LIVONIA ? The December meeting of ISACA Detroit will offer up two presentations: One called Cloud Computing Demystified and the other an Overview of Cyber Security Risks at the ERP Level. Pre Dinner Topic: Cloud Computing Demystified Juman Doleh Alomary CISA, CISM, CRISC, ISO27001 Lead Auditor After Dinner Topic: Overview of Key Cyber Security Risks
LANSING ? Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger's new plan to raise $1 billion for roads primarily through earmarking all taxes collected on gasoline to go toward roads immediately and predictably came under heavy attack from school and local government leaders because it puts funding for K-12 schools and local government revenue sharing at risk. Mr.
ANN ARBOR - In their annual November forecast of the Michigan economy, George Fulton and colleagues Joan Crary and Donald Grimes, University of Michigan economists,say the state will add more than 132,000 jobs over the next two years. All told, Michigan will have added nearly 463,000 jobs during the economic recovery from summer 2009 through
WASHINGTON DC - Lawmakers' efforts to overhaul some of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs were dealt a setback Tuesday when a reform bill failed to garner enough votes to proceed in the Senate. The USA Freedom Act would have curbed powers granted to the NSA under the Patriot Act -- including the NSA's
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan is teaming up with Google and LunaTech 3D to present a free ?Let?s Put Grand Rapids on the Map? seminar Dec. 9. The seminar will help business owners better utilize Google?s highly targeted free and paid tools in their online marketing. Also on the agenda will be
HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University?s award-winning Peace Corps Master?s International program is offering new degree options for students in two departments: computer science and electrical and computer engineering (ECE). The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science is also expanding its PCMI programs to include a Master of Geographic Information Science. The expanded programs will
WEST OLIVE - The Great Lakes Ag-Tech Business Incubator, a non-profit corporation that provides farmers and entrepreneurs hands-on support to commercialize farm their inventions, will host its grand opening December 1 at 10 a.m. Special guests include Congressman Bill Huizenga, Senate Majority Leader Elect Arlan Meekhof, Representative Roger Victory, and Representative Joseph Haveman, who will
GILLINGHAM, England - Delphi Automotive PLC will partner with Ottomatika, a company started by Carnegie Mellon University, to jointly develop technology that will help accelerate automated driving. Delphi, the company that first introduced automotive radar systems, will integrate its active safety technologies with Ottomatika?s automated driving software. The combination of the two creates a technology
MINNEAPOLIS - RedEye, which provides 3D printing and additive manufacturing services, has partnered with NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to 3D print 30 antenna array supports for the FORMOSAT-7 Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate satellite mission. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the COSMIC-2 mission marks the first time 3D printed parts will function
DETROIT - Over the past few years, big data has caught the attention of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a big way. Why? Because SMBs have learned that, like their larger counterparts, they, too, can use big data to cost effectively mine all the information collected about their customers, businesses or competitors. Now SMBs