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IBM to open its first innovation center in RP

21 Feb 2009 - 04:40 by Richard Tiu in News
MANILA, Philippines The Philippine unit of IBM will open its first Innovation Center in the country and the second in Asia at the UP Ayala Techno Park in Quezon City.Although the company refused ...

MSc in BioMedical Imaging (BMI)

18 Feb 2009 - 05:33 by Richard Tiu in News
Funding In the past three years, we have had several studentships, with EPSRC scholarships covering tuition fees and a maintenance grant of up to £12,400, and Ratiu Foundation scholarships for Romanian ...

P100M allocated to R&D center--Angara By Anna Valmero

13 Feb 2009 - 10:51 by Richard Tiu in News
MANILA, Philippines Senator Edgardo Angara said the plan to establish a local research and development institute similar to Taiwan s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is now in motion.Angara ...

MEMS accelerometers: A fast-track to design success? By Vanessa Knivett

13 Feb 2009 - 01:00 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
LONDON — Motion sensing, largely enabled by Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers, has taken more than its usual share of the headlines recently. Whilst not a rags to riches tale " accelerometers ...

Recession or not, Pinoys still spending for cell load

08 Feb 2009 - 15:10 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
DESPITE the challenging times, Filipinos continue to set aside funds for mobile phone load credits. Telecommunications will be one of the last to go. In fact, some people say maybe food is not actually ...

Japan's electronics giants Unplugged from Economist.com

06 Feb 2009 - 15:47 by Richard Tiu in News
TO SEE the problems facing Japan s electronics companies, pop into one of the huge gadget shops in Tokyo s Akihabara district, the consumer electronics capital of the world. Nine domestic firms make mobile ...

PNAS Paper Details Irreversible Climate Change

05 Feb 2009 - 16:37 by Richard Tiu in News
A paper posted today by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences spells out human induced climate changes that will be irreversible for as much as 1,000 years after greenhouse gas emissions stop ...

RP keeps lead as text capital in region By EMMIE V. ABADILLA

31 Jan 2009 - 05:31 by Richard Tiu in News
The Philippines remains as the text capital of Asia Pacific, with Filipinos sending 2.37 billion text messages or SMS (Short Messaging Service), of the total 6.37 billion texts sent over messaging firm ...

Danone Innovates to Help Feed the Poor by Carol Matlack

22 Jan 2009 - 05:42 by Richard Tiu in News
At an ultra modern research center in the Paris suburbs, scientists employed by French food group Danone search relentlessly for new products from immunity enhancing yogurt (BusinessWeek.com, 11/15/07 ...

Solar: First a Shakeout, Then a Boom by John Carey

22 Jan 2009 - 05:40 by Richard Tiu in News
The law of supply and demand hasn't just wreaked havoc on the oil markets. Solar power, one of the favored industries of the incoming Obama Administration, also has been on a roller coaster. As supplies ...

Stimulating the economy through R&D By Sen. Edgardo Angara

15 Jan 2009 - 08:23 by Richard Tiu in News
We are currently in the midst of a worldwide recession that threatens many economies, including ours. Already many of our countrymen abroad are getting laid off from their jobs, and locally many of our ...

Leading PC game designer will be presenting during the BPO Summit on December 2 and 3

17 Nov 2008 - 15:41 by Richard Tiu in Events
Chris Natsuume, co founder and creative director for Boomzap Entertainment (a leading developer of casual games), will be presenting in the game development track of the BPO Summit for both December 2 ...

Limited ‘Unlimited’ Cellular Packages by Ducky Paredes

17 Nov 2008 - 15:31 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
The Philippines is admittedly behind in a lot of things. Cell phone use is not one of them.A Wikipedia entry notes: The Philippines sends on the average 400 million text messages a day or approximately ...

First International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm'09)

11 Nov 2008 - 17:14 by Richard Tiu in Events
Welcome to GreenComm'09! The steadily rising energy cost and the need to reduce global CO2 emission to protect our environment are today's economical and ecological drivers for the emerging consideration ...

RP Navy eyes bomb disposal robot by Anna Valmero

06 Nov 2008 - 07:14 by Richard Tiu in News
PASIG City, Philippines The enhanced version of the Philippine made mechanical anti terrorist concept (MAC) bomb disposal robot will be designed for used in water, a Philippine Navy official told INQUIRER ...

Fast, Cheap and Sustainable: Ex-Pentagon Geek Plots Disaster Relief 2.0 By Nathan Hodge

17 Oct 2008 - 02:23 by Richard Tiu in News
Linton Wells used to be one of the Pentagon geeks in chief a prime mover in the military's embrace of information technology. Now, he wants to encourage the Defense Deparment to network with relief agencies ...

