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OpenOffice.org Development Boosted By Arab And Israeli Collaboration
Talkback The worst outcome of the West's domination of technology is the fact that computers naturally work from left to right. Had the Turks won the Battle of Vienna in 1683, or had the Moors won the Battle of Granada in 1492, right-to-left languages would...
[November 24, 2004, 19:57]
Dragon Releases New Voice Technology
News Dragon Systems has upped the ante for speech recognition systems, claiming a 95 percent accuracy rate after just five minutes' training with version 4 of its Naturally Speaking software. The new version of Naturally Speaking has been localised for...
[September 9, 1999, 15:57]
Representing Social Structures In UML
White Papers Engineering such systems is most naturally approached as an extension of object-oriented systems engineering. In particular, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be naturally extended to support the distinctive requirements of multi-agent systems.
[July 23, 2004, 0:00]
Integrating HTN Planning And Semantic Web Ontologies For Efficient Information Integration
White Papers The paper discusses how many Semantic Web applications will need access to closed-world information, but the nature of the Semantic Web makes it naturally an open-world. This paper also discusses how LCW statements can be added to SHOE naturally...
[January 12, 2005, 23:00]
Office Open XML Could Stymie OpenDocument's Progress
Talkback Probably okay, at the start, but naturally would change. okay at first, but naturally would change in time to ensure their monopolistic standard. It would be a natural move for M$ to do everything in its power to stop ODF.
[December 5, 2005, 12:58]
The ZDNet UK News Mail Room
News Still waiting for a Naturally Speaking sample. Point 1: Dragon System's Naturally Speaking (Preferred Edition) is an outstanding voice recognition program. Got an opinion? Want to add some news of your own?
[January 11, 1999, 6:36]
Hire Talent And Passion Over Skill And Experience
News By making sure that you hire people who will be naturally fired up with passion by their work, you will find an incredible source of natural super-performance power. I have found that people do their best when they are doing things that they...
[November 12, 2002, 10:40]
Apple G4s Could Sleep Their Way To Success
News Apple naturally wanted to keep future issues for laptops quiet at this briefing -- naturally because it was, after all, the G4 launch. Thursday's launch of translucent-packaging specialist Apple's new G4 in the UK was pretty run-of-the-mill stuff...
[September 9, 1999, 9:55]
Voice Recognition Software Is Ready For Real Use
News If speaking is something you do naturally, using VRS can probably save you some time. On the other hand, say "go to sleep" using your natural speech pattern if you want the words to appear as text in a document.The more naturally you dictate, the...
[August 29, 2002, 15:57]
Application Security Starts With The Developer
White Papers Building secure applications requires a certain mindset that doesn't come naturally to most developers. This paper tries to get logic correct and algorithms working, and build the application so that it does fundamentally what it's supposed to do.
[July 13, 2004, 0:00]
The Cell Phone Three Horse Race - Google Vs. Symbian Vs. MS Mobile
Talkback Naturally the open-source nature of Android presents a unique flavor of potential mobile security vulnerabilities, but nonetheless this is a good thing. Naturally we are at the beginning stages of an industry revitalization.
[November 9, 2007, 7:19]
A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots.
Talkback Microsoft have made fortunes by locking people into using their OS and their applications, so naturally they don't want truly open standards for file formats destroying their monopoly. Thank goodness that another large company (IBM) has stood up to...
[May 11, 2007, 15:53]
Time To Talk-up Speech Recognition
Blog Comment I'm a 69 years old silver surfer and am still regularly using version 4 of Dragon Naturally Speaking and wouldn't be without it. It works great in its own window and 'copy and paste' moves the text into different applications, as it has done in...
[October 5, 2007, 12:05]
Is IT A Good Career Choice?
Talkback Unless you are naturally good at IT keep away. I would have said this We don't need scholars, we don't need book readers. We don't want people in it for the money. These people come in, take good jobs and ruin the chances of others who are...
[August 9, 2005, 14:35]
Information Lifecycle Management With Documentum And EMC
White Papers Information has a natural lifecycle, and the required service levels for managing information change naturally over time. By recognizing this dynamic, organizations can get maximum value from information at every stage for the lowest possible cost...
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
Windows Takes Full-year Server Market Lead
Talkback With windoze in the lead one would ,naturally, assume the infection of trojans, malware, spyware, and virus's will keep pace.
[February 23, 2006, 12:26]
Standards-Based Platforms: The Path To ATCA Applications
White Papers The problem of delivering and supporting complex network elements for the telecom market has fallen naturally into two distinct development phases: system integration and element creation. In the system integration phase, industry-standard...
[January 3, 2006, 23:00]
Windows Admin 'feature' Poses Latest Hazard
Talkback In case you happen to use the messenger service for what it's supposed to be used for, disabling it naturally is a problem. But unless the spammer is inside your own network, simply blocking ports 137, 138, and 139 from the outside world is all...
[August 21, 2003, 14:20]
Primal-Dual Based Distributed Algorithms For Vertex Cover With Semi-Hard Capacities
White Papers Capacity constraints arise naturally in distributed computing and computer networking. E.g.the scatternet-formation problem of ad hoc Bluetooth networks asks for a small dominating set where each node in the set dominates at most 7 vertices.
[September 16, 2005, 0:00]
Aspects Of Network Design
White Papers This paper discusses the multicommodity buy-at-bulk network design problem, a problem that occurs naturally in the design of telecommunication and transportation net-works. An underlying graph is given and associated with each edge of the graph, a...
[January 11, 2008, 23:00]
