Staff writer A new $98 million computer system will link all state agencies' financial data and make West Virginia government more transparent, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Wednesday.
When IBM's Watson computer defeated "Jeopardy!" legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the company was merely providing a sneak peak into the future of computing. It is a fairly sizable computer system today, but you might be able to hold that in the palm of your hand within three decades," Dr. Mahmoud Naghshineh, vice president of services research at IBM Watson Research, said during the Growing Sustainable Communities conference Wednesday at the Grand River Center. "What then, when you have computing power of that magnitude in the palm of your hands? What are the applications? We think what you can apply to a system like this is just limitless.
A Hillsboro dentist spent almost $110,000 on a computer system that would enable him to run a "paperless office. But Hillsboro Dental's patient information disappeared when four computer hard drives were damaged or destroyed, and the provider Goetze Neimer Co. didn't live up to its promises to retrieve the information at no cost, Hillsboro Dental alleges in a federal lawsuit filed by attorney L. Steven Goldblatt.
In the week since county officials launched a new computer-aided dispatch system, police officers have gone into calls "blind" and dispatchers have lost track of ambulances and fire crews, according to the leaders of some local unions and several officers and firefighters The $6.6 million system, which went live eight days ago, was plagued with problems over the weekend, said O'Brien Atkinson, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 70.
DAILY MAIL STAFF The Kanawha County Metro 911 Board will be getting a new million- dollar, computer-aided dispatch system.
A federal team of program auditors is in Maine this week to determine whether a computer system used by Maine's Department of Health and Human Services meets federal standards. If it does, the state will get more federal money to support Medicaid services.
For three years, Bloomington's information technology director, Scott Sprouls, has been warning the city that it needs a new computer system. For three years, the city has been putting off action - primarily because of its tight budget.
The Air Force has awarded an additional $94 million in contract work for the Expeditionary Combat Support System program, an effort to modernize Air Force logistics and supply computers worldwide, just months after the Defense Department proposed to interrupt funding because the $600 million-plus program was behind schedule. The multiyear project, being led by Computer Sciences Corp. in Beavercreek, supports about 500 jobs in the Dayton area and approximately 800 to 1,100 nationwide, federal officials said. The work may not be completed until 2016, they added.
A Hillsboro dentist spent almost $110,000 on a computer system that would enable him to run a "paperless office. But Hillsboro Dental's patient information disappeared when four computer hard drives were damaged or destroyed, and the provider Goetze Neimer Co. didn't live up to its promises to retrieve the information at no cost, Hillsboro Dental alleges in a federal lawsuit filed by attorney L. Steven Goldblatt.
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