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Symposium survivor
Blog So, here’s my top 10 guide to being a symposium survivor: With some of the bigger software conference and events just around the corner many of us are braced for a week or two of technical briefings, keynotes and - wait for it - ‘birds of a feather...
[March 28, 2008, 11:04]
Symposium survivor
Blog Comment I hope more of these conferences begin using the speaker submission system similar to Agile 2008. I've learned a lot just by reading the speaker proposal submissions and have a much better sense of what to expect long before I decide on going.
[March 28, 2008, 18:38]
Symposium survivor
Blog Comment Hey thanks JW, Gulp! I hope I don't get held personally responsible by Sun for all their attending journos not being able to get WiFi access now :-) just kidding! I too have kicked myself for being so busy sometimes that I've ended up reading the...
[March 28, 2008, 11:36]
Symposium survivor
Blog Comment Excellent checklist, Adrian, thanks. Of course, I have a couple of observations and comments: I would combine your points 1 and 10, and add "Get out of the conference center and explore the local area".
[March 28, 2008, 11:28]
Science curriculum 'boring', says industry minister
News Speaking on Wednesday at a symposium on IT and healthcare, Margaret Hodge told ZDNet UK that "encouraging enough people to follow science subjects is an enormous challenge", and that it was proving difficult to attract suitable teachers and "make...
[January 24, 2007, 13:27]
Google's Schmidt sees future in enterprise
News Enterprise is a huge priority for the management team and me personally," Schmidt said on Wednesday in an onstage interview at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. Google might not be at the core of every company's operations, but...
[October 22, 2009, 14:10]
'Fluid' software needed for agile businesses - Gartner
News To achieve the required agility, software must become more fluid and be able to adapt effectively to new demands without needing constant redesign," a leading analyst told delegates to the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004.
[November 17, 2004, 8:20]
NHS planning major telehealth rollout
News Speaking to industry figures at a symposium on IT and healthcare in London, Granger also confirmed that "things going into people's homes is new scope", requiring additional budgeting beyond the original remit of the NHS's National Programme for IT.
[January 24, 2007, 17:12]
Nortel Networks Case Study: Call Centre Solutions
White Papers The company opted to further develop their call centre services around a Nortel Networks Symposium Call Centre Solution. Together with Symposium Web Solutions, the system enables the creation of a fully web-enabled, virtual call centre, with staffs...
[October 30, 2004, 0:00]
Analysts: Senior staff pose data-loss risk
News It's likely that people higher up in an organisation will be the ones who own the more sophisticated devices, and these are the types of users who resent having security imposed on them," said Jay Heiser, research vice president and security...
[November 22, 2007, 15:27]
Chip designers voyage to voltage island
News Intel will also present several papers at the VLSI Symposium, outlining ways to increase the clock speed of its PC processors while containing leakage, the amount of power that slips past a transistor when it is turned off.
[June 10, 2002, 12:18]
Intel readies massive multicore processors
News A paper at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, also in San Diego, details a hardware scheduler that will split up computing jobs among various cores on a chip. A paper outlining the issue was released at the VLSI Circuits...
[June 14, 2007, 13:32]
Protocol holds out faster Web services promise
News Better coordination will be required to meet that demand, and this protocol provides that," said Park, who presented his research this week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Symposium on Applications and the Internet in...
[January 31, 2003, 16:18]
Smile like you mean it: developing for the commercial web 2.0 world
Blog I’m off to Brighton next month to attend a web development symposium with a large software company famous for producing a popular operating system beginning with W. This is good news as far as I am concerned.
[August 28, 2008, 14:46]
Analysts lament security 'arms race'
News Security has dropped off the list of priorities for chief information officers due to an inability to calculate the effect it has on the bottom line, and a lack of foresight on the part of some security professionals, according to Gartner's...
[November 21, 2007, 16:22]
The Future for Rich Internet Applications
Blog I’ve just come back from Adobe’s MAX Europe developer symposium in Barcelona. Aside from a bad case of ‘convention food overload’ - there’s only so many cold octopus canapés I can take you know - the content was really pretty compelling.
[October 18, 2007, 11:16]
IT managers told: Don't block social networking
News Analysts at the Gartner Symposium in Florida on Monday told attendees that corporate computing departments should not block social networking, and that security should not lock down communications with the outside world.
[October 20, 2009, 9:06]
Gartner to CIOs: 'You're in business, not IT'
News To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said in the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney. None of you are in IT; all of you are in business," said Andy Kyte...
[November 22, 2007, 9:18]
They can't be serious...
Blog Writing up this morning's appearance at the London Telemedicine Symposium by the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge, I left out a couple of choice quotes (we try to keep our stories focused, you see). Aside from claiming that people are comfortable with the...
[January 24, 2007, 13:50]
Curse of the Cowboy Coders
Blog I am at a software symposium after all, so it’s no big surprise. I seem to mixing with a huge number of software engineers this week. But my word, what an opinionated crowd you can run into sometimes.
[August 7, 2007, 14:49]
