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HP Said to Dump Microsoft over Surface: WART is No Longer Welcome at Most OEMs

Charlie Demerjian | SemiAccurate | June 29, 2012

Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface? We were being too kind, their largest OEM, HP, just bailed. Read More »

IGSTK User Group Meeting

Andinet Enquobahrie | Kitware Blog | February 23, 2012

The sixth IGSTK user group meeting took place in San Diego, CA on Feburary 4, 2012 in conjunction with the SPIE Medical Imaging conference. The meeting was attended by participants from Princess Margaret Hospital, Polytechnic Institute of Milan, University of Bern, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Children’s National Medical Center, Arizona State University, and Kitware. Read More »

Improving Beijing’s Urban Transportation with Crowdsourced Mapping

Anahi Ayala Iacucci | Ushahidi | June 5, 2012

In February 2011, Ushahidi’s Patrick Meier launched a novel project with the World Bank in Beijing. The aim of the project was to see how the Ushahidi platform could be used by the municipal authorities in the city to address traffic and urban transport problems in the city.

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In Five Short Years, Apple's App Store Changed Everything

Dan Rowinski | ReadWrite | July 10, 2013

It was five years ago today that the way software was made, distributed and paid for fundamentally changed. Read More »

In Their Own Words: Unix Pioneers Remember The Good Times

Julie Sartain | InfoWorld | August 20, 2013

We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. Read More »

Indiana CTSI HUB Offers Open-Source Software to Accelerate Clinical and Translational Research

Staff | News Medical | February 20, 2012

At a time when medical research increasingly requires collaboration by large numbers of busy people, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute HUB offers a model for using advanced information technology to link scientists, health providers, community partners and others for the purpose of accelerating clinical and translational research.

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IP Is A Thought Crime: Joren De Wachter At TEDxLeuven

Staff Writer | TEDxTalks | June 6, 2013

Joren trained as a lawyer in both Belgium and England & Wales, and spent about ten years in private practice. Subsequently he moved in-house to work for the software industry. Read More »

iPad vs. Secondary-class LCD Monitors: It’s a Draw

Evan Godt | CMIO | July 16, 2012

When reviewing spinal emergency cases on MRI, increased mobility doesn’t have to come at the cost of reduced reader accuracy as no statistical difference was seen in a multi-reader comparison of diagnostic accuracy between the iPad and a DICOM calibrated secondary-class LCD monitor, according to a study published in the August issue of Academic Radiology. Read More »

Is Auto The Next Android?

Dave Gruber | Open Source Delivers | September 25, 2012

But the auto industry has a big challenge. While consumer electronics (CE), like smartphones, have development cycles  as short as three months, automotive IVI development cycles are commonly three years or more. This leaves the auto manufacturers  chasing the CE industry, constantly struggling to deliver and keep up.

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ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Research Literature

Richard H. Lathrop and Burkhard Rost | International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) | January 1, 2011

On behalf of the ISCB members, this public policy statement expresses strong support for open access, reuse, integration, and distillation of the publicly funded archival scientific and technical research literature, and for the infrastructure to achieve that goal.

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ITK v4 – Crowdsourcing Documentation

Luis Ibanez, Julien Jomier, and Charles Marion | Kitware Blog | November 2, 2011

The ITK community recently released the Beta version of its new ITKv4 effort. The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. Read More »

ITK v4 – Migration Guide

Luis Ibanez, Julien Jomier, and Charles Marion | Kitware Blog | October 27, 2011

The ITK community recently released the Beta version of its new ITKv4 effort. The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. 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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Kenya’s Ushahidi To Be Redesigned

Tefo Mohapi | HumanIPO | July 24, 2012

The process of redesigning Ushahidi platform, a mobile app enabling users to crowdsource crisis information, is currently on track. The new platform, Ushahidi v3, will be a complete redesign of Ushahidi’s core platform with the front-end set to be more mobile web-focused. Read More »

Kitware and NREL Collaborate Over Implementation of Software Process Support for the Radiance Project

Calvin Azuri | Green Technology World | January 12, 2012

Kitware, provider of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology solutions, announced that it will be collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), facility of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), for the deployment and delivery of software processes support for the Radiance (News - Alert) Project. Read More »