Innovation

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Cloudius Systems, HSA Foundation And Valve Join Linux Foundation

Press Release | The Linux Foundation | December 4, 2013

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Cloudius Systems, HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation and Valve are joining the organization. Read More »

CloudOpen Keynote Q&A: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation

Jennifer Cloer | The Linux Foundation | August 2, 2012

OpenStack's Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29...Mafulli was generous to take time out of his busy schedule as Community Manager at OpenStack to share his ideas on what is an open cloud and what's new with his project. Read More »

Coding Sub-Zero

Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | January 29, 2013

Despite a lack of heating and a rather unreliable internet connection, spirits were high at NHS Hack Day, Oxford. Lis Evenstad reports. Read More »

CollabNet Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner

Press Release | AlwaysOn, CollabNet | July 24, 2012

CollabNet...today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley.
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Collaborative Innovation: Keynote Address From Todd Park

Staff Writer | YouTube | August 27, 2012

At the 2012 Collaborative Innovation summit on public prizes and challenges, Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, delivers the afternoon Keynote Address. Read More »

Collaborative Projects: Transforming The Way Software Is Built

Mike Woster | The Linux Foundation | July 8, 2013

I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. [...] Nothing had or has since compared with that rate of innovation: I was hooked on open source collaboration, and I’ve never looked back. Read More »

Colombia Adopts Mandatory Backdoor And Data Retention Mandates

Katitza Rodriguez | Electronic Frontier Foundation | December 17, 2012

It seems like only yesterday that the Colombian government misused United States’ aid to spy on political opponents and human rights activists. [...] This, and other various surveillance scandals, ultimately led to the dissolution of the Colombian intelligence agency. But despite this history of human rights abuses, the Colombian Ministry of Justice and Technology has issued a decree that will further undermine the privacy rights of law-abiding Colombians. Read More »

Coming Soon: Health Innovation That Matters

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | August 3, 2012

The [VA's] Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) Innovation Sandbox Cloud and the Georgia Institute of Technology's Interoperability and Integration Innovation Lab announced on June 26 they would collaborate to address interoperability issues, accelerate the development of integrated health IT solutions, test new products and help train the IT workforce needed to move the industry forward. Read More »

Commentary: 7 Challenges To Cost Control

Len Nichols | Government Health IT | August 22, 2013

[...] I argued that that the recent health care cost growth reduction is real, and that it could be maintained because incentive structures have the potential to link the self-interest of all major health system stakeholders with the social interest in cost growth containment, quality improvement, and better population health. Read More »

Commentary: Fitting Disease Management Pieces Together

Susan Philip | Government Health IT | July 8, 2013

Health reform is changing the landscape of a patient’s care and treatment, and with the increasing prevalence and rising costs of chronic and complex diseases in the United States, key stakeholders — including payers and providers — are now searching for better ways to manage these conditions. Read More »

Commentary: It’s Time For Congress To Take On Patent Trolls

Gary Shapiro | Nextgov | August 5, 2013

Innovation is the backbone of the American Dream. Our nation has always encouraged entrepreneurs to turn their inventive and problem-solving ideas into the successful enterprises that drive our economy and create jobs. [...] Read More »

Commentary: Time To Seize The Moment And Unlock The ‘Treasure Trove’ Of Federal Data

Steven VanRoekel | Washington Post | April 28, 2013

Occasionally, we publish blog posts, speech transcripts and other commentaries of interest to the Washington Business community. Here is an excerpt from a recent keynote address by Steven VanRoekel, the U.S. government’s chief information officer, to the Bethesda chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. Read More »

Commentary: Time To Seize The Moment And Unlock The ‘Treasure Trove’ Of Federal Data

Steven VanRoekel | Washington Post | April 28, 2013

Occasionally, we publish blog posts, speech transcripts and other commentaries of interest to the Washington Business community. Here is an excerpt from a recent keynote address by Steven VanRoekel, the U.S. government’s chief information officer, to the Bethesda chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. Read More »

Companies Making The Necessary Transition From Industrial To Service Robots

Frank Tobe | Singularity Hub | June 6, 2012

The robotics industry is on the cusp of a major transformation. Today’s factory robots are solitary precision instruments, mimicking the repertoire of capabilities of skilled craftsmen while repeating a handful of tasks thousands of times over. But future factory robots will likely have to be capable of thousands of tasks, performing each only several times, and they will work in collaboration with humans. Read More »

Comparing Open Source Medical Visualisation And Imaging Software

Rumela Roy | Linux For You | January 28, 2013

This article, aimed at doctors or those interested in writing open source healthcare applications, focuses on the two most significant open source software toolkits available for medical imaging processing and visualisation... Read More »