union with God” and agreed to participate in an experiment devised by neuroscientist Mario Beauregard of the University of Montreal. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, Beauregard seeks to pinpoint the brain areas that are active while the nuns recall the most powerful religious epiphany of their lives, a time they experienced a profound connection [...]

The number of American doctors using speech software to record and transcribe accounts of patient visits and treatments has more than tripled in the past three years to 150,000. The progress is striking. A few years ago, supraspinatus (a rotator cuff muscle) got translated as “fish banana.” Today, the software transcribes [...]

The same awe-inspiring Johannesburg venue, which witnessed Mandela’s first mass rally following his 1990 release, will stage tomorrow’s Opening Match, the first of 64 games. In one sense, it is familiar territory for the South Africa coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, as he prepares to lead a team at his sixth FIFA World Cup, which is [...]

Russell A. Poldrack is the director of the Imaging Research Center and professor of psychology and neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin.
As a busy researcher who owns an iPhone, iPad, and several computers, I often find it very difficult to practice what I preach when it comes to the dangers of multitasking (though [...]

This lack of clear overarching structure can result in information confusion, duplication and internal competitive behaviors. Given the many organizational structure models different companies employ - flat, matrix, lattice, team, network, virtual and the hierarchical bureaucracy most people immediately associate with ‘business’ - the skeleton types analogy is very broad. We may be [...]

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will be held Sept 19-23rd in San Francisco.
Also this year, JavaOne and Oracle Develop will be held Sep 19-23d in San Francisco.
How can that be?
Simple. Oracle has acquired the city of San Francisco.
OK, not all of it. But an awful lot of it.
And it didn’t actually acquire the city of San [...]

Like previous versions of Fedora as well as version 10.04 of Ubuntu, Fedora 13 primarily uses graphics drivers with kernel-based mode setting (KMS). In some respects, Goddard once again takes the lead in terms of KMS support, as Fedora supports Intel and NVIDIA graphics chips via the current versions of X.org’s “intel” and “nouveau” graphics [...]

Here is a challenge that takes you away from those repetitive boring type of queries that you write over and over again, several times a day. All of us, the database people, are familiar with thinking in set based manner as well as row by row style. Here is something that is [...]

User: Can you help me fix this computer problem?
You: No, you’re a Squatter.
I’m not talking about a $5,000-a-day-hooker-and-blow* kind of habit.
Hey, that old dog can learn new tricks…I’ll be damned
You: Click the Start button
Squatter: What’s a Clark button?
You: The Start button
Squatter: Where do I type Clark?
You: It’s a button. You click [...]

Year 2010 Valentine Day February 14, Job Anniversary Day February 16 , 6 years’ sexy shot,companionship
It is not a friendship or marriage or job, but, it is something fabulous and greater paradigm shift than anybody can enjoy in life.
Passing 6 six years with 6 Ws. Weather,Wealth,Wine,Women, Water,World. I got all during those last six years [...]

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” - Albert Einstein
“No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for.” - [...]

When I was a college professor I used to tell my students that “there are no stupid questions”, but that was 25 years ago, back when entry into the computer room was closely guarded.  Back then, Geekdom had “barriers to entry“, and only those people who had studied for years [...]

Another gray, rainy Sunday. I followed my mother out to the bus stop. She handed me the small black umbrella and put her own [...]

It was late, very late, chilling too. I was awake till 4 AM to finish a review report regarding a business deal. Thanks to the power cut schedule, for this abnormal nocturnal routine. I was about to sleep, yawning, I opened the window for some fresh air. Far across the countryside, I saw a small [...]