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Budget Plan Gives VA Big Funding Boost For Veterans Care
The Veterans Affairs Department does not appear to be feeling the pinch of fiscal austerity in President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal: The White House has proposed a 10.2 percent boost in funding for VA next year, totaling $66.5 billion in discretionary spending. Read More »
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Build Your Own Internet With Mobile Mesh Networking
Software can let smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and other hardware link up without centralized Internet service. Read More »
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Build Your Own Supercomputer Out Of Raspberry Pi Boards
Who says you need a few million bucks to build a supercomputer? Joshua Kiepert put together a Linux-powered Beowulf cluster with Raspberry Pi computers for less than $2,000. Read More »
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Build Your Own Supercomputer: First $99 Parallella Boards Ship
Who says you need millions for a supercomputer? Not Adapteva, which has started shipping its $99 Parallella single-board parallel processing board. Read More »
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Build Your Own Watson with Open Source Software
The key analytical technology underlying IBM’s Watson, winner of the Jeopardy! contest against two previously unbeaten contestants, is an open source program called UIMA, for Unstructured Information Management application. Read More »
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Building A business On OpenStreetMap Data? OpenCage Data Wants To Make That Easier
With location becoming a key part of many new apps and services, the use of free OpenStreetMap data seems like a no-brainer. But, as OpenCage Data company Lokku learned, there’s a lot of complexity involved. Read More »
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Building An Effective ACO: Longitudinal Records Enable Collaboration
Once an accountable care organization (ACO) or other collaborative care entity has laid the foundation for a robust health data exchange by ensuring the electronic capture of complete clinical and financial information at the individual provider level, the next step is to build the core of the structure – the longitudinal patient record. Read More »
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Building Blocks For Open Source Hardware
Many open source designs are based on existing hardware. This approach lets you prototype your design using an off the shelf development board, then move to your own PCB design once you're confident with your design. It's a popular and effective way to build a product... Read More »
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Building BRCK: The Story Behind Ushahidi’s Mobile Internet Router
Why do we rely on equipment made for Berlin, Orlando and Tokyo when the conditions we have in Nairobi, Lagos or New Delhi are completely different? Read More »
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Building Global Biodiversity Knowledge Through Open Access Data
An open-access platform to enable the integration of European and Brazilian biodiversity research tools has been developed through an EU-funded programme. The EUBRAZILOPENBIO [...] project, which was completed earlier this year, will help promote cross-border innovation and the sharing of best practice in a vitally important field of research. Read More »
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Building Institutional Repositories For Global Research Commons
An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution (INASP, 2013). According to ROAR, there are 3,340 and as per OpenDOAR, there are 2,255 institutional repositories in the world and out of which 87 are in agriculture, food and veterinary (OpenDOAR, 2013). Read More »
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Building Local Skills To Support The Open Source iHRIS Software
Over 20 countries are implementing the open source iHRIS software to manage and plan their health workforce. CapacityPlus, along with other USAID projects led by IntraHealth International, is assisting several of these countries to install, customize, and roll out the human resources information systems (HRIS) software. Read More »
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Building Research Equipment with Free, Open-Source Hardware
Most experimental research projects are executed with a combination of purchased hardware equipment, which may be modified in the laboratory and custom single-built equipment fabricated inhouse. However, the computer software that helps design and execute experiments and analyze data has an additional source... Read More »
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Building The Next Internet, 250 Times Faster
Developers in 25 cities are getting a playdate with GENI, an ultra-fast broadband sandbox, with the goal of building apps that push beyond the limits of today's Net.
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Building Wireless Sensing Networks – Using Open Source Hardware
Over the last couple of days, I have been busy setting up a wireless sensor network as part of the preparations in readiness for a web controlled central heating and energy monitor system.
The various hardware modules are all open source designs – and I chose to use a mix and match approach to the system which was put together using hardware from a variety of vendors... Read More »
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