WARREN - Survivability Team Leader Heather Molitoris of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, has received the prestigious Louis Dellamonica Award for Outstanding U.S. Army Materiel Command Personnel of the Year Award for 2007. ?Heather was selected for her outstanding work using many different modeling and simulation [M&S] tools for developing
ANN ARBOR - Auto industry rescue plan or not, Michigan's economy will continue to be stuck in reverse until 2010, say University of Michigan economists. "The confluence of recession in the U.S. economy and the tenuous position of the domestic nameplate automakers is a troublesome gateway to the year ahead," said U-M's George Fulton. "Regardless
ANN ARBOR - Deadlines to enter two additional business-plan competitions hosted by groups other than Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest loom on Nov. 21, says GLEQ Executive Director Diane Durance. Both the Society of Automotive Engineers and the University of Michigan are hosting contests in December. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
TROY - Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said life sciences, and health care are both big business in Oakland County and growing rapidly. Patterson was a keynote speaker at the MichBio Expo in Novi. Patterson also talked about the importance of bailing out the Detroit Three automakers, and other changes afoot in the second
BIRMINGHAM - What's in a name? Well a million dollars for a Southeast Michigan Internet entrepreneur who paid seven figures to buy the domain name Vibrators.Com. Tom Nardone, founder of ShopInPrivate.Com, could barely afford the purchase, especially in these tough economic times. But there is something special in the combination of PriveCo's business strength and
LIVONIA - Michigan's now 16-year experiment with term limits is a major reason for divisive politics in the state and endangers its future, former Governor William Milliken said at a dinner in his honor. But he raised hopes that the election of Barack Obama as America's next president is a signal that the public is
ROYAL OAK - Software development company iwerk has recently completed an eCommerce project on the Ford Accessories website to handle online payment and shipping. The work was done by iwerk's Royal Oak office, and involved integrating several web services such as Paypal, Fedex and Avalara, to provide payment, shipping options, labels, and tax calculations. In
BRIGHTON - Pillar Technology haS released Verde, a tool that automates the characterization testing of all Java J2EE applications, recording JUnit tests dynamically at run time. The velocity of development teams using test-driven software development techniques improve by a significant margin when leveraging the automated capability of Verde, the company said in a press release.
BRIGHTON - Many organizations adopt Agile processes like Scrum and XP. They become effective at iterative and incremental delivery, and increase their software quality higher than it's ever been. Yet they fail to harness the new productivity to deliver anything of real business value. Come learn how Pillar Technology can deliver real business value at
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit is returning to Hockeytown again this year to celebrate the Red Wings' Stanley Cup championship and kick off the holiday season in style with a Holiday party not to be missed. On December 3, from 6-9 pm there also will be a personal appearance and book signing by