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Photo Although operated by hand crank, the Difference Engine is still considered an automated machine because it does the computations automatically. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the Difference Engine in 1847.
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside. SonoSite, Inc.is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This month's column lends a helping hand by teaching one to ask all the right questions before one gets started. With so many great options, choosing the right technology for one's mobile development projects can leave one spoiled for choice.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Standard design and analysis patterns are helpful but don't usually show how to apply techniques or demonstrate working examples that are similar to the problem at hand. Modeling complex software and business systems can be a challenging task.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper The exception is that in an MDA process the design issues, architectural style, patterns, and so on, are all determined and implemented using the MDA tool, rather than by separate processes of diagramming and then hand coding.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper The user can make these activities simple fill-ins that he or she can print and hand out to the students, or the user can create a template that students can fill in by using the computer. Teaching is all about borrowing ideas, and the author would...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper How does one grow the development team to adopt a new viewpoint that encompasses the entire system rather than focusing just on the task at hand? As a developer of software systems, one typically focuses on the finest level of detail.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Erlanger Health ensured nurses are no longer responsible of performing inventory counts, allowing more time to bedside care and interfaced with hand-held devices to transmit counts directly into PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management system.
[11 May 2008]
Round-Up After all, when does a minister ever take heed of the overwhelming advice of advisors when there's a personal crusade at hand? Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants...
[09 May 2008]
Comment On the other hand you might hear about a marvellous setup from a barely known vendor and find yourself worrying about the likelihood of them going out of business and taking your application and data with them.
[09 May 2008]
Comment So before you dismiss open source out of hand I suggest you acquire some expertise in the area yourself, if only so you can understand what your staff are doing. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers again...
[08 May 2008]
News The warning light system has also been proven by UCLH to increase hand washing by up to 10 per cent. The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer.
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard and protect all transaction and consumer data. Accepting credit and debit cards is a fact of life at campuses nationwide. Unfortunately, education institutions because of their...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper These firewall rules are mostly custom-designed and hand-written thus in constant need for tuning and validation, due to the dynamic nature of the traffic characteristics, ever-changing network environment and its market demands.
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper On the other hand, upon receiving a handsomely spaced, well-constructed, and well-organized letter, a customer unconsciously assumes it has come from an up-to-date, well-organized, and successful business.
[03 May 2008]
Photo On the left-hand side is the media and communications hub. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year.
[02 May 2008]
whitepaper Microsoft Word has different ways for the user to get a good view of the work, depending on the task at hand. One can't set a default for all documents that one views in Word, because the view setting is stored with each individual document as a...
[02 May 2008]
whitepaper Hand it down to someone else? One knows how to set up a new computer. But what does one do with an old office computer? Give it to charity? Throw it in the trash? Before one decides, take a few minutes to review the options.
[02 May 2008]
News The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen this year. Outsourcer Satyam will bring CGI effects to the silver screen when First Fear hits the cinemas around June this year.
[29 Apr 2008]
Comment After 9/11, an occasional lapse of memory meant my hand baggage continued to contain items no longer permitted in the cabin. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later.
[29 Apr 2008]
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