Amnesty International Report 2007
Amnesty International Report 2007. “This report documents human rights issues of concern to Amnesty International during 2006.”
Category «Knowledge Management»
Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review Now Online
“The Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review presents an assessment of the Nation’s progress toward increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities for all Americans, halfway through the first decade of the 21st century. For three decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has established and monitored national …
Report on Iran Safeguards Sent to IAEA Board, Security Council
Report on Iran Safeguards Sent to International Atomic Energy Agency Board, Security Council Staff Report, 23 May 2007: “IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has circulated his latest report to the upcoming meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the …
Google Study Identifies Malware on Ten Percent of Web Pages
Earthtimes reports that a recent “internal survey conducted by search engine giant Google has revealed that one in every 10 pages scanned by the company is infected with malicious software that can harm the users’ PC.” The Ghost In The Browser. Analysis of Web-based Malware, Niels Provos, Dean McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang and Nagendra …
Google Announces New Tag Line is "Search, Ads, and Apps"
CIO Today: “In the annual shareholders’ meeting at Google headquarters on Thursday, CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters that the search titan has changed its tagline and its target. The new tagline will be “Search, Ads, and Apps.” It’s that last word in the trio that might concern Microsoft.”
Scholar Calls for Computer Systems to Practice "Data Ecology"
Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, by Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Working Paper Number: RWP07-022, Submitted: 04/24/2007 [via Harvard Crimson, Working paper calls for search engines to delete Internet activity records] Abstract: “As humans we have the capacity to remember and to forget. For millennia remembering was hard, and forgetting …
Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology press release: “The report provides an overview of functional foodsfoods that are enhanced to provide health benefits beyond basic nutritionand looks at the potential to develop these foods through the application of modern biotechnology. After detailing some of the recent scientific advances that could lead to a variety of …
Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector
The Successful Use of Information from the Private Financial Sector – Salvador Hernandez, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, FBI, Before the House Committee on Financial Services, May 10, 2007: “The analysis of financial records generated by the private financial services sector provides law enforcement and the intelligence community real opportunities to proactively identify criminal …
Seventh Circuit Practitioner's Handbook Posted on Judicary Wiki
The Wiki of The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides Electronic Access to Seventh Circuit Case Information, Rules, Procedures and Opinions. This is the first public wiki launched by the federal judiciary. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the wiki project, and reported by the National Law Journal, “The …
Infrastructure 2007 – A Global Perspective
Infrastructure 2007 – A Global Perspective, Urban Land Institute (69 pages, PDF): “Today, more than ever before, the ability to build, maintain, and finance infrastructure has become a crisis for communities around the world. Infrastructure is the skeleton around which the city is built. Ranging from radial hub and spoke systems, new town centers, villages, …
TIME Profiles People Who Shape Our World
The People Who Shape Our World: “Here’s our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world.”
Newly Launched Encyclopedia of Life Will Be Online Reference Source for 1.8 million Species
Press release: “Many of the worlds leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have …
