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6-21-02 Bryan William Jones Steve Jobs, during the introduction of the Xserve, specifically mentioned the bioscience market as one of the areas Apple is now focusing on. Despite the current economic downturn in the biotech market, many folks are talking up bioscience as the next big growth market for the coming decade, and the payoffs …

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5-17-02 Bryan William Jones So, a lot has happened since the last update for the scitech markets with the biggest two news items being the announcement that Matlab will be coming back to the Macintosh on OS X and the release of the Xserve from Apple. As for Matlab, this has to be one of …

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3-29-02 Bryan William Jones I have been an avid user of iTunes since it was released, but after having spent a bit of time with an iPod, I have a few thoughts and ideas on how to improve the iPod for use in an academic or science setting. Much has already been written about the …

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As March begins, we thought we would keep everyone apprised of updates in the Scientia et Macintosh world including applications and news items. For those users of GIS (geographic informations systems) software, there has for some time been available GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System). GRASS is an open-source GIS environment that provides raster, topological …

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We go into 2002 finding digital imaging in science and engineering an exploding field of study that is constantly evolving with the number of applications growing exponentially. Scientists exploring everything from the physics of the actual capture of the image to methods of encoding, transmitting, storage, manipulation and interpretation of the data contained in the …

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