to access. The Enterprise Portal, based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, is a result of the research company's work...
- Tags: Research Company, Scientist, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Search, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- 3D Mad Scientist Penguins of Zoo Nation (exe)
- 3D Mad Scientist Penguins of Zoo Nation has 7 main scenes with 3 mini-vignettes for each of the 6 indoor scenes. Mad Scientist Penguins use the Zoo Nation "Build A Creature Kit" on Halloween to create ghosts, mummy, a Frankenstein monster, a Carmen-Miranda Dancing Skeleton, an Alien and a batch...
- Tags: 3D, Scientist, Scene, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-15
- A YouTube for the scientific community
- Philip Bourne, professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, has started on a new venture called SciVee that he hopes will provide an avenue for scientists to leverage the features of online video portals for the demonstration of experiments and white papers. ...
- Tags: Scientist, YouTube Inc., Video, Site, SciVee, Corporate Communications, Portals, Marketing, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Images: Streaking star carries a tail of seeds
- NASA discovered that a red-giant star rocketing across the universe is leaving a trail of debris that could eventually form new stars, solar systems and even life. NASA scientists are ecstatic over the discovery of a tail or trail of gas and dust trailing the red giant star Mira as...
- Tags: Mira, tail, wavelength, trail, NASA, debris, scientist, shock
- Image galleries 2007-08-22
- Seven warning signs of bogus science
- In an age where we still have to convince people that the Apollo landings actually happened and that perpetual motion devices don't actually exist, it's handy to have these Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science around to help the logically disinclined ferret out the charlatans among us: ...
- Tags: Scientist, Discoverer, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Photos: Peace in Los Alamos
- It might be the last place you'd expect it, but at Los Alamos National Lab, scientists are working on ways to keep the world safe from weapons of mass destruction.A replica of "The gadget," the atomic device exploded at the Trinity site in the New Mexico wilderness on July 16,...
- Tags: photograph, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Bradbury Science Museum, Trinity Test, replica, bomb, droplet, mineral, vicinity, comic, reproduction, sand, museum, New Mexico, suspicion, helm, professor, scientist, director, security
- Image galleries 2007-08-06
- Images: Scientists reconstruct Sept. 11 images
- Computer images designed to help study structural damage sustained by North Tower.
- Tags: Sept. 11, scientist, image, computer
- Image galleries 2007-06-21
- Photos: Searching for Earth-size planets
- At an open meeting at the SETI Institute, scientists discuss NASA's plans to use the new Kepler spacecraft to search for Earth-size planets orbiting stars.
- Tags: photograph, Earth-size, spacecraft, NASA, scientist
- Image galleries 2007-04-13
- Photos: Where the menu is an appetizer
- Master chef and food scientist Homaro Cantu's culinary concoctions turn regular notions of food and flavor upside down. Just don't call him a molecular gastronomonist.
- Tags: food, scientist, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-03-30
- Images: A century of polar exploration
- For more than 125 years, scientists have ventured to the Earth's poles to study climate change, animal life and the mysteries of the universe.
- Tags: Earth, pole, scientist
- Image galleries 2007-03-02
- Photos: Cashing in on green ideas
- Scientists at the Cleantech Forum hope they can turn algae, seawater, and moth hormones into profits.
- Tags: scientist, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-02-21
- Geek Trivia: Elements of surprise
- What are the only two synthetic elements with atomic numbers lower than uranium? For an occupation ostensibly dedicated to clarifying the nature of the empirically observed universe, science (or, rather, scientists) often has a devil of a time speaking plainly. Take, for example, the phrase synthetic element,...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, synthetic element, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Earth, Scientist, Truth, Uranium, Bomb, Technetium, Promethium, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware
- Technical articles 2006-09-12
- Half-Life Facility Escape (zip)
- You play as Gordon Freeman, a scientist that was in the accident in Black Mesa. This map is set after Gordon exits a duct. This is a Half-Life 1 map named Facility Escape. Pretty fun. Please feel free to comment on this level.
- Tags: Scientist, Accident, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2006-03-15
- Jr. Scientist (exe)
- This game gives kids a fun way to experience being a scientist. Kids go through a science lab and help animals and fairy-tale characters with science experiments. The game shows kids a positive role model and gives them a fun learning experience.
- Tags: Scientist, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-02-20
- A Scientific Workflow Approach to Distributed Geospatial Data Processing Using Web Services
- Web based interfaces allow access to remote data and tools, and enable running computational experiments using different online resources. However, it requires manual processing to combine multiple resources in pipelines and scientists still need IT experts to automate their large-scale scientific workflows. The challenging problem is how to enable the...
- Tags: Web, Scientist, Web Service, Workflow, University Of California, Process Improvement, Channel Management, Productivity, Web Services, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-09-15
- WIRED NextFest 2006
- The WIRED NextFest is a four-day event that showcases innovative products and technologies. This year's NextFest, held at the Javits Center in New York, featured more than 130 exhibits from leading scientists and researchers.©Webshots - brittleskittle2
- Tags: exhibit, New York, scientist, Wired Inc., WIRED NextFest
- Image galleries 2006-10-10
