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RSS societyMinority Report: The Snow Leopard Appreciation Society
Comment Apple's latest OS doesn't aim to wow with a host of new features: it's the little things that count, says Seb Janacek A lot has been written about Snow Leopard since its release two weeks ago: but maybe the best way of describing Apple's... [16 Sep 2009]
Exploiting Cryptography for Privacy-Enhanced Access Control: A Result of the PRIME Project
White Paper The EC-funded project PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) envisions that individuals will be able to interact in this information society in a secure and safe way while retaining control of their privacy. [16 Sep 2009]
A Real-World Approach to Planning the Right Workforce for Tomorrow's Organizations - Part 1: An Introduction to Workforce Planning
White Paper Every organization is heading towards a future determined by its current trends and practices in areas such as recruitment, turnover and promotion, and also by social trends taking place in the wider society in which the... [12 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment Green IT' is now a recognised aspect of working and buying in the sector, illustrated by the fact the British Computing Society is in the process of launching its Green IT Qualification. However with green issues... [10 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment Through novels such as Microserfs, which charts the progress of Microsoft employees during the mid-1990s, and JPod, which tells a parallel tale of computer game developers in thrall to Google a decade later, he has consistently... [08 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News On the first day of the events, Viviane Reding, the EU's commissioner for information society and media, and Charlie McCreevy, commissioner for the bloc's internal market, said in a joint statement "it is time for... [08 Sep 2009]
Fujitsu Case Study: RED.ES
White Paper The Spanish National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (ONTSI), part of the public organisation red.es within the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, is responsible for monitoring and... [01 Sep 2009]
Committed to the Climate Change Debate?: In the Turmoil of a Global Financial Crisis, Does Society Still Have the Will - And Does It Still Make Sense - To Keep Steering Towards a Low-Carbon Future?
White Paper In an effort to improve service delivery to constituents most e-government initiatives & the 1990s focused on making services accessible online. But online access only addresses the front end of service delivery. [30 Aug 2009]
Development of Color-Distinguishing Application "ColorAttendant"
White Paper In the current situation where mobile phones are widespread in society and considering the design of public spaces for people with color blindness and their needs for distinguishing colors in daily life, Fujitsu has... [30 Aug 2009]
Fujitsu's Sustainable Business Heritage
White Paper For Fujitsu, sustainable business management means that through activities, products and services it will contribute to a better society, now and into the future. Fujitsu works at sustainable business management. [30 Aug 2009]
The Future of School
White Paper Key dimensions of wider education system reform include attracting and developing high-quality teachers; developing holistic curricula and associated assessment frameworks that test the ability to meet the requirements of a global,... [30 Aug 2009]
A Visual Data Mining Methodology to Conduct Seismic Facies Analysis: Part 2 - Application to 3D Seismic Data
White Paper A visual data-mining approach to unsupervised clustering analysis can be an effective tool for visualizing and understanding patterns inherent in seismic data i.e.seismic facies. The unsupervised clustering analysis is completely... [29 Aug 2009]
A Hybrid Data Mining Metaheuristic for the p-Median Problem
White Paper Metaheuristics represent an important class of techniques to solve, approximately, hard combinatorial optimization problems for which the use of exact methods is impractical. In this work, one proposes a hybrid version of the GRASP... [29 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up Given the chance they would probably have taken screengrabs of the blue rectangles on their smartphones, uploaded them to the web, blogged about them then spent a few minutes re-tweeting the blog URL on Twitter while IMing their friends... [28 Aug 2009]
Irish Social Services Web Portal Wins Accessibility Award, Boosts Traffic 50 Percent
White Paper The Department of Social and Family Affairs in Ireland promotes a caring society by providing income and other supports to enable active participation in society, promote social inclusion, and support... [28 Aug 2009]
