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Information Today June 24, 2010 Theresa Cramer |
Hyper-Local News Opens Up Are you tired of reading the same old Associated Press reports in your local newspaper? ? OpenPlans and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are teaming up to solve just that problem, through a new project called OpenBlock. |
CIO April 1, 2004 |
Web Technology Released as Freeware - This Date in IT History April 30, 1993 Tim Berners-Lee, a physicist, convinces the CERN research lab in Switzerland to declare on this day that the Web technology and program code should be in the public domain, meaning that anyone could use and improve it. |
Information Today October 20, 2011 |
New Report on Assessing Community Information Needs A new paper, "Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide," proposes four guideposts and nine strategies for communities to assess and build a healthy information environment. |
InternetNews August 23, 2010 |
Microsoft-Backed Open Source Group Talks Plans The CodePlex Foundation describes the role it can play in nurturing open source projects, and its relationship with Microsoft. |
Information Today May 12, 2015 |
CERN and U.S. Strengthen Partnership CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) made an agreement with the U.S. to renew their collaboration in particle physics and advanced computing. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Knight Foundation Sinks $1.2 Million Into PowerMoves For Miami Diversity Push Last week, the Knight Foundation gifted $1.2 million to Code2040, an organization committed to placing black and Latino students at top tech companies. |
InternetNews April 16, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Father of the Internet Wins Millennium Award Sir Tim Berners-Lee takes home the first-ever prize from a Finnish organization, and a million bucks, for his creation of the World Wide Web. |
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Otis Port |
Timothy J. Berners-Lee: Spinning The World's Web As head of the World Wide Web Consortium, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Berners-Lee is coordinating a global team bent on hatching the Semantic Web. |
InternetNews September 10, 2009 |
Microsoft Will Fund Open Source Foundation The CodePlex Foundation aims to build on Microsoft's existing Codeplex site. |
Information Today September 9, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
The Knight Foundation Welcomes Ideas to Strengthen Libraries' Roles in the Digital Age People from around the country can submit entries for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's latest Knight News Challenge: "How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?" |
InternetNews September 26, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Protons in the Hood Hadron Collider becomes a cultural icon among the young on YouTube. |
InternetNews December 31, 2003 Clint Boulton |
That Would Be Sir Tim (Berners-Lee) Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth. |
Chemistry World November 26, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Gates Foundation champions open access The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, US, has adopted a new policy that requires free, unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research that the foundation funds |
InternetNews October 23, 2009 |
Creator of World Wide Web Holds Court Tim Berners-Lee explains what he thinks are the biggest threats to keeping the Web open and why he's still a bit leery of cloud computing. |
InternetNews January 10, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner |
Linux Foundation Expansion Continues in 2011 Nonprofit foundation adds Broadcom, Timesys and Protecode, bringing its total corporate membership to roughly 78 as the operating system gains traction. |
InternetNews March 9, 2010 |
Microsoft-Sponsored CodePlex Moves Ahead The non-profit open source foundation looks to show it's not just an extension of its main backer, Microsoft. |
AFP eWire April 20, 2010 |
2009 Saw Record Decline in Foundation Giving The recent economic crisis caused the more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations in the United States to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent -- by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jan/Feb 2013 Jennifer Norbut |
Building the Foundation As a pillar of education in the commercial real estate CCIM Institute has helped thousands of members advance their careers. In the early 1990s, the Institute formalized the Education Foundation of the CCIM Institute, which is now known as the CCIM Foundation. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 |
The Weight of the World The 7000-ton Atlas detector at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the centerpiece of the biggest particle physics experiment ever undertaken. |