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Kentucky Space, NanoRacks making microgravity research affordable

wayne@autography.net — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:44:04 PST

Jeffry Manber provides an update on NanoRacks work with Kentucky Space on innovative plan make microgravity research affordable. Kentucky Space will go to the International Space Station in March on the Shuttle.

Publishers and virtual currencies

wayne@autography.net — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:20:52 PST

The stand alone publishing business is a tough one. How can publishers take advantage of game economies?

Kentucky Space receives launch assignment from NASA

wayne@autography.net — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:32:29 PST

KySat-1 will be on the Glory mission set to launch in November 2010. Gov. Steve Beshear has announced that Kentucky Space has received the official launch assignment from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its first satellite, KySat-1...

Now for a completely different take on manufacturing

wayne@autography.net — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:30:22 PST

When an action as simple as tracing an object in the air can result in a manufactured piece of furniture, the wall separating virtual and physical reality becomes a little less relevant. Reality is not just augmented, but in a...

Atoms are the new bits - Open source manufacturing

wayne@autography.net — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:29:40 PST

Cisco wants your "billion dollar" idea

wayne@autography.net — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:53:27 PST

With $250,000 in prize money at stake, Cisco is hosting competition the I-Prize competition to find the next billion dollar idea for the company. Awards will be made in these categories: 1) the future of work, 2) the connected life,...

Student laptops boost standardized test scores?

wayne@autography.net — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:19:46 PST

While it is extremely hard to compare programs, there is some evidence that one-to-one student-laptop programs may boost standardized test scores.

FREE innovation seminar at EKU

wayne@autography.net — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:45:34 PST

Planet Eureka will be conducting a free innovation training program Feb 9 at EKU, according to the Innovation and Commercialization Center at the school. These programs are open to all entrepreneurs, managers, new product and multi-disciplinary teams, inventors and innovators...

Fix boring schools, not students who are bored

wayne@autography.net — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:31:25 PST

Offering a description of the site owner that says he is willful, unable to follow the rules and "should be seen in psychotherapy," this has to be one of the more interesting "about me" pages you'll ever read. Lisa Nielsen...

Growing Kentucky's future in Space

wayne@autography.net — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:32:01 PST

Pictured in two of the three images here is the 21 meter tracking antenna as viewed from the ground control room at the brand new Morehead State University Space Sciences Center yesterday. One of only a handful of undergraduate centers...