Alberta's Athabasca University, a pioneer in online interactive education, has announced what it describes as Canada's first fully interactive, online MBA program for IT Management.
Future archeologists may decode the zeros and ones embedded in the digital layers of the Internet to get a picture of the Information Age, much as 19th century British Assyriologist Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform to unravel the mysteries of the Bronze Age. Since July 1997, a team of five research scientists at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., have been developing a new kind of global, distributed computer memory that might make the task of those archeologists a whole lot easier than Sir Henry's.
Workplace change represents the biggest leadership challenge for Canadian businesses, according to a recent study of human resource professionals. The Aon Human Resource Trends Survey in Canada looked at the abilities of Canadian business leaders to lead, and found that one-third of survey respondents identified the ability to manage change as leaders
A recent survey of network administrators and help desk personnel shows that lots of people are pummeling their computers when the $#@%$ things don't work right. In the online survey, conducted by network analysis and reporting-tool vendor Concord Communications Inc., 83 percent of 150 respondents reported witnessing such attacks.