++[evolution] Trendspotter calls for evolutionary adaptable software systems | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com When you consider the quantity and diversity of models and philosophies available for software development, it's a wonder why many projects fail even when developers deliver on key criteria such as functionality, efficiency, reliability, and so on. There's even a ZDNet blog that chronicles IT project mishap after mishap. But observers are noticing that a major shift to how software systems are developed is underway, and it's less rigid, more adaptive and evolutionary. In a recent post on Toolbox.com, David Tow, an Australian author, engineer, and technologist with 20 years experience and a knack for describing future trends, isolates the seminal problem of how best to capture the requirements of a system. "It is the elephant in the room at almost every CIO seminar and conference," he writes. After discussing where we've been, Tow explains the confluence of today's forces that impact development: He then points out examples of the evolutionary approach in action:
Marshall Raymond Hawkins Biography Marshall Hawkins is currently head of the Jazz department at Idyllwild Arts Academy, a position he has held since its inception in 1985. He is also Music Director and co-founder of the Jazz in the Pines festival. Born in Washington, D.C. on July 14, 1939, Marshall won first place honors in a talent show playing upright piano at age 12. Marshall joined the Miles Davis quintet in 1968 and traveled throughout the United States. Marshall organized the Marshall Hawkins Quintet in 1971 and performed for ten years in the D.C. area. He moved to California in 1978 and joined Eddie Jefferson and Richie Cole. Marshall's live performances in the nineties include appearances with Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Pharoah Sanders and others.
Top 20 popular sites since 1996 Kinja is in read-only mode. We are working to restore service. I am constantly amazed that AOL is still a thing that exists. Flagged They own Engadget, Techcrunch, Huffington Post and dozens of other sites. In aggregate, that's a lot of traffic. ... oh yeah. Wisconsin Virtual School Spectrum: R&D Goes Global Microsoft moved up two slots, to ninth place, but even so it’s spending nearly a tenth less than the US $7.8 billion it spent in 2003, when it topped the leaderboard. In that period the company’s sales grew by 41 percent, which means that the ratio of R&D spending to sales—called R&D intensity—declined to 13.9 percent from 21.1 percent. Automaker Daimler dropped to 22nd from second place largely on the divestiture of Chrysler, which doesn’t appear on the list because it’s privately held. Siemens dropped to 19th place from fourth because of a 32.3 percent cut in R&D; this cut, however, appears to be just an artifact of the way it accounted for its joint venture with Nokia. In fact, Siemens reports that it increased its R&D spending by 300 million euros between 2006 and 2007. Fast-growing Google continued its ascent up the list, to number 59, increasing its spending by 73.7 percent, significantly more than the 56.5 percent growth in its sales.
News > North County -- The amazing Dr. Dante has seen it all “There's three sides to every story. My version, their version, and the truth.” – Dr. Ronald Dante, quoting an old adage. PAUMA VALLEY – Ronald Dante, or Ronald Pellar, or whatever his name really is, lives these days in a small mobile home off state Route 76. “I'm just an old guy with cancer now and I'm just trying to sell my flowers,” he told a reporter. But Dante is not just any old guy, but a prolific con man with a history that is almost impossible to believe. In the 1970s, he was convicted of trying to murder a rival hypnotist. A decade earlier he was actress Lana Turner's eighth husband. In the 1990s, he operated one of the greatest diploma-mill scams in U.S. history, although in his opinion it wasn't a scam at all. In the late 1990s, he was kidnapped off his million-dollar yacht anchored near Ensenada, taken to the United States, and sentenced to more than five years in federal prison on charges related to his permanent-makeup business. Dr. Turner remembered it differently.
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++[colaboration] Replacing R&D with Networked Innovators | The View from Harvard Business | BNET Last Updated Dec 4, 2007 2:04 PM EST Great companies were once known by the inventions developed in their R&D centers such as AT&T Bell Labs, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Xerox PARC. But in today's world, where innovators, designers, and powerful production partners are scattered across the globe, it's less important for companies to rely on home-grown products, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research partners in a new working paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. Fact is, the new skill you need today is the ability to identify, coordinate, and manage a group of far-flung vendors, partners, and manufacturing resources to help you think up and create new products. Take Boeing. "In our view, Boeing's source of competitive advantage is shifting; it is less and less related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines." © 2007 CBS Interactive Inc..
p0153-p0158.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive has a new look, new content and new features for 2013! SORA has been moved to a new platform that will allow the resource to grow and expand over time. Many of the SORA journal titles have been updated with additional articles, and several new ornithological titles have been added to the site. SORA now offers new features for users and will enable journal publishers to update the SORA repository directly, with little or no technical support. Special Note: We have received a number of inquiries about the new user account feature in SORA. All of these improvements have been needed for some time, and the UNM Libraries SORA team appreciates your collective patience; it has taken a little over a year to convert the entire SORA article holdings and prepare the new site for production. A summary of SORA’s new features and guidance on how to use them is provided below.
The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content There’s so much information online just begging to be curated: news, social media, images, video, websites… the list goes on. Reading great content from my favorite blogs and websites is one of my favorite down-time activities. It’s also an important part of my job as an IT Director because I need to stay on top of the latest trends, announcements and tech news. Just a few years ago, the tools I used to use for reading and consuming content were Google Reader, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious… you know all the big names. More recently I’ve discovered some great new tools to read and share my favorite content which I’ve included here in this list. Content Gathering and Personalized Newsfeeds Faveous – The place for everything you like.Trapit – Captures personalized content. iPad Curation Flipboard – Your social magazine.News360 – Next-generation news personalization and aggregation.persona/ – Everything you care about There’s more to this article!
Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Tech giants are spending heavily on research and development, but it's difficult to follow the bouncing return on investment ball. The research and development return topic was brought up by my ZDNet UK colleague Rupert Goodwins earlier this week. Rupert went on a tour of Microsoft Research in Cambridge and questioned whether R&D was the best use of the software giant's cash. The post also spurred a rebuttal. And in February Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer defended Microsoft's R&D spending and outlined the company's big bets. Ballmer said the time to invest is during a downturn. Rupert isn't so sure. At a Microsoft Research's open day at Cambridge recently, this line was promoted heavily in the keynote speech: fundamental research helps generate brand new technologies that give companies competitive advantages. Rupert was looking for something tangible. Gallery (right): What's brewing inside Microsoft Research? Why? You can certainly question Microsoft's approach. Tracking returns
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