Angry Birds

Angry Birds is an addictive smartphone game that is the best-selling iPhone app (application) for 2010. The birds are angry in the game because pigs steal their eggs and the birds plot revenge upon the pigs.  Coming soon: Angry Bird applications for gaming consoles...

NNT (Number Needed to Treat)

Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is “a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy [that estimates] the number of patients that need to be treated in order to have an impact on one person.”  A perfect NNT would be one ”” treat one person, and one person benefits. ...

BARDA

BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, uses a comprehensive integrated portfolio approach to the advanced research...

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright.  CC allows sharing of work with others through licensing rules, as described below by the nice people at My Creative Team on their blog THINKing. Attribution ”“ You let others copy,...

SSO (single sign on)

A SSO server stores passwords in a safe database and makes it available to the user transparently during the login process. The end result is that the user has to sign in just once.