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Collaborating centers in time zones six to eight hours apart can transfer work so that every center is working during the daytime. Although this concept avoids the hazards of night work, it requires careful planning and a way to automatically capture evolving knowledge.
In addition to reducing the time it took to pay for purchases, bar codes and scanners provided a system that would track inventory, reduce theft, and provide data to help merchants understand how their goods were purchased.
Originality is the spice of personality. Personal originality shows itself in two ways: in the expression of ideas and in the ideas expressed; in brief, in behavior and in thought. Curiously, this concept is reflected in the distinction between the two main aspects of what is nowadays called intellectual property. Copyright relates to the expression of ideas, patents to useful industrial ideas however...
As Web technology moved from the laboratory to the public sphere, website design moved from being the product of a single individual to become the responsibility of a group.
Computing professionals have skills and experience relevant to the proper design and implementation of systems of government. In the January 2009 the author offered two binary measures - one old, one new - to attack the monetary disease now severely affecting the world. The old one would limit artificial entities such as commercial enterprises to two levels of ownership. The new one would limit representations...
Electronic systems change the flow of work, the habits of thought, the way we perceive our activities. In the case of healthcare, such changes could easily produce a system that is radically different from the one we know.
In addition to its traditional role as a professionally oriented major, computing must expand as a mainstream service discipline, with significance for all schools in academia.
The Agile values are ethical values. The author describes four values that form the basis of agility and challenges the computing profession to pursue these values.
In computer science education, we tend to emphasize the knowledge that we need to impart to our students and the skills they need to develop, but we generally fail to talk about the emotional and cultural aspects of their growth.
In this paper, the issues regarding computing professionals and their personal skill required in industry is discussed. A study commissioned by a Spanish private university analyzed the social and organizational image of professional graduates in various fields. This study found that computing people tend to be considered technically competent and efficient, but were seen as outliers in the game of...
Like many of the accomplishments of software engineering, connecting the grid to a virtual machine is a way of hiding information, of allowing programmers to focus on the task they want to complete and ignore details beyond that task.
Internships help students determine their future career paths while providing companies with creative and energetic contributors who offer fresh perspectives and innovative skills.
Potential customers will be interested in new technology only if it somehow makes their lives better—if it moves them toward a goal they hold for themselves, their family, their company.
Without a human organization that can sift information and raise the gold from the dust, knowledge will die as rumor and innuendo will overwhelm any truth that may be making the rounds.
The paper discusses the different aspects and varieties of virtual reality.Digital technology affects subjective reality by changing what individuals experience and what they make of what they observe. Otherwise, reality is an interactive construct. Physical reality is built by the consensus of those actively concerned in defining and understanding particular classes of things. Social reality is built...
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