ANN ARBOR ? Google's decision to locate its Midwest corporate headquarters in Ann Arbor reaffirms the college town's claim to be a great place for technology companies to grow and prosper. That was the consensus of opinion among some Ann Arbor IT Zone members on July 11 who attended the annual summer barbecue at Spark
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor IT Zone President Diane Durance knows its always best to plan on holding the annual summer barbeque inside SPARK Central, the former IT Zone Launch Pad, because the weather always plays the role of spoiler. For the past couple of Julys, extreme heat and humidity made socializing outside uncomfortable. This
ANN ARBOR - Picometrix, an Ann Arbor-based subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc. and a member of the Ann Arbor IT Zone, supplied the imaging systems that NASA used to make sure the foam on the Discovery's fuel tank could handle the heat from reentry. Picometrix?s nondestructive evaluation of the foam, which can be up to
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor IT Zone member Pixel Velocity was granted a new patent on July 4 for a software process that could help create smarter, faster devices such as intelligent surveillance cameras. The fine print is the patent will make it easier to convert a software algorithm into hardware realization or as Pixel
ANN ARBOR - Don't miss the Classifieds, new in July and free for all Ann Arbor IT Zone members. You?ll find opportunities like these: Logic Solutions is seeking systems administrators with experience in LAN and WAN in a heterogeneous environment of Windows NT and UNIX. Hybra-Drive Systems (HDS) seeking a systems engineer well-versed in both
ANN ARBOR - The Ann Arbor IT Zone?s 21st Century Job Fund grant proposal is moving to the interview stage in August. Ours is one of the 179 proposals (out of the original 505 submitted in March) advancing to the next phase of the selection process. The jobs fund, administered by the Michigan Economic Development
ANN ARBOR - The Ann Arbor tech economy?s heating up ? so jump into the knowledge pool. Keep up with the exciting things happening in and around the Ann Arbor this fall. Think tech opportunities, jobs, and business growth! Google is coming ? and grant money. The 21st Century Job Fund grant recipients will be
ANN ARBOR ? We're offering charter advertising sponsorships for the new co branded Ann Arbor IT Zone/MItechnews.Com eNewsletter. Only half the regular advertising rate through Sept. 30. The package includes a 120 by 240 pixel ad that appears monthly in the eNewsletter and the same ad appearing 24/7 in the AnnArborITZone section of MItechnews.Com. The
ANN ARBOR ? Attorneys Margaret Dobrowitsky and David Hudyma of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione will share knowledge and insights gained through years of practice of applying the intellectual property protections of patent, trademark and copyright law to every day business situations at a July 28 breakfast hosted by the Ann Arbor IT Zone. This
ANN ARBOR - Linda Girard, the CEO of Pure Visibility and Peter Morville, president, Semantic Studios, on July 27 will explore the future present in mobile devices, search algorithms, ontologies, folksonomies, findable objects, ambient advertising, and the long tail of the sociosemantic web. At the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, the user experience