Alex Daley, an academic relations manager from Microsoft, talked about the MSDNAA, being a student ambassador, the 2005 Imagine Cup, and some of Microsoft's upcoming products as part of an MCS event Dec. 9.
The Triangle: You came to Drexel as a student in 1977, you worked in industry, can you go through your career from when you started your undergraduate studies? Randy Kaplan: Well I was here for a 5-year program, I majored in mathematics; at the time I was here there was no computer science major or information science major.
A few years ago, Bill Gates started what could be a trend that will shape the future. No, it is not the weekly ritual of patching your operating system. Gates turned his Media, Washington home into a fully automated palace. The house interacts with its inhabitants, turning on and off lights and playing their favorite music as they move about.
The Mozilla Open-Source Software Project (www.mozilla.org) made available version 1.0 of its open-source mail client, Thunderbird (www.getthunderbird.com) Dec. 7. Although paid significantly less media attention than Firefox (www.getfirefox.com), Mozilla's increasingly successful web browser which reached 1.
When I began writing this column, I did so because I wanted people to know about all the cool stories I'd heard as a child reading stories about UFOs and the paranormal while understanding that they're only that: stories. That's a filter I never had as a child, and while I believe that being so interested in that paranormal mumbo-jumbo eventually made me a better person, I shudder to think how close I came to continuing down that path and becoming a UFO-chasing ninny.
Procter and Gamble is attempting to gain approval for a female sex patch dubbed Intrinsa. With the huge success of drugs like Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra to treat erectile dysfunction in men, several drug companies have been scrambling to introduce a female counterpart.
Every three minutes, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer patients often go through various surgeries, chemotherapy, and drug treatments and about 40,000 women a year die from the disease, making it one of the leading causes of death among women.
