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NEW FEDERAL CTO TO TACKLE SECURITY, PRODUCTIVITY

COGNOS ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT NEW INVESTMENT IN BI

SGI ORIGIN 3800 POWERS SSI SUPERCOMPUTER

Features

• Analysis & Commentary
  
  

  NEW FEDERAL CTO TO TACKLE SECURITY, PRODUCTIVITY
  The federal government's new CTO, Norman Lorentz, decided to return to the federal government on September 11 as he stood in Reagan National Airport in Washington when the Pentagon was attacked by a hijacked airliner.

• Leading Edge R&D
  
  

  ATOM-SIZED PC CHIPS A LOT CLOSER
  Hewlett-Packard Co and University of California scientists have patented a process they said would eventually help turn out powerful computers that fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.

  COGNOS ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT NEW INVESTMENT IN BI
  Cognos, a leading global provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced a pledge of more than C$1 million over five years to Carleton University, one of North America's top centers of excellence in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research.

  SOFTWARE DETECTS POSSIBLE CHEATING STUDENTS
  A software program designed by Georgia Tech professors to detect cheating in students' computer programming homework turned up 186 possible violators, school officials say.

  FAR-REACHING INFORMATICS AND TOXICOGENOMICS COLLABORATION
  InforMax Inc, a leading global provider of bioinformatics solutions, and TissueInformatics.Inc, an innovative provider of imaging and image analysis solutions for pre-clinical and clinical pathology, announced a significant scientific and business collaboration to integrate quantitative tissue data with genomic data.

  WELL QUALITY: SECRET OF THE GOOD OIL
  To meet rising demand from oil companies for more efficient wells, CSIRO scientists are developing an advanced analysis and design tool to handle the delicate task of well completions and workover operations.

  SGI ORIGIN 3800 POWERS SSI SUPERCOMPUTER
  SGI and Computer Sciences Corporation announced general access to the world's largest production single-system-image (SSI) supercomputer powered by an SGI Origin 3800 system with 512 processors. This system is immediately available for general-purpose, commercial, industrial and government use on a pay-per-use basis within the CSC portal.

• Business & Money Trail
  
  

  WORLDWIDE BIOINFORMATICS MARKET EXPECTED TO REACH $1.7B
  The worldwide market for bioinformatics is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2006, driven by bioinformatic technologies that decrease the time and money required for drug discovery and development.

  EMC HELPS SEARS LINK BUSINESS DECISIONS TO CUSTOMERS
  EMC Corporation announced that Sears, Roebuck and Co is implementing 95 new terabytes of EMC networked information storage, as well as open management software and global services, in a customer-intelligence initiative aimed at improving customer satisfaction and the performance of 2,500 stores nationwide.

  NCR EARNINGS FALL AS DATA WAREHOUSING REVENUE FALLS
  NCR, which makes the data warehousing equipment used to handle large databases, and computer systems, said that excluding charges, earnings fell to $72 million, or 73 cents per share, down from $105 million, or $1.05 per share in the year-ago quarter.

Top Of The News

• Computers & Processors
  Sun's Flagship Server Delivers Best Price Performance

• Applications
  Data Mining Summit to be Held in Washington, D.C.
  HDFC Bank Deploys Award-Winning CA Solution
  Lithia Motors Selects ADP as its Solutions Partner for CRM
  Oracle Announces Single System DW Benchmark
  Sand Technology Targets Large-Scale Unix Environments
  Xbox.com Selects digiMine for Web Site Analysis and DM

• Storage
  Legato NetWorker 6 Protecting 32 Terabyte Data Center
  Storage Management Software in '02 and Beyond
  TrueSAN Unveils Cloudbreak Storage Operating System

Short Takes

• On The Market
  Next Generation of CorVu's RapidScorecard Available

• Financial Watch
  SAP Portals/Compaq to Deliver Enterprise Portal Solution
  SAS Turns to Inxight to Go Multilingual
  Sybase Inks DW Deal in China with Nanjing Local Tax Bureau

• People & Positions
  Informatica Names Janice D. Chaffin to Board of Directors

Quote Of The Week

"Customers use about 35% of their total storage capacity. That is what will drive the need for SRM (Storage Resource Management)." -- George Symons, vice president of project management and development, Legato Systems

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