With all the recent hype around March madness recently you may have forgotten that MIX 06 is taking place right now in Vegas. Word on the street has it that ATLAS was the big buzz today at the 72 hour event – “Atlas” is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized standards based Web applications. “Atlas” makes AJAX-style development easier and more accessible to a broader range of developers, while enabling developers to enrich existing ASP.NET 2.0 applications. The new go-live license gives developers the opportunity to take their “Atlas” applications into production. For more about this I urge you to consult some of the following resources:
Archives for March 20, 2006
USGS announces 2007 earthquake research grants
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today that it will award up to $5.5 million in National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) grants for earthquake research in 2007. Researchers interested can review the grant announcement and apply online at
www.grants.gov. Applications are due May 2, 2006.