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Seeking memorable mobile apps
Comment More discrimination and discernment is required and this is where application stores can add value. Quocirca's Rob Bamforth looks at what's needed to improve them. Mobile application stores - should they be controlled by... [02 Jul 2009]
Fitting Cox Model Using PROC PHREG and Beyond in SAS
White Paper This paper presents: Using overall C-index as a measure of discrimination for model validation; Calculating adjusted survival rate using corrected group prognosis method; and Presenting the effect of a continuous... [30 May 2009]
EU backs plans for fat pipe-funding risk to be shared
News The draft conclusions said: "To this end, various co-operative arrangements between investors and access seeking parties to diversify the risk of investment should be permitted, while ensuring that the competitive structure of the whole... [23 Mar 2009]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo Asked whether CIOs should use positive discrimination to increase the number of women in the industry - a tactic that has been used to ramp up numbers of female political candidates and boost the representation of women... [16 Dec 2008]
Editor's Blog: Techie slang escapes the server room
Comment Find out what the CIO Jury thinks about positive discrimination as a means to increase the number of female techies. "LOL, that code 18 thinks he's so book but really he's just a 404 CGI Joe. No idea what I'm talking about? [11 Dec 2008]
Women in IT: Positive discrimination not the key, say CIOs
News Despite only one in five tech workers being female, silicon.com's CIO Jury says that positive discrimination is not the right way to boost the number of women in the IT department.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [08 Dec 2008]
Learning and Classification of Malware Behavior
White Paper The paper aims to exploit these shared patterns for classification of malware and propose a method for learning and discrimination of malware behavior. Malicious software in form of Internet worms, computer viruses, and... [22 Oct 2008]
Using More Salient Haptic Cues in Data Visualization
White Paper Under manual haptic exploration, material cues such as texture and compliance have been found to be important for identification and discrimination of objects. This position paper advocates the use of material properties... [13 Oct 2008]
The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities
Comment CIOs should also try, without reverse discrimination, to encourage a more balanced workforce in all aspects of their operations. From the inside, we know that to be true. But what can we do about it? The Naked CIO offers... [28 Apr 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News And it is the basic principles of neutrality and non-discrimination that have allowed the internet to flourish. Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US... [03 Jan 2008]
Machine-Learnt Versus Analytical Models of TCP Throughput
White Paper The paper then investigates the reasons of this inaccuracy, and show that it is largely due to the lack of discrimination between the two packet loss detection methods used by TCP, namely by triple duplicate... [27 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...
Comment Just as with maturnity leave this seems like a good idea in paper, but just as with maturnity leave, it will just lead to discrimination in the workplace, with businesses employing those staff who are less likely make... [15 Nov 2007]
"Rife" ageism causing IT skills crisis?
News Responding to results from the exclusive silicon.com 2007 Skills Survey which revealed employers are finding it increasingly difficult to fill IT positions in their organisations, many readers point to discrimination... [21 Aug 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment For much of the nineteenth century, the US refused copyright protection to foreign authors and it was only with accession to the Berne Convention in 1989 that the US finally dispensed with all vestiges of discrimination. [17 Jul 2007]
Stony Brook Prescribes 8e6 Technologies as the Best Cure for Its Filtering and Reporting Needs
White Paper SBUH uses 8e6's R3000 Internet Filter, along with the Enterprise Reporter 3.0, to manage employee access to inappropriate sites, preventing access to site categories such as pornography, spyware/phishing/malicious code,... [20 Jun 2007]
