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(Exemplar Global: Sydney, Australia) -- Join experts in the quality auditing profession to hear about trends in the workplace, learn practical tips of the trade, and earn low-cost continuing professional development credits—all from the comfort of your home or office. Exemplar Global has gathered…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Gas and electric service recovers after three years of declining customer satisfaction, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Household satisfaction with utilities is up 4.2 percent to a score of 74.9 on a 100-point scale. According to residential…
(Beamex: Atlanta, GA) -- Beamex announces the opening of attendee registration for Calibration Best Practices: Interactive Workshop, which will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 2–3, 2017, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The workshop will explore the latest insights, trends…
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Berkeley, CA) -- A team of scientists at Berkeley Lab has developed an unsupervised multiscale machine learning technique that can automatically and specifically capture biomedical events or concepts directly from raw data.
In many data-driven biomedical studies,…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The field of regenerative medicine encompasses a wide scope of innovative products including cell therapies, therapeutic tissue engineering products, human cell and tissue products, and certain combination products using such therapies. Examples include genetically-…
(PR Web: Washington, D.C.) -- In a move to further their goal of disability inclusion, User1st, a web accessibility company, will work with members of the nonprofit organization, Dreamscape Foundation. Staff members who possess some form of disability from the Dreamscape Foundation will assist…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Illuminating Statistical Analysis Using Scenarios and Simulations, by Jeffrey E. Kottemann (Wiley, 2017), presents the basic concepts of statistics and statistical inference using the dual mechanisms of scenarios and simulations. It features an integrated approach of…
(Ford Motor Co.: Dearborn, MI) -- As manufacturing continues to become greener, Ford Motor Co. is going further to shrink its environmental footprint by sharing even more leading sustainability practices with its suppliers around the globe.
The Partnership for A Cleaner Environment (PACE) is part…
(MIT Sloan School of Management: Cambridge, MA) -- At the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) held in Portland, Oregon, MIT Sloan professor Thomas W. Malone presented a new research paper highlighting the potential of web-based contests to address…
(New Electronics: Hawley Mill, England) -- One bit of digital information can now be successfully stored in an individual atom, according to a study published by the Center for Quantum Nanoscience, within the Korean Institute of Basic Science and the U.S. IBM Almaden Research Center. This…
(Accuride: Evansville, IN) -- Accuride Corp., a leading supplier of components to the North American and European commercial vehicle industries, has published its first book, Lean Management 50-50-20,which is now available on Amazon. The book demonstrates how Accuride successfully applied lean…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Retailers reverse course after two years of declining customer satisfaction, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Retail Trade is up 4.7 percent to a score of 78.3 on a 100-point scale, an all-time high for the sector.
The ACSI covers six retail…
The teams competing for the 2017 InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech have invented devices that aim to make our lives safer or more efficient.
The annual competition brings together student innovators from all academic backgrounds to foster creativity, invention and entrepreneurship.
More than 500…
(Grauling Research: Santa Rosa, CA) – Grauling Research has announced new vacuum-pump rebuilding service and remanufactured pump sales for thin-film coating companies, semiconductor, and industrial equipment manufacturers. The company offers pump rebuild services for a wide variety of vacuum pumps…
(American Quality Institute: San Jose, CA) -- Former astronaut and moonwalker Buzz Aldrin will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Lean & Six Sigma World Conference in Nashville, TN, on March 29–30, 2017, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel.
Buzz Aldrin was one of the first two humans to walk on…
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices.
In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a…
(Juran: Southington, CT) -- Management, consulting, and benchmarking firm Juran has launched a brand new website and branding package. Since joining the team as chief operations officer, Joseph M. DeFeo has made strides towards modernizing the organization’s image and digital offerings, and this…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering (for a fee) a limited number of seats for their 2017 examiner training course through its Baldrige Examiner Training Experience (BETE) program. BETE attendees learn the same methods and techniques used by examiners…
There’s a known rule-breaker among materials, and a new discovery by an international team of scientists adds more evidence to back up the metal’s nonconformist reputation. According to a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Citizen satisfaction with the federal government reached a four-year high at the end of 2016, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Three years of eroding citizen satisfaction culminated in an all-time low score in 2015, but over the course of a…
(CMS: Weatherford, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) today launched its Call for Papers for the 33rd annual Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC), July 17–21, 2017, to be held in Snowbird, UT. The eminent association for measurement professionals worldwide is once again…
(QualityLogic: Simi Valley, CA) -- QualityLogic, a leading developer of interoperability test tools for the smart grid industry, is introducing independent integration consulting and testing services to help implement pilots, demonstrations, and full deployments that involve smart grid…
(Silicon Designs: Kirkland, Washington) -- Silicon Designs, a 100-percent veteran-owned small business and leading industry expert in the design, development and manufacture of highly rugged industrial-grade MEMS capacitive accelerometer chips and modules, today announced the added versatility of…
Defining a spark: A spark is all about change. Sparks are people who recognize they don’t have to accept what’s given to them. They can do things differently to create the change they’d like to see. Their actions can directly shape their future and they can make things better.
A spark is also a…
(Speak With a Geek: San Francisco) -- Technical recruiter Speak With a Geek (SWAG) is using its voice in the industry to raise awareness about the unique challenges faced by women in technology. The Bay Area agency hopes to educate and provide a deeper analysis into the topic of a lack of female…
