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Challenge: Design a computer lab for developing world
News AMD is sponsoring a new $250,000 prize challenge that calls on architecture companies to design a computer lab for use in developing nations around the world. AMD set up the challenge with Architecture... [12 Mar 2007]
Package Technology to Address the Memory Bandwidth Challenge for Tera-Scale Computing
White Paper An overall treatment of memory hierarchy, including off-die memory approaches, is not within the scope of this paper, but relevant to the overall challenge of enabling higher bandwidth. Tera-scale computing stresses the... [11 Jul 2008]
IT industry to take on 3 Peaks Challenge for charity
News The UK IT industry is being urged to sign up for a 3 Peaks Challenge in aid of CARE International. Now in its tenth year the Vanco 3 Peaks Challenge is a great opportunity for IT staff to raise money for... [24 Mar 2005]
£5bn NHS IT programme: 'Technology is not the challenge'
News And convincing GPs, doctors and nurses that the new technology is not a threat to their professional judgement will be the biggest challenge - not implementing the technology, according to Fereday. We need to present... [29 Jan 2004]
silicon.com team gearing up for mountain challenge
News We will be taking on the Vanco-sponsored Three Peaks Challenge in support of CARE International and we're still hoping to raise a lot more money. Some of us have done this before and some of us are novices to the... [11 Jul 2005]
Meeting the Challenge: Delivering Digital Access in Rural Africa - How Inveneo Is Developing a Network of In-Country Partners to Expand ICT Access
White Paper To meet this challenge, Inveneo provides ICT systems (hardware/software/ power) for organizations such as NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), local governments, and private enterprises that provide vital services to... [29 May 2009]
Link Mining: A New Data Mining Challenge
White Paper A key challenge for data mining is tackling the problem of mining richly structured datasets, where the objects are linked in some way. Links among the objects may demonstrate certain patterns, which can be helpful for... [29 Apr 2009]
The Big Question: IT directors face up to ebusiness challenge
News IT directors must work hard on their image at board level if companies are to cope with the challenge of ebusiness. So mixing what the business wants and what IT can provide is going to be the biggest... [30 Jul 2000]
Microsoft customers set to challenge settlement today
News US users of Microsoft software who claim they were overcharged as a result of the high-tech giant's anti-competitive practices will today challenge efforts to reach a nationwide settlement. Under the settlement proposed... [27 Nov 2001]
IT governance could be industry's biggest challenge yet
News As EU regulatory legislation passes through Parliament with IT in its sights, the industry could be facing its biggest challenge yet, according to analysts. With the threat of jail sentences hanging over CEOs or CFOs... [19 Nov 2003]
Nasa hacker's last legal challenge fails
News Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the US to face charges of hacking Nasa and military installations. Karen Todner, McKinnon's solicitor, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that... [28 Aug 2008]
Magical Thinking in Data Mining: Lessons From CoIL Challenge 2000
White Paper CoIL challenge 2000 was a supervised learning contest that attracted 43 entries. The authors of 29 entries later wrote explanations of their work. This paper discusses these reports and reaches three main conclusions. [06 Oct 2008]
AMD set to challenge Intel dominance
News AMD is the first chipmaker to challenge Intel in the business processor market, with the top of the line model reaching speeds of 650MHz. AMD's Athlon processor range, released at the beginning of this week, has been... [11 Aug 1999]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose "an interesting software challenge", said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software development, Gates said innovations in natural... [14 Aug 2008]
Sun faces Java challenge from open source developers
News US software developer, Cygnus has released a suit of Java tools designed to challenge Sun Microsystems' control of the programming language. The library tools are open source, meaning that anyone can download them for... [14 Apr 1999]