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Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Comment Whether these predictions turn out to be true or not, there is no doubt the barriers to individual developers working in the business applications space have been lowered. Citizen developers represent an innovative new... [23 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper As 2007 comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the current threat landscape. The past 12 months comprised a record-breaking year. McAfee recorded well over 100,000 new viruses and Trojans, a 50 percent jump in the total number... [12 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Meanwhile some readers were already looking beyond Windows 7 - to (you guessed it) Windows 8, with predictions for flagship features including 3D, voice recognition, gesture recognition and special emphasis on... [09 Nov 2009]
AdaRank: A Boosting Algorithm for Information Retrieval
White Paper The algorithm, referred to as AdaRank, repeatedly constructs 'Weak rankers' on the basis of re-weighted training data and finally linearly combines the weak rankers for making ranking predictions. The goodness of a model... [30 Oct 2009]
The Growing Adoption of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
White Paper This AnalystPerspectives report presents an overview of analyst observations about the concept of Web 2.0 and their opinions and predictions about its future prospects. Key findings include: Enterprise spending on Web... [29 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News The full list of technology predictions according to Forrester include: Research company Forrester said enterprise architects (EA) should build a list of technologies to watch, for CIOs to use to educate business peers... [12 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who's been thinking up the future for years - with his on-the-money past predictions including the emergence of the internet and a computer being world chess champion by 1998. [29 Sep 2009]
Mobile computing keeping PC shipments afloat
News Despite earlier, more dire predictions, PC sales are now estimated to fall off just two per cent from 2008 totals, according to a report released on Wednesday. The latest forecast issued from market research firm Gartner... [24 Sep 2009]
Efficient Modeling & Simulation of Biological Warfare Using Innovative Design of Experiments Methods
White Paper The goal is to create a fast (seconds) surrogate metamodel of the simulation with which to make suitably accurate predictions of the response output for time consuming (hours) simulation trials not yet run. [16 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet This thaw in spending will be helped by outsourcers offering price drops.of anywhere between five and 20 per cent on IT services deals, according to predictions by Gartner. Not at all: businesses are continually finding... [11 Sep 2009]
Managing Operational Business Intelligence Workloads
White Paper This paper describes approach to dealing with inaccurate predictions. As data warehouses grow in size to petabytes and complex analytic queries play a greater role in day-to-day business operations, factors such as... [02 Sep 2009]
New Optimization Methods in Data Mining
White Paper Data mining is a modern area of science dealing with the learning from given data in order to make predictions and estimations. Applications of Data mining can be found in various areas of academical and non academical... [29 Aug 2009]
Short-Term Prediction of Wind Farm Power: A Data Mining Approach
White Paper The support vector machine regression algorithm provides accurate predictions of wind power and wind speed at 10-min intervals up to 1 h into the future, while the multilayer perceptron algorithm is accurate in... [29 Aug 2009]
Methodology of Adaptation of Data Mining Methods for Medical Decision Support: Case Study
White Paper The problem is to find algorithms suitable to apply in order to discover relationships between data attributes and make predictions that could be useful for decision support. Data mining is a problem solving technique,... [29 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Mac tablet? I remain unconvinced
Comment The latest developments include a report of an analyst that has actually played with the device, and veteran Apple analyst Gene Munster outlining the likely feature set and sales predictions - complete with a very... [18 Aug 2009]
