The second round of Presidential innovation fellows will include a NASA veteran, a University of Massachusetts professor who builds software tutoring systems and a former operations manager for Ushahidi... Read More »

So this looks interesting – the Oxford Uehiro Center for Ethics has launched a new open access journal called Journal of Practical Ethics, with as subtitle: A Journal of Philosophy, Applied to the Real World... Read More »

Intermountain Healthcare, in collaboration with consulting firm Deloitte, unveiled a data analytics tool this week that will leverage information from electronic health records improve patient treatment efforts via comparative effectiveness research. Read More »

Federal government leaders, industry leaders and academia agreed two years ago to double the pace of technological development. Today, they renewed that commitment. Read More »

[...] For the past decade, botnets have mostly been a problem for the PC world. But, according to a new report on mobile malware, it may not be long before we start seeing botnets built out of an increasingly sophisticated type of device: cell phones. Read More »

While 90 percent of healthcare CIOs view IT innovation as critical to success, the more surprising statistic is that fewer than one-fourth consider their existing infrastructure capable of supporting such technological advancement. Read More »

The world of fully open-sourced virtualized infrastructure is getting a new entrant today. Citrix is making the latest XenServer 6.2 release available under the GNU GPL v2 open source license. Read More »

How can we make the places we live more awesome through data? Read More »

The Obama Administration brought a new public policy strategy to the federal government in 2009: challenges, with prize money for private organizations that design solutions (typically software or apps) for policy problems. Read More »

Report from OpenClinica Conference: There are about 1200 OpenClinica installations around the world, although estimation is always hard to do with open source projects. Read More »