SAN FRANCISCO - Tech companies, along with security experts, say President Obama should protect user data, putting them in direct competition with the country's top law enforcement officials that may want access to that data. Some of the technology industry's largest companies have applied pressure on President Obama over the issue of data encryption. A
LANSING - Gongwer News Service reported how each much each department and major budget area would get from the General Fund in the signed framework from the 2015-16 fiscal year General Fund. Agriculture and Rural Development: $43,073,600 Attorney General: $37,013,400 Budget Stabilization Fund: $95,000,000 Civil Rights: $12,949,700 Community Colleges: $131,110,800 Corrections: $1,903,948,400 Education: $74,898,700 Environmental
NEW YORK - At the finals of the 2015 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, St. Petersburg National Research University of IT, Mechanics and Optics placed first, the only competitor to solve all the problems to win the contest. Second place went to Moscow State University, followed by the University of Tokyo in third place. Two
SOUTHFIELD - Three teams from Hamtramck High School swept the top three spots Thursday in The Engineering Society of Detroit's Engineering SMArT Michigan competition, held at Lawrence Technological University. A total of 20 members of the top four finalist teams received $30,000 scholarship offers from Lawrence Technological University at the event. The winning team, "Energy
LANSING - The Michigan House Energy Policy Committee on Wednesday took testimony on a bill that would create a seven-member board to consider a project that would create transmission lines connecting the Upper and Lower Peninsulas in the state to solve the problem of the U.P. relying on out-of-state providers. The bill (HB 4575) would
DETROIT - Job growth in the Detroit metro area is moderately above the U.S. average through the first three months of 2015. On a year-ago basis, Detroit added jobs at a 2.4 percent rate in March, while the U.S. as a whole added jobs at a 2.2 percent rate, Comerica reported. A key support to
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LANSING - Fostering a positive perception of Michigan as a place of unparalleled innovation in design and the arts while increasing jobs in the state's creative industries are top priorities for the Michigan Film Office. Creative industries employment represents approximately 74,000 employees in 9,800 businesses, including advertising, publishing, design, film/audiovisual, broadcasting, architecture, cultural/heritage, art schools,
ANN ARBOR - MichBio, the state's Life Sciences trade association, has added five new openings to its job bank - all are in Michigan. Tetra Discovery Partners - Kalamazoo Tetra Discovery Partners are seeking an experienced synthetic organic chemist to participate in research projects involving the synthesis of PDE4 allosteric modulators for treating Alzheimers
HOUGHTON - Nina Mahmoudian has received the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Award, which provides $500,442 to help overcome the biggest limitation for autonomous vehicles - energy efficiency. The grants are given to early career researchers who excel in both research and education, both of which are important parts of Mahmoudian's Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems