Navajo Nation's 'noble cause' among honored IT projects
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This year's recipients of the Computerworld Honors Program's achievement awards include organizations such as the Navajo Nation, which is building an integrated network so its residents can participate in the information age.
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Buoyed by hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profits from their gambling businesses, Indian tribes are looking farther afield for places to invest their casino wealth.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  May 31--When a congressional subcommittee conducts a field hearing in Pueblo on Friday on the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Crowley County will surely be part of the historical context.
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 31--Attention Silicon Valley philanthropists: Here's a worthy cause for you.
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For the first time, a woman has been chosen as one of two candidates facing off for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, whose reservation is the largest in the country.
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From the wetlands out front to the undulating exterior, Washington, D.C.'s new National Museum of the American Indian is built on native ideas. Includes photo gallery.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 3--A plan to give communities east of Pueblo a little more water from the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, even if the Arkansas Valley Conduit is never built, passed a committee's scrutiny Thursday.
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At a ceremony in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution honored the first handheld electronic calculator, which was developed by a team at Texas Instruments.
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By PAM ZUBECK THE GAZETTE  PUEBLO - In August 1962, President John Kennedy put a shovel in the ground to begin the transmountain Fryingpan-Arkansas River project.
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TechWeb - A project sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security spotlights defects in popular applications such as Linux and Apache. But there's also good news.
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By Patty Machelor, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 15--A plan to help preserve the Southeast Side's Fantasy Island trails area has received an award from a national group called American Trails.
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A $250,000 demonstration project that produces hydrogen energy to provide backup lighting and warmth at the Chewonki Foundation's environmental education center was hailed at its unveiling Monday as the first of its kind in the nation.
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Initiative focuses on popular scripting language with the aim to improve security.
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The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation is supporting Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, saying she would best protect tribal sovereignty.
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SAN MANUEL INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. -- Once steeped in poverty, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has become one of the nation's wealthiest tribes, thanks to casino gambling.
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From the wetlands out front to the undulating exterior, the new National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., is built on native ideas. Includes photo gallery.
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The National Science Foundation will fund projects that push computing power beyond silicon.