All kinds of things are cooking here at the Techburgher. It’s time to see what didn’t make it on the grill earlier this week, and here we have our Friday sepcial of hot news nuggets ready for your enjoyment.
Jeff McGraw of The Callos Companies Nominated to Board of Directors of International Recruiting Network
Jeff McGraw, vice president for the Pennsylvania Region of The Callos Companies, has been nominated for a two-year term on the board of directors of NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network. NPA is a member-owned split placement network of independent recruiters on six continents. Officers and directors are elected by the membership; each director also owns and operates a member recruiting firm. Jeff will join other directors from around the world to provide leadership and direction to NPA.
i-Squared Announces a New Performance Measurement Tool for SharePoint
i-Squared Inc., a Pittsburgh based consultancy specializing in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) released a new performance measurement tool called the Collaboration Performance Report or “CPR Report” for SharePoint sites.
“SharePoint has two distinct design components, a Technical Architecture and an Information Architecture. Most SharePoint assessments focus on the technology but fail to measure the key Information Architecture factors critical to SharePoint’s success – leaving them very much in need of CPR” (pun intended).
“We’ve developed a methodology that analyizes the key (and often overlooked) Information Architecture components. We measure and rank success factors like, budget vs. objectives, adherence to strategy, cross-department governance, content structure, taxonomy and metadata design, and many other factors. The results are delivered in an Executive report we call the “CPR Report”, said Joyce Query, President of i-Squared.
Carnegie Mellon’s Manuela Veloso Wins Autonomous Agents Research Award
Manuela M. Veloso, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who studies how robots can learn, plan and work together to accomplish tasks, is the winner of the 2009 Autonomous Agents Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM/SIGART).
The award, presented annually in collaboration with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, recognizes researchers who are doing influential work in the area of autonomous agents — robots, software agents or any other system that can sense its environment and act on that information in pursuit of its own goals.
Veloso, who holds the Herbert A. Simon Chair in Computer Science, is known for her research in artificial intelligence and robotics, and her pioneering work on robot soccer, which has emerged as an important research tool for studying how autonomous agents can work cooperatively in complex, uncertain environments. She is president of the International RoboCup Federation, which sponsors annual world championships in robot soccer. She and her students have fielded RoboCup teams since 1997, and have been international champions several times.
