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April 9, 2024
The Next Key Advancements in AI: Cooperative Agents, Long-Term Memory, and Executive Workflow
By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
ChatGPT is amazing, but it hasn’t revolutionized the world as we might have first imagined. Why? Because it has significant limitations. However, there are exciting frameworks recently developed by AI researchers that give large language…
June 2, 2007
Enigmail — neat‑o GnuGP extension for Thunderbird
I just installed Enigmail, a GnuGP (free, open source version of PGP encryption) extension that makes it incredibly easy to send encrypted e‑mail through Thunderbird. Install of GnuGP was easy using MacGPG, but I hit one snag in getting to grips with…
January 17, 2014
TCG CTO Robert Buccigrossi Wins 2014 Washington SmartCEO Executive Management Award
TCG’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert “Butch” Buccigrossi, is a winner of Washington SmartCEO’s 2014 Executive Management Award in the CIO/CTO category.
The Washington SmartCEO Executive Management Awards honor outstanding C‑suite executives in four categories—CFO, CIO/CTO, COO and CXO (other C‑suite…
September 26, 2012
TCG’s Lisa Alferieff Profiled in Federal Computer Week
Federal Computer Week has posted a profile of TCG Chief Operating Officer Lisa Alferieff in recognition of her being named a recipient of FCW’s 2012 Rising Star award.
The
Rising Star award program recognizes top public and private sector
employees who have…
August 21, 2008
Achieve Zen About Spam with Zimbra
This past Monday the amount of spam hitting our Zimbra mail server (5.0.5) spiked to twice the usual amount, causing our sever to fall 15 minutes behind in delivery. While we were doing pretty well with spam blocking through Pyzor…
July 27, 2006
A nice reminder
I went to a meeting today with some folks I’d never met before and we got to talking about the use of open source. They are in a government agency and are extremely enthusiastic about using as much OSS as possible. And…
December 2, 2009
GPC webcast set for 12/10/09 at 2pm EST
As we reported earlier, the Grants Policy Committee webcast is set for December 10th at 2pm. Here’s the latest agenda:
Introduction
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Reporting Overview, Lessons Learned, and Question and Answer (Q & A)
Government Accountability Office…
January 10, 2006
OMB’s selling of e‑government to Congress
Jason Miller at GCN does a great job in reporting on OMB’s report to Congress which attempts to salvage funding for e‑gov projects. The crux of OMB’s problem is that Congress assigns money to each agency for specified purposes but has…
April 3, 2009
Grants.gov schedules webcast for April 15
The next Grants.gov webcast will be on April 15 at 1pm EDT. No registration is required. Just click here at 1pm on April 15th! Here’s the agenda:
Introduction
Grants.gov Quarterly Update
Grants.gov and the Recovery Act
Grants.gov Recently Accomplished System…
July 10, 2012
First Certified Grants Management Professionals
Grants management is getting more complicated with every new funding bill that passes Congress or in state legislatures, and with every new grants program created in federal, state, and local governments and in private foundations. Perhaps once grants could be…