Microscope-On-a-Chip Is One Step Closer to the Tricorder By Dave Bullock

14 Oct 2008 - 05:03 by Richard Tiu in News
LOS ANGELES, California In the very near future, drawing blood may be obsolete. Instead, implants will be able to image your blood and monitor it constantly. This is because scientists at Caltech have ...

Cypress Semiconductor goes it alone without SunPower By Steve Johnson

14 Oct 2008 - 04:29 by Richard Tiu in News
T. J. Rodgers is at it again.The Cypress Semiconductor chief executive, who blew up his high school and college chemistry labs and has since become one of Silicon Valley's most colorful characters, stunned ...

How the Philippines Can Be a Solar Power by Dennis Posadas

12 Oct 2008 - 04:09 by Richard Tiu in News
The solar power industry these days is a mix of large and small companies pushing their own technologies. The playing field is still wide open for competing solar panel technologies. Eventually, the market ...

Angara’s advocacy by Ducky Paredes, Malaya Column

02 Oct 2008 - 06:56 by Richard Tiu in News
Senator Edgardo J. Angara, who has served the longest of the post Edsa senators, is defined more by his advocacies than his politics. He is on his last term and may be retiring from national politics when ...

Tuna Congress 2008 08 Sept 02

29 Sep 2008 - 15:51 by Richard Tiu in Events
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Experts advise RP tuna stakeholders to diversify into aquaculture By Bong Garcia Jr.

27 Sep 2008 - 06:19 by Richard Tiu in News
ZAMBOANGA CITY Aquaculture experts said the tuna industry in General Santos City should take advantage of opportunities in aquaculture production in the face of dwindling tuna stocks across the world s ...

A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft by Daniel Lyons

25 Sep 2008 - 07:47 by Richard Tiu in News
Last year I was meeting with the CEO of a PC company who offered to give me a demo of his company's gorgeous new top of the line notebook, a machine that cost several thousand dollars and came loaded ...

Water Infrastructure: A Dire Need

24 Sep 2008 - 11:23 by Richard Tiu in News
Five years ago, when Abigail #8217;s family moved to a subdivision in Montalban, one of the things they enjoyed the most at their new house was the splurge of strong water coming out of the faucet. Developed ...

Nvidia Chip Speeds Up Imaging for Industrial Use By ASHLEE VANCE

24 Sep 2008 - 06:58 by Richard Tiu in News
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Figuring out the best way to transform a frozen pizza into a perfectly warmed pie, gooey on top and crispy on the bottom, is as much a computer problem as a work of culinary art.General ...

Angara seeks more budget for S&T, R&D

22 Sep 2008 - 02:36 by Richard Tiu in News
In the 2009 General Appropriations Act (GAA) Angara seeks more budget for S T, R D Sen. Edgardo J. Angara today pushes for higher budget for Science and Technology especially on research and development ...

Synovate survey finds 81% of population are text junkies spacer By EMMIE V. ABADILLA

22 Sep 2008 - 02:34 by Richard Tiu in News
Most Filipinos, 81 percent of Filipinos between ages 15 to 64, are text junkies, using Short Messaging Service (SMS) to communicate with others, according to a Synovate s Media Atlas study which surveyed ...

Inquirer.net: RP: From texting capital to leader in (Inter)networking

20 Sep 2008 - 06:22 by Richard Tiu in News
MANILA, Philippines Yup, we socialize to the max. The Philippines not only has the reputation as the texting capital of the world, with one billion text messages sent daily, but it also has the highest ...

Seventh-grader shines with solar cell research By Christina Lent

19 Sep 2008 - 02:47 by Richard Tiu in News
William Yuan s bright idea to create a new, more efficient solar cell earned him top honors as Oregon s only 2008 Davidson Fellow. As part of the honor, the 12 year old Bethany boy will be flown to Washington ...

Medical Design: U.S. patient-monitoring equipment worth $8.6 billion by 2013

17 Sep 2008 - 12:35 by Richard Tiu in News
The U.S. market for patient monitoring devices, accessories, and consumables was worth nearly $6.2 billion in 2007, according to a research report from BCC Research, Wellesly, Mass., ( bccresearch ...

From Prof. Nilo T. Bugtai to Ms. Cat Ramos

17 Sep 2008 - 04:15 by Richard Tiu in Events
Dear Cat, Greetings! I would like to invite you and your staff to attend the 1st Asean Unversity Network/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network Regional Conference in Manufacturing Engineering ...

BBC NEWS: EU launches new hi-tech institute

16 Sep 2008 - 08:57 by Richard Tiu in News
The governing board of a new European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has held its inaugural meeting in the Hungarian capital Budapest. The European Union is providing initial funding of ...

