Simson Garfinkel 11.08.05 Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars’ gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of years past, the root of the Prius issue wasn’t a hardware problem — it was [...]
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Education predicts Economic Success?
From the Detroit Free Press Guest-commentary-College-degrees-key-economic-success-Obama-s-education-plan-will-increase-access It is fitting that President Barack Obama has chosen our state to highlight new education proposals from his State of the Union speech earlier this week. From world-class research universities to nationally recognized liberal arts colleges, Michigan is home to some of America’s best higher education institutions. Unfortunately, the cost [...]
16 Critical Software Practices (Excerpt US Navy)
COMPLETE ARTICLE AT http://www.spmn.com/16CSP.html 16 Critical Software Practices CD Online 16 CRITICAL SOFTWARE PRACTICESTM for Performance-based management PURPOSE PROJECT INTEGRITY 1. ADOPT CONTINUOUS PROGRAM RISK MANAGEMENT 2. ESTIMATE COST AND SCHEDULE EMPIRICALLY 3. USE METRICS TO MANAGE 4. TRACK EARNED VALUE 5. TRACK DEFECTS AGAINST QUALITY TARGETS 6. TREAT PEOPLE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE [...]
Nations Ranked by Education
Opinion: Are We Raising a Nation of Fat Stupidos? By Elliott Morss 12/23/10 – 05:08 PM EST Copied from TheStreet.com By Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D. The latest global results on reading, math and science achievements have just been reported by the OECD. These educational achievements of young people are probably a pretty good leading indicator [...]