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Comment The big problem, she says, is the gap between the overly technical computer science courses and the very basic computing education. On route to the top of her profession she has successfully tackled some massive IT-based change management...
[13 May 2008]
Comment Emasculated by so-called "Computer Science" departments; that's where. The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home computer?
[24 Apr 2008]
Comment With an educational background in computer science he went on to become global CIO for logistics company DHL and then CIO for Lenovo Group where he helped lead the initial stages of the $11bn spin-off from IBM in 2005.
[01 Apr 2008]
Comment When you look at it as a value chain that starts at school, when boys are good at maths or they're good at science they get told to go and be doctors or go and be engineers. Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM...
[18 Mar 2008]
Comment The BBC publicity for the series describes it as "predictive, rather than science fiction", a look at how misused technology can threaten human relationships and destroy trust. That really does take us into the realms of science fiction…
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment Believe me, this isn't rocket science. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched from a coffee shop in London over a commercial wi-fi service I have just been challenged about some of the statements in my 12 June 2007 blog about the...
[12 Dec 2007]
AS Profile Blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow is one of the editors of influential tech blog BoingBoing - which describes itself as "A directory of wonderful things". From 2002-2006 Doctorow was the director of European affairs for the digital...
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile The assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University helped develop this Captcha technology back in 2000. Described as a "real guy to watch" by one of the panel, Luis Von Ahn is one of the people to blame for...
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile She also serves on the board of Intuit and has degrees in computer science, mechanical engineering and naval architecture. VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene has made this year's list for turning virtualisation from a little-known technology...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment The MRI scanner happens to be one of the most powerful inventions available to medical science. Written at a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service
[20 Sep 2007]
Comment At the time it all seemed pretty academic and soundly in the realms of science fiction. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN Even before I was born the 'Three Laws of Robotics...
[07 Aug 2007]
Comment Science fiction novelist William Gibson has been exploring the relationship between technology and society ever since he burst on to the literary scene with his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer in 1984. You can see it in corporate futurism as easily...
[06 Aug 2007]
CIO Analysis But what are the skills and experience needed to land that top seat and is it a help or a hindrance to have a degree in computer science and an IT background? With technology increasingly at the heart of most organisations the opportunity is there...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Jennings has a degree in mathematics, philosophy and history of science and has spent several years living and working in France, Germany and the US. The only name on the CIO50 list representing a charity, Simon Jennings has almost three decades of...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Cobain started his IT career at the Mars Group after gaining a degree in Computational and Statistical Science at Liverpool University. What they say about him: "He is the classic 'new CIO' - an IT professional who has been an old-style IT director...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment For almost all of my professional life I have been trying to communicate complex concepts to individuals and audiences not versed in science, mathematics, technology and engineering. Written on BA217 flying London to Washington and dispatched to...
[09 May 2007]
Comment Schneier's words echo those of Lord Broers, the chair of the House of Lords science and technology committee. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London Olympia.
[25 Apr 2007]
Comment Delivering the first keynote of the day, Lord Broers, chair of the House of Lords science and technology committee, singled out Microsoft's use of pop-ups to warn end-users of potential security threats.
[24 Apr 2007]
Comment The artificial silos created to categorise science, engineering and technology looked increasingly irrelevant - and were becoming an impediment to discovery and success. Later I was invited to join more science, technology and engineering...
[29 Mar 2007]
Comment A recent DTI report to the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee conceded that the last three to four years have seen the emergence of virtual organised crime groups which are highly organised and operate exclusively via the internet.
[07 Mar 2007]
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