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Jeff Hawkins: Where Open Source And Machine Learning Meet Big Data

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | August 9, 2013

The Palm pioneer has turned to neuroscience and big data to create a path to truly intelligent machines -- a path open to the community's contributions Read More »

Jembi Combines Efforts With Safe Blood For Africa & CDC!

Press Release | Jembi Health Systems | June 6, 2013

Jembi is excited to announce a promising collaboration with Safe Blood for Africa and CDC towards the objectives of expanding the knowledge pool and ability to support an existing Open Source Blood Service Management tool (V2V). Read More »

John H. Jones

John H. Jones, is the CEO and founder of both LabLynx, Inc. (Founded in 2000) and the Laboratory Informatics Institute (Founded in 2006). Read More »

Johns Hopkins APL And Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Release Open Source Electronic Disease Surveillance Software

Press Release | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) , Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) | July 1, 2013

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open-source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings. Read More »

Joi Ito: Open-Source Hardware Is a No Brainer

Barb Darrow | GigaOM | January 11, 2012

Open-source hardware is on its way, and it will foster a new era of innovation, according to MIT Media Lab director Joichi “Joi” Ito. The emergence of freely available hardware designs and near-free components will unleash the same sort of technology innovation that open-source software kicked off a decade or so ago, Ito said Tuesday.

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Join the M Revolution

Luis Ibáñez | OpenSource.com | February 2, 2012

M is a multi-user, strongly imperative language designed to manipulate and control massive databases. It is used in the high availability, high reliability niche of the computer market—which includes banking and hospitals. It provides simple data abstractions, in which all data values are strings of characters, and all data can be structured as multiple dimensional arrays. M data structures are sparse, using strings of characters as subscripts. M is itself a language combined with a database engine

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Join The Movement : Open Source Drug Discovery

Priyank Trivedi | CoolAge | December 25, 2012

OSDD or Open Source Drug Discovery is a community of students, scientists, researchers, academicians, institutions, corporations and anyone who is committed to discovery of drugs in an open source mode. [...] Read More »

Jono Bacon's Top Open Source Conference Picks for 2017

Many of you reading this will be fans of open source who would love to get out and meet open source leaders, companies, and users at conferences. With most of us having to prioritize conferences either due to budgetary or family reasons (or both), knowing which events we should prioritize can be difficult. I have spent my career treading the boards from conference to conference all over the world, so I figured I would share some of the conferences that I would heartily recommend for 2017...

June 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Tobin Greensweig

Michael Downey | OpenMRS | June 11, 2013

Each month we select one of our many impressive volunteer OpenMRS contributors and highlight them here, to share their experiences and help others learn more about the others involved in the project. In June, community manager Michael Downey chats with Tobin Greensweig and learn more about his OpenMRS contributions and his work and studies in the Middle East. Read More »

Justice Department Websites May Go Open Source

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | September 10, 2013

The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show. Read More »

Keeping Bread Fresh With POWERLINK And Linux

Staff Writer | B&R | July 11, 2013

De la Ballina specializes in packaging industrially produced baked goods. When developing its latest generation of machines, the French company decided to implement an integrated automation solution. POWERLINK was the only network protocol that was up to the task. [...] Read More »

Kendall: DoD 'May End Up With A VistA Derivative'

Molly Bernhart Walker | GovernmentHealthIT | May 23, 2013

As the Defense Department seeks a commercial solution for its electronic health record, it may end up with something akin to the Veterans Affairs Department's Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA, after all. Read More »

Kenya's Ushahidi Brings Tech Help Where It's Needed Most

Arik Hesseldahl | Tech Investor News | April 16, 2013

“If it works in Africa it will work anywhere.” It’s something occasionally said about the mobile market on the continent. It’s something that Juliana Rotich has lived as the head of Ushahidi, a non-profit tech organization born during the chaos of post-election violence in Kenya... Read More »

Kenyan Ushahidi Co-Founder Wins Award For Outstanding Social Commitment

Makumi Mercy | HumanIPO | July 18, 2013

Juliana Rotich, Ushahidi co-founder and managing director, has been honoured with with an Impact Award at the DLDwomen 2013 conference in Munich. Read More »

Kenya’s Ushahidi Brings Tech Help Where It’s Needed Most

Arik Hesseldahl | All Things Digital | April 16, 2013

“If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.” It’s something that’s occasionally said about the mobile market on the continent. And it’s something that Juliana Rotich has lived as the head of Ushahidi... Read More »