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Connected, Automated Vehicle Makers Must Collaborate To Train Intelligent Transportation Systems Workforce

DETROIT - Connected and Automated Vehicle makers need to work together more collaboratively to identify and develop industry standards for job skills and future training to staff the workforce necessary to ensure Michigan’s leadership role in intelligent transportation systems, a new report contends. Workers related to CAV currently come from a diverse array of occupations,

By |2017-03-01T19:00:17-05:00March 1st, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, News|

Online Tech CEO – AWS Failure Provides Reality Check For Public Cloud Networks

ANN ARBOR - Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing internet access to roughly 40 percent of the U.S. market, crashed on Tuesday afternoon for about five hours, unplugging millions of business websites that serve tens of millions of clients. Online Tech CEO Yan Ness said chief information officers are still picking up the pieces today, and

By |2017-03-01T16:06:11-05:00March 1st, 2017|Guest Columns, News|

What Video Gamers Can Teach Us About Customer Engagement

ANN ARBOR - Customer engagement is one of those buzzwords that's often talked about, difficult to define and even harder to measure. But it's critical to figure out for makers of video games, who operate in a noisy, crowded and competitive industry. Researchers at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business obtained player data

By |2017-02-23T21:29:12-05:00February 23rd, 2017|News|

U-M Tops Public Universities For Fulbrights For 12th Year In A Row

ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan students received 21 Fulbright grants for the 2016-17 academic year - the most of any public university in the nation for the 12th year in a row, the U.S. State Department announced. The grants - one of the U.S. government's most prestigious awards - fund the students' research or

By |2017-02-21T18:50:33-05:00February 21st, 2017|News|

How An Ice Age Paradox Could Contribute To Rapidly Rising Sea Levels

ANN ARBOR - New findings from the University of Michigan explain an Ice Age paradox and add to the mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most models predict. The study, published in Nature, shows how small spikes in the temperature of the ocean, rather than the air, likely drove the rapid

By |2017-02-17T10:36:53-05:00February 17th, 2017|News|

Automation Alley Report: Manufacturing Industry In U.S. Rapidly Moving To Embrace Industry 4.0

DETROIT - The manufacturing industry in America is moving rapidly to embrace technology as a critical part of its processes and plans to make new technological investments in 2017, but barriers to Industry 4.0 adoption still exist, according to Automation Alley’s 2017 Technology Industry Report, released Monday. Industry 4.0, also known as the fourth industrial

By |2017-02-13T14:44:40-05:00February 13th, 2017|Featured, News|

Automation Alley Technology Industry Report Monday At Detroit Institute Of Arts

TROY - Automation Alley is set to debut the findings of its 2017 Technology Industry Report Feb. 13 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The event, Automation Alley’s 2017 Technology Industry Outlook, will also include technology demonstrations and a panel discussion centered around Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, which is the convergence of

By |2017-02-10T07:17:12-05:00February 10th, 2017|News|

Lakeland Health First Hospital In State To Access Patient Immunization Records At Michigan Care Improvement Registry

GRAND RAPIDS – Lakeland Health System is the first hospital organization in Michigan to query patient immunization records held within the Michigan Care Improvement Registry directly from their internal electronic medical record. In 1996, the Michigan Legislature established a “childhood immunization registry” to be used as a comprehensive central repository for all children’s immunization records

By |2017-02-09T21:55:30-05:00February 9th, 2017|Life Sciences, News|

Nexteer Automotive President Keynotes Saginaw Future 25th Annual Awards Luncheon

SAGINAW - Saginaw Future Inc. will be celebrating its 25th Annual Awards Luncheon featuring Nexteer Automotive Mike Richardson who leads a highly skilled team of over 13,000 people and oversees 24 manufacturing facilities, five regional engineering centers and 11 customer service centers across the globe. The Saginaw Future 25TH ANNUAL AWARDS Luncheon will be held

By |2017-02-09T17:35:16-05:00February 9th, 2017|News|

Announcing: ITInTheD Ann Arbor Chapter, Events Starting In March

ANN ARBOR - In the long history of ITinTHED, dating all the way back to our first events in 2001, we can, unfortunately, count on one hand the number of events that we’ve done in Ann Arbor.  It’s not that we don’t like Ann Arbor…we do…it’s just that we don’t have as many contacts out

By |2017-02-07T21:02:31-05:00February 7th, 2017|IT in the D, News|