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John Andersen - Software Engineer, Internet Entreprenuer, Successful Business Owner, MBA Student from Arbon Valley, Idaho and current resident of Provo, Utah.
March 5, 2008
John Joins Management Team
John was promoted to become Manager of Automation Eforts for the Novell Systems Resource Management business unit. He will work closely with SRM's global R&D offices in Canada, Mexico, India, and the US. His focus will include automation analysis across the entire SRM Product Line. With this change John also became a scrum team Business Analyist.
February 24, 2008
Business Marketing Course
John completed an enlightening course in Business Marketing Strategies. The course was taught by Mike Parent. Highlights of the course included a brandmap's competition and case studies.
December 8, 2007
John Tackles Econometrics
John starts the holidays off right by completing his latest MBA class, Econometrics. Dr. Don Snyder taught this challenging class. John left the class knowing more about the properties of statistical distributions and how to test the correlation of economic data to help develop more accurate forecasts.
October 18, 2007
Research Class Completed
John finished up an advanced research methodoligies class used in the MBA program. Study included qualitative and quantitative tools and techniques for driving business research.
September 17, 2007
John's Fifth Child is Born
John's fifth child and second son was born Monday morning at 7:30AM via C-Section. Mom and baby are now home and doing very well. John hopes that he will be able to return to a normal night's sleep before many more weeks.
August 10, 2007
John finishes Advanced Accounting Information Systems course
During the early summer months, John studied under Shingo prize winner, Dr. Richard L. Jenson. The course focus was to expose students to a wide variety of information technology useful in determining company strategies. Topics included integrated databases, process modeling, business intelligence, knowledge management, data mining, and online analytical processing (OLAP).
August 3, 2007
John Andersen completes Scrum training course
Starting in the end of July, John was enrolled in a week long training course designed to teach professionals how to implement the Agile development methodology, Scrum, within their organizations. The course was taught by Kenny Rubin, president of Innolution, Inc. and practioner of the Scrum Alliance. The course first focused on the individual contributor and then branched out into Product Owner roles.
June 30, 2007
John completes course taught by former AMI executive
John just completed an "Operations Management" course taught by former AMI Semiconductor executive, Dr. Randy Cook. The course study focused on lean manufacturing methodologies. Dr. Cook's experience both from AMI and Utah State University brought valuable insights into lean theory and its application.
May 16, 2007
John's Intern Makes the News
John Andersen is responsible for an intern that made the news in the local newspaper. The Intern, Brandon Pedersen, is making great contributions to John's team. Click to read the Daily Herald article.
May 7, 2007
Google favors John Andersen
The "John Andersen" website makes the front page on Google for search terms: John Andersen and John James Andersen.
April 17, 2007
Another semester down!
John Andersen finished the second semester of MBA school at Utah State University.  Classes included Accounting Strategies and Financial Problems & Analysis.
December 18, 2007
First MBA semester completed
John Andersen finished the first semester of MBA school at Utah State University.  Classes included Business Ethics and Organizational Behavior.
August 8, 2006
Ready for business!
John finished the one year pre-requisite work for the MBA program at Utah State University.  He completed the year of classes with a 4.0 average. Course work begins in September for the two year master's program.


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05/13/2008 07:49 PM
A View From Inside the OLPC Project
icknay writes "Here's an interesting rant on the OLPC from someone who worked there, including: 'The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning — that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open — with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable. Choosing to reinvent the desktop UI paradigm means we are spending our extremely over-constrained resources fighting graphical interfaces, not developing better tools for learning.' I have an OLPC, and the OS itself seems quite unfinished. I buy the argument that it would be better to focus on Sugar as educational software, and let it run on Linux, Windows, whatever."

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05/13/2008 05:59 PM
Comparing 3G Networks
bsk_cw writes "Brian Nadel got hold of cellular network cards from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, and tried them out with a Lenovo ThinkPad X300 notebook. He watched videos on commuter trains, worked with e-mail at cafes, listened to Internet radio at the airport, and downloaded large files while in a moving car. AT&T came out on top in his tests in the New York area (summary here). Some of the reader comments report different conclusions, so a YMMV is in order."

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05/13/2008 04:08 PM
Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed
schliz writes in with research out of Sweden in which researchers showed that, looking at a quantum cryptographic system as a whole, it was possible for an eavesdropper to extract some information about the QC key, thus reducing the security of the overall system. The team then proposed a cheap and simple fix for the problem. "The advanced technology was thought to be unbreakable due to laws of quantum mechanics that state that quantum mechanical objects cannot be observed or manipulated without being disturbed. But a research team at Linköping University in Sweden claim that it is possible for an eavesdropper to [get around the limitations] without being discovered. In a research paper, published in the international engineering journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (abstract), the researchers propose a change in the quantum cryptography process that they expect will restore the security of the technology."

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05/13/2008 03:22 PM
UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs
Christopher Blanc writes to let us know that although BECTA, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, has filed a complaint with EU regulators about Microsoft's business practices, the European Commission won't be doing anything particular about it. BECTA claimed that the OOXML format discourages competition. BECTA lodged a similar complaint with the UK Office of Fair Trading last October. A Commission press officer said, "We are already looking into the issues raised in that complaint already and we are not treating it as a formal complaint to us."

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05/13/2008 02:42 PM
Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism
waderoush writes "The majority of the comments on last week's Slashdot post It's Not a Flying Car — It's A Drivable Airplane were critical, even dismissive, of Terrafugia's work to build a two-passenger airplane with folding wings that's also certified for highway driving. We boiled down these criticisms to the dozen most commonly expressed points, and today we've published responses from Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich. While hybrid airplane-automobiles are an old (some would say laughable) idea, Dietrich argues that current materials and avionics technologies finally make the concept feasible."

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