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Although he had already established a successful business in Virginia Beach, Va., providing mobile medical laser technologies to hospitals and surgery centers in the mid-Atlantic area, Marvin "Skip" Schuelke (marketing management '69) wanted to expand his company.
"We wanted expertise to determine how this business model could be replicated and expanded with other minimally invasive technologies and in new areas," says Schuelke, whose company, Schuelke Laser Systems, serves urology specialists who need the latest technology but prefer not to buy the equipment. Before he moved forward, Schuelke needed answers to some key questions: What were the economies of scale? How was his company different from the competition? And what were the risks of expanding?
In Blacksburg, Darrell Davis (industrial engineering and operations research '82; M.S. '84), an executive with experience at a Fortune 500 company in Chicago, had launched a company called Flow Tech to make and distribute drinking straws. "We intend to provide a unique and fun twist on straws that will excite consumers," says Davis. Fun aside, he needed serious information on the available market opportunities -- especially for small, minority-owned businesses -- and on the competition.

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Wireless interconnecting in USA

Existing communications and computer architecture are increasingly being limited by the pedestrian speed of electrons moving through wires, and the future of high-speed communication and computing is in optics, experts say. The Holy Grail of results would be "wireless interconnecting," which operates at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current technology. The new discovery, made by researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Iowa and Philipps University in Germany, has identified a way in which nanoscale devices based on gallium arsenide can respond to strong terahertz pulses for an extremely short period, controlling the electrical signal in a semiconductor. The research builds on previous findings for which OSU holds an issued patent.

Updating our Google Account inactivity policy

Every day Google works hard to keep you and your private information safe and secure by preventing unauthorized access to your Google Account with our built-in security protections. And keeping you safe means having strong privacy practices across our products that minimize how long we store your personal files and any data associated with them. We want to protect your private information and prevent any unauthorized access to your account even if you're no longer using our services. Therefore, we are updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to two years across all our products and services. This change starts rolling out today and will apply to any Google Account that's been inactive, meaning it has not been signed into or used within a two-year period. An inactive account and any content in it will be eligible for deletion from December 1, 2023. What this means for you: These changes do not impact you unless you h

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