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Michael Cowley is executive director of the British Columbia

The ninth annual Lac Carling Congress

EHR study unveiledFEDERAL PRIVACY COMMISSIONER Jennifer Stoddart announced that her office has awarded $49,600 grant under its Contributions Program to the Universities of Alberta...

Michael Cowley is executive director of the British Columbia

The first CGR e-awards program, designed to celebrate inter-jurisdictional achievements in electronic service delivery, identified a large handful of first class projects

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief Opteron server designer, Andy Bechtolsheim, heartily endorsed Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s current single-core and future dual-core chips as the future of Sun's volume computing business in a speech before attendees at Sun's Research and Education 2005 conference Wednesday, as he prepares to overhaul Sun's current designs featuring the chip. Forthcoming servers based on AMD's chip will outperform Intel Corp.'s Xeon server processor in both clusters of two-way servers and larger multiprocessor servers, Bechtolsheim said. He showed the audience a number of benchmark results that compared Sun's Opteron servers favorably against Intel's Xeon and Itanium servers for a number of different computing tasks.

In this interview, Robert N. Charette, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium, addresses the role of the CIO and the corporate IT organization amid an atmosphere of increased corporate emphasis on risk management.

E-learning is a technology-enabled approach to education that is still in the process of maturing. Last December, at the Online Educa Conference in Berlin, several leading thinkers in the field of e-learning gathered to present their views. This article comprises excerpts from interviews with two of those speakers, centring on their views of the present status and likely future of e-learning.