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Government Transition 2009 Wiki: “As Senators John McCain and Barack Obama forge their Presidential election strategies, a different kind of race is brewing: A race to put forth new ideas, lessons learned, and specific recommendations for managing the next administration by a wide array of agencies, trade groups and others with a vested interested in …
Cyber Security Tip ST05-018 – Understanding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP): “Because VoIP relies on your internet connection, it may be vulnerable to any threats and problems that face your computer. The technology is still new, so there is some controversy about the potential for attack, but VoIP could make your telephone vulnerable to viruses …
OIG-08-86 – Costs Incurred for Rejected Temporary Housing Sites (PDF, 31 pages) OIG-08-85 – The Science and Technology Directorate’s Processes for Selecting and Managing Research and Development Programs (PDF, 51 pages) New 09/03/2008 OIG-08-83 – The State of Utah’s Management of State Homeland Security Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2004 through 2006 (PDF, 24 pages)
News release: “Extending more than 50 years of supercomputing leadership, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that they have finalized their contract with IBM to build the world’s first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research. This leadership-class project, called Blue Waters, is …
News release: “A new report from the World Bank highlighting the potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for Sub-Saharan Africa was released today during the AFRICA CARBON FORUM in Dakar, Senegal. Sub-Saharan Africa currently has a dismal 1.4% share of the 3,700 projects in the UNFCCC pipeline, as of September 1. The report …
USP’s Drug Error Finder – Lookalike/Soundalike Drug Names: “As a service to healthcare practitioners, industry, consumers, and others, USP has developed a free tool for accessing drug names that have been identified with a medication error. USP’s Drug Error Finder allows a user to search more than 1,400 drugs involved in lookalike and/or soundalike errors. …
Catalyst Group – Beyond Red and Blue: Insights into the Design of Presidential Candidate Websites, August 6, 2008 – “The results of our research indicated that aesthetics play an important role in users evaluation of a candidates site, but that ease-of-use may ultimately carry the day as the quality that people value most.” See also …
DOJ OIG: Report of Investigation Regarding Allegations of Mishandling of Classified Documents by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, September 2, 2008. “In sum, our investigation concluded that Gonzales mishandled classified materials regarding two highly sensitive compartmented programs. We found that Gonzales took his classified handwritten notes home and stored them there for an indeterminate period of …
2010 Census: Census Bureau’s Decision to Continue with Handheld Computers for Address Canvassing Makes Planning and Testing Critical, GAO-08-936, July 31, 2008 Drug-Free Communities Support Program: Stronger Internal Controls and Other Actions Needed to Better Manage the Grant-Making Process, GAO-08-57, July 31, 2008
Follow up to September 1, 2008 posting, Google Launches New Beta Browser for Windows, Google Redefines Web Browser – Chrome Offers New Way To Surf Net, as Microsoft Beefs Up Internet Explorer, by Walter S. Mossberg, WSJ: “Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common scenarios, will make using the Web faster, easier …
The Final Frontier: The Integration of Banking and Commerce, Part 2: Risk and Return Using Efficient Portfolio Analysis, Alan K. Reichert, Larry D. Wall, and Hsin-Yu Liang, Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 2, 2008. “In the first part (in the previous issue of Economic Review) of this two-part study, the authors identified a number of …
ACLU news release: “A federal judge [U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York] has ordered the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to turn over three memos that authorized the extremely harsh treatment of prisoners in CIA custody or explain by October 3 why these memos can lawfully be withheld. The American Civil …
