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Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art

Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...

Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Topos (exe)

Topos R2 supports the work of design and environmental planning professionals such as architects, landscape architects and environmental engineers. Topos R2 is a software tool with unique features and functionalities for three-dimensional (3D) site design, visualization and experimentation. It enables users to combine existing landscape, construction site or environment features...

Tags: 3D, Visualization, Experimentation, Topos R2

Software downloads 2007-11-16

Predicting the Performance of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Scaled-Down Replicas

Experimentation with mobile ad hoc network testbeds is preferred to simulations for performing high fidelity testing. But, at the same time, realistic experimentation with large-scale network testbeds is more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. To side- step some of these problems several researchers, have recently suggested experimentation on scaled-down replicas and...

Tags: University Of Southern California, Performance, Mobile, Network, Experimentation, Replica, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-29

Mobile Emulab: A Robotic Wireless and Sensor Network Testbed

Simulation has been the dominant research methodology in wireless and sensor networking. When mobility is added, real-world experimentation is especially rare. However, it is becoming clear that simulation models do not sufficiently capture radio and sensor irregularity in a complex, real-world environment, especially indoors. Unfortunately, the high labor and equipment...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Experimentation, University Of Utah, Simulation, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-04-01

Threat Hierarchy

I used to do a lot of breakfast seminars. Well, I still do a lot of breakfast seminars. But I used to have a slide that depicted the threat hierarchy. It was a list from low threat to high threat. I did not create it. I am sure...

Tags: Information Warfare, Hacktivism, Experimentation

Blog posts 2005-10-10

The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Collaborative and Cooperative Learning Environment for Web-Based Experimentation

Numerous tools have been developed for supporting the collaboration between students in education, tools that mainly include facilities for sharing documents and enabling discussions. However, these environments do not emphasize the use of facilities that sustain collaborative work in the framework of remote experimentation carried out by a group of...

Tags: Web, Environment, Experimentation, Springer Science+Business Media, Productivity

White papers 2005-07-02

Spreadsheet-Aided Numerical Experimentation: Analytic Formula for Fibonacci Numbers

Spreadsheet representations of recurrences allow numerical experimentation with potential analytic solutions to those recurrences. This paper uses a very simple recurrence for which the analytic solution is quite obvious when one examines the values generated by the recurrence, and then examines another recurrence for which the solution is not obvious.

Tags: Solution, Experimentation, Spreadsheet, Productivity

White papers 2005-05-07

FranceTelecom R&D White Paper on SAT+WiFi Experiment

This white paper describes a bi-directional broadband access composed of a satellite link coupled to Wifi access developed by FranceTelecom in order to provide high bit rate access to areas not covered by terrestrial ADSL technologies. About 10 experimentations have been launched in France in rural environment, providing IP access...

Tags: IP, Experimentation, France Telecom, Satellite, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2004-11-04

Additional Resources

Helpdesks and productivity

Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...

Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

ASACAMP - ASA Lab Camp

Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsBased on our Cisco SNAF and SNAA courses, our exclusive, lab-based course is designed to provide you with the most ASA-based lab experience in 5 days...

Tags: Security Appliance, Lab, Cisco Systems Inc., Security

Training 2008-06-01

Bubble thinking

This story from Don Dodge is almost guaranteed to get the bubblehead bar-room investment experts speculating about whether we are in an investment bubble and whether it is in what Don describes as stage two where: Stage Two is more dangerous. Many people agree that we are in a...

Tags: Advertisement, Bubble, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-27

First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta

Since I'm testing the viability of running Ubuntu on a number of platforms, and paving the way to shift from Internet Explorer to Firefox 3.0, I might as well take a look at the viability of abandoning Microsoft Office and making the leap to OpenOffice.org. Check out the OpenOffice.org...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Document, Launch, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Beta, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Can Deep Green help a combat commander?

University of Southern California USC researchers are developing several parts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Deep Green program. Their efforts are intended to help commanders on the battlefield to anticipate enemy moves. 'The system interweaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify...

Tags: Program, Battlefield, DARPA, Corporate Governance, Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" system

Why I won't be buying a "Hackint0sh" systemHow Soon We ForgetEven WITH Apple consent and lots of sales Power Computing and its Mac clone line is long gone. Apple does not need to disable hackintoshes; benign neglect will do the job quite well, thank you.Putting it another way, if one...

Tags: Professional development, Blogging, Psystar, Apple Inc., career, Hackint0sh, PC, science experiment

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008

The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today Wednesday, but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops. With my colleague Tom Heath one of the co-chairs, a paper pdf from colleagues Rob Styles, Nadeem Shabir and the absent...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-22

The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media

The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social mediaMaybe the root problem is......The seemingly total inability to spell or proof read? This blog is unreadable on its face apart from the blather of whatever the argument might be -- "argingerging," "ligs anogs," "chaineasinleasing hhuge," "Onoblem. Onlat can retrocan." Is this insider...

Tags: poverty, social media, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, incoherence, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

Squaring the cloud

Hosting your application in the cloud got a lot easier yesterday — but there are still some gaps to fill for hosted application providers. Referring to Amazon's introduction of persistent storage volumes to its EC2 cloud computing service, Rightscale CEO Thorsten Von Eicken declared "clearly the cloud has just squared...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Storage Volume, Storage, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Seesmic, Twhirl, Newsgang: whereto for RSS?

Yesterday's announcement that Seesmic has acquired Twhirl is no surprise. Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic was muttering something about it when we met last month but asked me to keep quiet. What is far more interesting to me is the long term impact on desktop client applications like Twhirl to...

Tags: Twitter, Twhirl, Video App, Goodness, RSS, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?No, seriouslyStrategies and visions are for those who need to get somewhere. Microsoft doesn't want to go somewhere with the desktop, they are [i]there[/i], now. They own the desktop, just as they own the browser and messaging spaces.The only effort required...

Tags: Desktops, desktop, MSFT, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-04-01