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Human Resource Service Provider Enhances Development Efficiency and Business Agility
White Papers TALX, provider of Equifax Workforce Solutions, delivers automated, Web-based human resource, payroll, and employment-verification services to more than 9,000 business customers. The company wanted to enhance the agility of its development...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Jack Human Simulation Software Helps Pratt & Whitney by Speeding Aircraft Engine Development
White Papers The company adopted solution that include design for maintainability considerations upfront which simulate human maintenance in software to optimize the design to communicate maintainability issues via 3D visualizations and Validate...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
Integrating Human-Computer Interaction Development Into SDLC: A Methodology
White Papers Incorporating a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective into the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is critical to Information Systems (IS) success and in turn to the success of businesses. The human interaction aspect of an information...
[April 26, 2006, 1:00]
Japanese scientists want to build robot child
News Japanese researchers are pressing the government to invest in an ambitious robot development scheme, with the aim of creating a machine that has the artificial intelligence of a human child, reported the Japan Times.
[August 26, 2003, 10:05]
2003 World Almanac - US Government
Downloads The Database contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable RecordsBush Administration, including Branches of US Government, President, Vice President, Cabinet Department Heads, White House Staff, Executive Agencies...
[February 4, 2003, 6:00]
UK lags behind in Europe in IT optimism
News In the UK and France, marketing, research and development and human resource budgets face the axe before IT. Mike Kiely, UPS's UK finance director, said he thought this year's results were among the most interesting in the survey's 13-year history...
[December 4, 2003, 16:00]
E-learning spurned by UK staff
News Resistance to e-learning is partly down to the loss of the human touch, with 72 percent preferring face-to-face conversations and 37 percent opting for tutor-led development. A survey of 998 managers by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and...
[December 7, 2007, 8:20]
What Open Source shares with Science
Blog One of the overlooked advantages that Open Source development affords, is that it imitates perhaps the most fruitful and beneficial of all human endeavours: Science. There has never been a similar period in human history, with the possible...
[June 12, 2009, 10:52]
On the Origin of the Human Mind by Andrey Vyshedskiy (in PDF format)
Downloads The author discusses the forces that influenced the development of the hominid intelligence and offers a step-by-step theory that links improvement in visual information processing to speech development and to the types of stone tools manufactured...
[December 17, 2008, 6:00]
Memory, intelligence and the Internet
News In each stage of cultural development (and hundreds of separate lines of development could be tracked like this), the average human had to learn complex new skills and abilities that all involve massive brain change.
[September 23, 2005, 14:00]
Talking PCs? Talk to the hand
News However, recent developments, particularly from Japanese developers of humanoid robots, have seen the development of more sophisticated electromechanical analogues of the human vocal tract that promise much more natural-sounding formant speech...
[June 12, 2006, 13:25]
Can a human love a robot?
News Humans have human emotions and robots have robot emotions. Humans have an exceptional tendency to invest a variety of emotions in inanimate objects such as cars, houses and so on, but experts in artificial life believe the capabilities of...
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News These systems claim to test whether there's a human on the other end. But it's only technology that can challenge certain human abilities. What visual verification is testing is whether someone is a sighted human, even if that's not the intent of...
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
Tech-obsessed BPM vendors ignoring users' needs
News While users focus more on the human interaction angle of BPM, vendors prefer to see the system as a "technology sell" — a standpoint which can negatively affect communication, according to Butler. Unfortunately, even today, many BPM vendors still...
[January 23, 2008, 14:26]
Open source plan could aid torture victims
News The company chose open source partly because it's cheap but mainly because it would let human rights workers in foreign countries -- especially those that don't trust the United States -- tinker under the hood to ensure that no back doors or...
[April 10, 2001, 8:31]
'Cyborgs' to converge in London
News These devout transhumanists -- individuals who believe that technology should be used to improve upon the human condition -- will discuss a range of topics including cryonics, life extension, nanotechnology, mind uploading, genetic engineering and...
[July 14, 2000, 9:41]
What are the hot IT jobs for 2003?
News PeopleSoft services director, Steven Bool, claimed that a recent surge in sales is behind a shortage of staff skilled with its products, placing the company under pressure to produce human resources to fulfil its clients' needs.
[January 15, 2003, 13:31]
SAP plans modular upgrades
News These packages will address certain aspects of SAP applications, such as human resources or travel management, and customers will be able to choose whether to install them. It has been built so it can be embedded in different applications, such as...
[September 13, 2006, 16:40]
Computer crime treaty threatens human rights
News An international coalition of 28 human rights and civil liberties groups has called on the Council of Europe to alter its draft treaty on International cybercrime, warning that the agreement could violate the European Convention on Human Rights...
[October 19, 2000, 7:41]
$100 laptop: moving from a technical to a social debate.....cont.....
Talkback Let's not forget one of the greatest capacities of human kind: a child's ability to learn a language. My suggested keynotes would be from the 3 people I think at present have the most potential to shape human evolution: Kofi Anan, Al Gore and...
[November 13, 2006, 19:04]