A Genetically Engineered Swat by Olivia Judson

12 Sep 2008 - 03:33 by Richard Tiu in News
Dengue is caused by any of four related viruses. The disease can take a number of forms, from a mild sense of feeling below par, to dengue hemorrhagic fever, which can be lethal. Compared to diseases like ...

Building the Philippine Solar Valley BY DENNIS POSADAS

10 Sep 2008 - 03:37 by Richard Tiu in News
For the last three articles of this column, I have talked about the solar energy sector and what is happening around the world in solar. I would like to add that the high initial cost can, of course, be ...

DoST to honor 10 top scientists at Manila Hotel rites by MADEL R. SABATER

10 Sep 2008 - 03:32 by Richard Tiu in News
Ten top scholars of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) over the last 50 years will be awarded today at the historic landmark Manila Hotel as part of DoST s year long celebration of its golden ...

5 Careers with Bright Futures by Mark Huntsman, EarnMyDegree.com

03 Sep 2008 - 03:08 by Richard Tiu in News
Economists and pundits use the phrase "uncertain times" to talk about the health of the economy without getting too specific. But at the individual level, "uncertain times" means insecurity about your ...

West Stewart of Philippine Biosciences

26 Aug 2008 - 20:31 by Allan Espinosa in Visits
West Stewart of Philippine BioSciences (PhilBIO) visited the Ateneo Innovation Center to discuss the potential for Ateneo researchers to help in different aspects of their many biofuels and environmental ...

COMSTE Interim Report

09 Aug 2008 - 04:56 by Richard Tiu in Presentations
COMSTE Semiconductor and Electronics Panel Report Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: COMSTE Semiconductor and Electronics Panel Report

Algae as an alternative energy source.

28 Jun 2008 - 03:54 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
Found this cool blog which aggregates all related press releases on Algae as an alternative energy source. http://algaenews.blogspot.com/ Allan Espinosa

Social Innovation Conversations

28 Jun 2008 - 03:51 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
Social Innovation Conversations Stanford Discussions Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Day http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3568.html

Brain Drain, Brain Gain or Brain Circulation: Which Way?

28 Jun 2008 - 03:48 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
Brain Drain, Brain Gain or Brain Circulation: Which Way? By Theodore T. Hodge Thodge@theperspective.org The Perspective Atlanta, Georgia April 28, 2006 Africans have come to the New World (the Americas ...

Innovation Forum Invite

28 Jun 2008 - 03:47 by Richard Tiu in Discussion
From: http://www.ayalatbi.org/IF/2008 04 Marcelo.html

Using soy bean oil to replace transformer fluid/coolant

06 Jun 2008 - 04:12 by Gregory Tangonan in Discussion
Saw a report on Nightly Business Report on using soybean oil in electrical transformers. Works just as fine, in fact it has a longer life when it interacts with paper in the transformer. They say it is ...

Kape at Teknolohiya presentation

03 Jun 2008 - 07:42 by Allan Espinosa in Events
Director GregTangonan presented recent research and development projects and an overview of the Ateneo Innovation Center at the UP Ayala Kape at Teknolohiya last May 22 2008. Here are the slides of the ...

The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes

02 Jun 2008 - 07:23 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
The link below shows of a young girl lecturing the UN on climate change and hunger.

Apple Daydreaming: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices

24 May 2008 - 07:47 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
N. Wingfield, 2008 May 22, "Apply Daydreaming: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices," in Wall Street Journal , Online Available: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121140284684611795.html Predicting ...

Asia Clean Energy Forum 2008

23 May 2008 - 13:21 by Allan Espinosa in Events
Theme: Investing in Solutions that Address Climate Change and Energy Security. Date: 2 6 June 2008 Place: ADB Headquarters at 6 ADB Ave., Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines Google calendar ...

Airbus, Honeywell team on biofuel for airplanes

17 May 2008 - 01:02 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
Interesting developments from the airline industry. It looks like our own Dr. TessPerez from Environmental Science placed Ateneo in the right direction for her algae biofuel research. See related article ...

The Seeds of the Next Silicon Valley

15 May 2008 - 17:05 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
How Indian tech companies are helping to incubate startups From BusinessWeek: At the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Kharagpur, near Calcutta, a small team of engineers is beavering away ...

BBC debate on biofuels

15 May 2008 - 11:43 by Allan Espinosa in Podcasts
Summary: A UN food expert recently labelled biofuels a #8216;crime against humanity #8217;. They #8217;ve been seen as the root of the global food crisis, with increasing farming land being used to grow ...

PhilHealth pilots mobile- and RFID-based medical system

09 May 2008 - 22:11 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
Lawrence Casiraya on Inquirer.net wrote: The system runs on near field communications (NFC), a wireless technology that allows devices to send and receive data over a distance of about 10 centimeters. ...

