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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 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]
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 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]
Release of EPC Standards Jump-Starts Auto-ID Development
White Papers More than 2,000 people are expected in Chicago on September 15 for the opening of the Auto-ID Center's EPC Executive Symposium. Excitement has been building in the retail industry, because the symposium will formally launch the first platform of...
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
Google researcher presents video Captcha
News A new technique for using video to gauge whether a website is being accessed by a human or a machine will be presented at a Google-hosted security symposium this week. Kluever and Zanibbi will present their paper on Friday at the Symposium On...
[July 13, 2009, 16:03]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Gartner: Analysts always get it right
Blog The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo for Spring 2008 kicked off on Monday. Held in the home of US trade shows, Las Vegas, around 2,000 delegates sat down on Monday to four days of analysis and future predictions along with perhaps a little gambling...
[April 8, 2008, 16:45]
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]
MAX Europe
Blog For the first time in Europe, Adobe is hosting its MAX developer symposium in Barcelona this week. Below are a few distilled key pointers from the keynotes, sessions, briefings and roundtables I’ve been dipping in to over the last two days.
[October 16, 2007, 11:30]
CA promises to mend its ways
News He still has a way to go, if the audience at GartnerGroup's Symposium/ITxpo in San Diego is anything to go by. Computer Associates (CA) has changed its strategy of purchasing other companies, and is taking action to mend its poor image with...
[May 2, 2002, 10:34]
