OpenStreetMap (OSM) has completed the bulk import of comprehensive street and highway data for the United States, months ahead of the project's original estimates. The massive data set originated with the US Census Bureau's public domain map database, and importing it required a dedicated upload process running around the clock since August 2007. The imported data will still require human editing and error-correction, but the completed task is a major milestone for the OSM project.

PatientOS is a free EMR system for physician offices and clinics. The system is designed to scale and evolve to be a fully fledged healthcare information system for hospitals.
Version 0.40 adds an HL7 laboratory result inbound interface (ORU^R01). A basic result viewer has been added to the chart.
PatientOS version 0.40 includes a demonstration web based Patient Portal. Patients can login and submit a progress form which is filed into their chart.
The patients chart includes a Flowsheet tab which displays the discrete details submitted via the Patient Portal. Basic communication orders can be created.

An email service has been added to allow the composition of text or HTML emails.

A Batch Scheduler has been created. Batch Jobs can be defined and executed at scheduled times.

If you BOINC, you can research cancer, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, fight AIDS, or support a myriad of other research efforts without lifting a finger. BOINC, pronounced boink, is the acronym for the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. More than 1 million people have joined the network around the world with more joining every day.

A dissertation is composed of two elements: the content and the form. The author is certainly the person best qualified to speak about the content. We, however, will focus on the form. We are going to see how to get a fine composition with low time expenditure using LaTeX.

Yesterday I speculated that the open source model in the software world is going to undermine the basic delivery system for higher education in the United States (and perhaps elsewhere). Today I want to consider what, exactly, a transformed system of education might look like.

Hewlett-Packard has launched the FOSSology Project, a tool for tracking and monitoring the use of free and open-source software within an IT environment.

Today the San Francisco Chronicle reported that over 45% of North American investment in green technology last year landed in California. Of the $3.95 billion invested, $1.79 billion went to firms in the Golden State. That is pretty incredible, given that California's population is roughly 10% of the U.S. and Canada. Can other places improve their fortunes and grab a larger piece of the somewhat finite investement pie?

A new game for Google's Linux-based Android platform uses WiFi, GPS, and phone-camera technology, along with Google maps, to create a first-person shooter game you can play "anytime, anywhere -- against real people," according to publisher W2Pi Entertainment.