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Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Each ambulance has a Mercedes Benz engine and costs about $40,000 compared to $140,000 in the US. [30 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847. [12 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech... [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured above is the counting mechanism of the Difference engine - in perfect symmetry prior to its first-ever usage. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [10 Apr 2008]
CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT
News What they do require is an ability to take some risks - no riskier than an Italian publishing house I knew, which spent two years on a massive advertising engine only for their top three software provider to decide that they would no longer... [19 Jun 2007]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment The engine behind the portal also crunches a vast amount of store data and management information tailored to each store, based on its location and benchmarked against a group of similar stores, to provide what Fraser calls the "manager's five... [25 Apr 2007]
Spanish Aeronautical Manufacturer Expects CRM Solution to Improve Results
White Paper Aeronautical engine and gas turbine manufacturer ITP operates in the public sector through its Defence Programmes division, and the private sector with Civil and Maintenance Programmes. The difference between the two divisions is that Defence... [22 Jan 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My productivity has peaked
Comment An effective search engine would be next followed by modelling and decision support. Any amount of basic machine upgrading, and it continues apace, won't make a jot of difference, as I am now the fundamental slowdown agent. [27 Nov 2006]
Understanding Exchange Databases Disk Consumption
White Paper Exchange databases are based on the JET engine, actually a variant of the JET engine called Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). Examining the versions of the ESE engines used by the different versions of Exchange server will uncover the fact that... [18 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter?
Comment Before that it was elevators, engine management and stock market trading etc! The key difference between the human species and technology seems to be the speed of progress. Written in Helsinki Airport, edited in Shrivenham and despatched from my... [19 Jun 2006]
Visto triumphs in Seven patent suit
News NTP invented wheels, and we invented an engine but we're putting together a car here," he said in explaining the difference. Wireless email vendor Visto has prevailed in a long-running patent infringement suit against rival Seven Networks... [02 May 2006]
Aligning IT and the Business: An In-Depth Look at Scoring, Selecting and Scheduling the Project Portfolio
White Paper The BEN Alignment Engine allows the enterprise, presented with a choice of portfolio items, to hold the appropriate amount or weighting of each item to achieve the highest returns, at a desired level of risk. [23 Feb 2006]
Interview: Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy
Comment Although that's the idea someone is looking for they will walk up to a search engine and just type 'penguin'. We've been trained to assume the search engine is dumb and that takes a little un-training in enterprise. [19 Sep 2005]
Opinion: Blogging - the great democratic equaliser?
Comment Before the weblog found a place in the dictionary, I used my own blog to jot down columns and experiences, and was pleasantly surprised to find people visiting, if only by accident or through some obscure search-engine search phrase. [14 Sep 2005]
