Governing body approves $848,350 grant application for airport
Abilenes governing body on Monday approved an $848,350 grant application to the Federal Aviation Administration as part of a proposed taxi-way improvement at the municipal airport.

Stanford seeks to create new breed of engineer (San Francisco Chronicle)
Stanford is training a new type of engineer for a fast-changing world and James Plummer wants to get the word out that students neednt be a total techie to apply. "Were looking for kids who think of the world in terms of finding solutions to big

Hot Shot: Developer and entrepreneur Evan Prodromou (Hour.ca)
"Ive been a programmer for a long time, but I also start businesses and websites and turn websites into businesses," says developer and entrepreneur Evan Prodromou, founder and CEO of high-tech start-up Status.net ( www.status.net ). Launch

Bledsoe attends engineering conference
AMERICUS Local Georgia Society for Healthcare Engineer (GASHE) Treasurer Sammy Bledsoe recently attended the annual American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) convention in Tampa, Fla. This year, GASHE earned the platinum award, which is th

ABB Unlocks Cash Chest to Buy U.S. Software Maker (Update1)
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- ABB Ltd. , the worldâ?™s biggest manufacturer of power-transmission gear, agreed to acquire a maker of software to manage power grids for more than $1 billion, its first major purchase in more than a decade.