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RSS californiaFormer eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday. Whitman, who has never served an elected public office, will announce her bid for the Republican... [22 Sep 2009]
Leading Independent Media Production and Distribution Company Leverages .tv Domain Name as a Catalyst for New Business Initiative
White Paper The Los Angeles, California headquartered company is the largest independent producer/ distributor of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations in the country. Entertainment Studios,... [19 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News Speaking at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to take advantage of existing infrastructure and, in... [17 Sep 2009]
Skype founders vs Skype: 'You've violated our patents'
News Just the latest in an ongoing licence dispute between the popular VoIP service and its developers, the lawsuit, filed in Northern California US District Court, seeks an injunction and damages, which Joltid "reasonably... [17 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News In California, it's almost 20 percent. At a water conference next week, IBM and Intel will be forming a working group to study how information and technology can be used to improve water management, according to IBM. [08 Sep 2009]
McAfee Vulnerability Manager Remediates System Vulnerabilities and Mitigates Risks at CSU, Chico
White Paper At California State University, Chico, (CSU, Chico), popularly known as "Chico State," the Information Security Office (ISEC) is tasked with protecting the university's more than 500 servers, databases, and applications... [01 Sep 2009]
Anchiva Systems Stops Viral, Spyware Infections for University
White Paper Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU), located in Fremont, California, offers undergraduate and graduate-level education for adult students, from as many as 30 different countries worldwide, in the engineering,... [01 Sep 2009]
Sun World Analyzes Crop Costs and Harvesting Efficiency With IBM Cognos TM1
White Paper Based in Bakersfield, California, Sun World International grows and markets fresh fruit and vegetables. It needed to improve operating efficiency through detailed operations and cost analysis. It deployed the extended... [01 Sep 2009]
Achieved 17% Year End Inventory Reduction in Less Than 5 Months
White Paper Headquartered in Fullerton, California, Beckman Coulter is a $2.6 billion global medical device company with more than 78% of its revenue generated by recurring revenue from test kits, supplies and services. [01 Sep 2009]
Panda Security Helps Haven Health With Its Network Security in Accordance With the HIPAA Law
White Paper As IT supervisor of Haven Health, leader in health services that provides patient-oriented home and hospital care and that is based in Long Beach (California), needed a centralized solution that could generate reports... [01 Sep 2009]
County of San Joaquin Information Systems Division Modernizes and Integrates Law and Justice Systems
White Paper The County of San Joaquin Information Systems Division is the central IT organization serving the County of San Joaquin, which is a midsize California county with a population of more than 600,000. It needed to replace... [31 Aug 2009]
Principled Methods for Advising Reinforcement Learning Agents
White Paper An important issue in reinforcement learning is how to incorporate expert knowledge in a principled manner, especially as one scales up to real-world tasks. This paper presents a method for incorporating arbitrary advice into the reward... [29 Aug 2009]
Using the Triangle Inequality to Accelerate k-Means
White Paper The k-means algorithm is by far the most widely used method for discovering clusters in data. The paper shows how to accelerate it dramatically, while still always computing exactly the same result as the standard algorithm. [29 Aug 2009]
At First American, HP BladeSystem Makes One Out of Many
White Paper This Fortune 500 company, based in Santa Ana, California, is America's largest provider of business information, with 2007 revenues of approximately $8.2 billion. First American wanted to scale processing power to... [28 Aug 2009]
Crossing the Valley of Death
White Paper Death Valley in California is the desert that finished off many of the early pioneers heading for the West Coast in their horse-drawn wagons. Today, the 'Valley of Death' is the name given to the gap between the great... [25 Aug 2009]
