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The Future Of Linux: Evolving Everywhere

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | July 15, 2013

Cemented as a cornerstone of IT, the open source OS presses on in the face of challenges to its ethos and technical prowess Read More »

The Future Of Our Open Source World

John Hagel and John Seely Brown | CNN | October 26, 2012

Open source shouldn't just stop at the world of software. In fact, more and more manufacturers are warming up to the cause. Read More »

The Heartbeat of Open Source Projects Can Be Heard with GitHub Data

Steven Max Patterson | Network World | June 27, 2016

GitHub released charts last week that tell a story about the heartbeat of a few open source, giving insights into activity, productivity and collaboration of software development. Why are these important? Enterprises increasingly define software development as a top priority to gain competitive advantage or defend against disruption. They often turn to open source software because it is fast and agile. Enterprise IT decision makers should understand GitHub because it is the backbone of most open source projects...

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The HITECH Era – A Patient-Centered Perspective

Robert M. Wachter, Michael Blum, Aaron Neinstein, and Mark Savage | Connecting Health Data | October 10, 2017

We appreciate the recent perspectives published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 and the positive impact that it and resulting health IT policies have had on U.S. health care.1,2 The perspectives highlighted the remarkable increase in adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) over the past eight years, thanks to the HITECH Act and to ONC’s and CMS’s implementation of it with major advice and help from the multi-stakeholder HIT Policy and Standards committees...

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The Importance of Collaboration in Higher Education

Harrison Kratz | OpenSource.com | November 9, 2011

One of the biggest concerns students have when it comes to online education is losing the experience of interacting with their peers and professors because collaboration is often so integral to success in their future workplaces. Read More »

The Internet? We Built That

Steven Johnson | New York Times | September 21, 2012

Like many of the bedrock technologies that have come to define the digital age, the Internet was created by — and continues to be shaped by — decentralized groups of scientists and programmers and hobbyists (and more than a few entrepreneurs) freely sharing the fruits of their intellectual labor with the entire world... Read More »

The Interview: Aneesh Chopra

Nancy Scola | The Atlantic | February 6, 2012

The outgoing chief technology officer of the United States talks SOPA, open government, and MacGyvering an innovations policy for the country.

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The Latest On Salvatore Iaconesi: The Continued Momentum Of Open-Sourcing Cancer Cures

Kate Torgovnick | TED Blog | November 7, 2012

“This is my brain cancer. It isn’t nice,” says Salvatore Iaconesi, the engineer, artist and TED Fellow who recently opened up his medical files to the world, crowdsourcing cures of the medical type as well as those for the soul. Read More »

The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Build Real-Time Operating System for Internet of Things Devices

Press Release | The Linux Foundation | February 17, 2016

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the Zephyr™ Project. This open source collaborative effort will unite leaders from across the industry to build a real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT). Early support for the Zephyr Project includes Intel Corporation (including its acquired business groups Altera Corporation and Wind River), NXP Semiconductors N.V. (including its recent merger with Freescale), Synopsys, Inc. and UbiquiOS Technology Limited. Zephyr Project is inviting others interested in this technology to participate.

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The Linux Foundation Issues Free E-Book on Open Source License Compliance Best Practices

Press Release | The Linux Foundation | November 16, 2016

The Linux Foundation today released a free e-book, Open Source Compliance in the Enterprise, that serves as a practical guide for organizations on how best to use open source code and participate in open source communities while complying with the spirit and the letter of open source licensing. Written by Ibrahim Haddad, Ph.D., vice president of R&D and the head of the open source group at Samsung Research America, the new e-book aims to improve understanding of issues related to the licensing, development, and reuse of open source software...

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The Long Haul For New PTSD/TBI Research Projects

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | August 12, 2013

President Obama has announced new research projects focused “on developing more effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat mental health conditions like TBI and PTSD.” Read More »

The Maker Movement Helps Transform Our Public Libraries

The small town of Bethlehem, New York purchased a 3D printer and started teaching classes at its public library recently—jumpstarting the community's knowledge of advanced manufacturing and building upon a new way of doing things in a world where physical bookstores are dissappearing. It's true. Public libraries are reinventing themselves. Today they are becoming less of a place that hosts physical books and more of a center where people collaborate, commune, and learn new things...

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The Math Of FOSS Freeloaders: Why Freeloaders Are Essential To FOSS Project Success

Stephen Walli | Outercurve Foundation | March 13, 2013

Concerns are raised every once in a while in the broader free and open source software community about freeloaders.  The attitude expressed is that if you're getting the benefit of FOSS, you should contribute.  Building a business on a FOSS project you don't own, whether you're providing a service or product around a FOSS project should in return garner some sort of quid pro quo.  In reality, freeloaders are desirable. Read More »

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing's All-Hands Meeting

Stephen Aylward | Kitware Blog | January 11, 2012

Several Kitwareans are attending the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing's (NA-MIC's) All-Hands Meeting in Salt Lake City. At this meeting, we are promoting Slicer 4.0.1, the open-source medical image analysis and visualization platform that we released with other NA-MIC developers last week. Read More »

The Need for Indoor Plumbing

Will Schroeder | Kitware Blog | November 12, 2010

when developing software through large-scale research programs, the current process is relatively ineffective and wasteful. Rather than creating usable tools for scientists and engineers, often what is created are shiny toys with little practical use. Instead, as one of our collaborators Russ Taylor at UNC so aptly put it, we could use a lot more basic "indoor plumbing" to complement our bleeding-edge zero-G toilets with the latest bells and whistles. Read More »