Ateneo prof offers other biofuel source: Algae

09 May 2008 - 14:16 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
Dr. TessPerez of the Environmental Science Department was featured today in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She explained our university's cutting edge research on new energy sources. Original article ...

How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days

07 May 2008 - 02:12 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
A good example of idea to implementation. Once your team brainstormed something, assign it to one person and hack away! From http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051026/gabler 01.shtml Here's a crazy ...

H.P. Reports Big Advance in Memory Chip Design

04 May 2008 - 06:16 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
J. Markoff, 2008 May 01, H.P. Reports Big Advance in Memory Chip Design, Online Available: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/technology/01chip.html?partner rssnyt emc rss Hewlett Packard scientists ...

The trouble with Steve Jobs

04 May 2008 - 06:05 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
P. Elkind, 2008 Mar 05, The trouble with Steve Jobs, in Fortune, Online Available: http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind jobs.fortune/ Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the ...

Nanoparticles could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline

04 May 2008 - 05:30 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
R.C. Johnson, 2008 Feb 25, "Nanoparticles could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline," in EETimes, Online Available: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID 206801669 PORTLAND, Ore. The ...

Intellectual property plays key role in nations

04 May 2008 - 03:28 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
A. Ventanilla, 2008 April 24, Intellectual property plays key role in nations wealth creation, in nop BusinessWorld, Online Available: http://www.itmatters.com.ph/features.php?id 042408a Intellectual ...

Race Is On to Advance Software for Chips

04 May 2008 - 03:16 by Undergraduate Student Assistant in News
J. Markoff, 2008 April 30, Race Is On to Advance Software for Chips, in NYTimes, Online Available: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/technology/30lab.html? r 1 oref slogin PALO ALTO, Calif. In the ...

Academic Content Management Solutions

For open access to scientific articles/ theses, here are some models we can explore: Cornell http://arxiv.org/ The arXiv site is an e print service in the fields of physics, mathematics ...

Filipinos father open source electronic health record system

02 May 2008 - 13:01 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
Congratulations to Dr. Alvin Marcelo and team! By Erwin Oliva from Inquirer.net original article found in http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080502 134079/Filipinos father open ...

Interesting technologies: MEMS could take off (installment 2)

12 Apr 2008 - 02:35 by Gregory Tangonan in Discussion
These articles focus on a growing industry. My own startup, Wireless MEMS Inc., is active in this space.Tthis is what we are working on here, during my break from academic life. The process is NOT very ...

Interesting technologies: installment 1

12 Apr 2008 - 02:35 by Gregory Tangonan in Discussion
As part of the Center's commitment to share the culture of innovation, here is the first of a series of cutting edge technolgy news from around the globe. We think that these are the key topics that are ...

An Alternative to Political Activism -- Studying

10 Mar 2008 - 00:35 by Allan Espinosa in Discussion
Featured 2008 March 10 in Malaya, Opinion. Posted online at http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar10/edducky.htm or http://www.duckyparedes.com/blogs/2008/03/10/an alternative to political activism studying/. ...
Comments: 2 - latest comment by AllanEspinosa - 10 Mar 2008 - 00:48

HP Labs takes first steps in reorg

08 Mar 2008 - 09:15 by Gregory Tangonan in Discussion
R. Meritt, 2008 Mar 6, "HP Labs takes first steps in reorg," in EETimes , Online Available: http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID 206902341 cid RSSfeed eetimes newsRSS PALO ALTO, Calif ...

Innovation Forum: Where VCs are placing their bets in 2008

08 Mar 2008 - 09:14 by Allan Espinosa in Events
Posted in http://www.up ayalatbi.org/IF2008 01 Sandejas.html.

Interlinks 4.0: Snapshots of Philippine Innovation

06 Mar 2008 - 18:32 by Allan Espinosa in News
Dennis Posadas, featured the upcoming Interlinks 4.0 in a 2008 March 4 article in BusinessWorld ITmatters. The article can be found in http://itmatters.com.ph/columns.php?id posadas 030408 A short quote ...

Invitation to Interlinks 4.0

27 Feb 2008 - 07:46 by Gregory Tangonan in Events
Hello from the Ateneo Innovation Center, On March 14, we are holding Interlinks 4.0, where the Ateneo Science and Engineering students will present their recent Research results. Undergrad students and ...

Biofuels deemed a greenhouse threat

12 Feb 2008 - 15:33 by Gregory Tangonan in Discussion
From the NY Times: Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these "green" fuels are taken into account, two studies ...
Comments: 1 - latest comment by AllanEspinosa - 12 Feb 2008 - 15:32

Welcome to the center

10 Feb 2008 - 18:08 by Allan Espinosa in General
Introducing the Ateneo Innovation Center

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