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- Feeling organs via a display screen
- Computerized image analysis is used to extract information from images. It can be used in medical applications to determine the size of organs or to build 3-D models of organs before surgery. For example, a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden, has developed new technology to make easier to diagnose...
- Tags: Segmentation, 3D, Organ, Feedback, Visualization, Uppsala University, Image, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Monocular Video Foreground/Background Segmentation by Tracking Spatial-Color Gaussian Mixture Models
- This paper presents a new approach to segmenting monocular videos captured by static or hand-held cameras filming large moving non-rigid foreground objects. The foreground and background objects are modeled using Spatial-Color Gaussian Mixture Models SCGMM, and segmented using the graph cut algorithm, which minimizes a Markov random field energy function...
- Tags: Segmentation, Algorithm, Video, Modeling, Research & Development, Corporate Communications, Engineering, Business Operations, Marketing
- White papers 2006-11-30
- Using Customer Segmentation to Deliver Targeted IT Solutions
- Intel IT uses a consumer marketing technique called customer segmentation to provide the right IT solutions to the customers and increase productivity. Customer segmentation helps to understand needs, attitudes, behaviors, and the differences among Intel employees who use IT products and services. Applying segmentation data to the product planning process...
- Tags: Segmentation, Information Technology, Intel Corp., Intel IT, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Customer Segmentation by Using CALL SYMPUT, Arrays and DO Loops
- Customer grouping or segmentation is a common task in the financial sector. Some customers might have only one product while others might have multiple products. Identifying customers with correct products will help to improve the business in areas such as cross selling. SAS offers many ways not only to customize...
- Tags: Segmentation, Financial, Customer, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2005-03-09
- Better errors in 2005
- Preston Gralla has an interesting list of five things Microsoft won't do in 2005, but should. Worth a read, but one of the "should" items for Microsoft is also true of a great deal of open source software as well. Specifically, Gralla's advice to Microsoft to "introduce plain-English error...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, error code, segmentation, Preston Gralla, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-01-04
- Ceska Sporitelna Finds Customer Segmentation Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Ceska sporitelna, with more than 5 million customers and roots that reach back to 1825, became a part of the powerful Erste Bank group in 2000. Since then, the company has undergone a significant transformation and improvement in key activities. The company is now focused on improving its product offerings...
- Tags: Segmentation, Bank, SAS Institute, Marketing Research, Marketing
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- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- An anthropological view of SOA rituals
- An anthropological view of SOA ritualsSOA is not a distinct level of architecture“SOA is technology, of course, "No, it is not. It's not even necessarily *about* technology. One may apply SO principles to technology. One may apply SO principles to architecture. One may define an architecture for a technology project....
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Service Orientation, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken
- UPDATE: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers. Jeff Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, England recently published a research paper entitled "A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA", demonstrating how they've managed to attack the Microsoft's CAPTCHA used on...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp., Vladuz, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Photos: Visiting a Nike missile site
- At one time, there were more than 200 Nike missile sites in the U.S., each tasked with protecting a specific city. Today, the only one left is a restored site for tourists in the Marin Headlands, near San Francisco.The mascot of the Army''s Air Defense Artillery program was a bird...
- Tags: Nike Inc., Photograph, Missile, Missile Site, AJAX, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-23
- Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...
- Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issuesLet's find out.I'd like to know just what the similarities or lack there of will be in security issues when Linux replaces Windows as the OS of the people.Apple's dealing with this right nowTime to...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Word, Linux, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential
- Some of the big IT news over the weekend was the announcement that Forrester predicts that the Enterprise 2.0 space will be a $4.6 billion industry within 5 years. ZDNet's Larry Dignan had the full breakdown yesterday on Forresters bullish outlook while Dennis Howlett immediately took umbrage with...
- Tags: Software, Application, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Industry, Enterprise 2.0 Tool, Self-service, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Communication chips generated $36.6 bln in 2007
- The Communications Chip market generated estimated $36.6 bln in the year 2007. That revenue was generated by shipping an estimated 3.73 bln chips during the year, iLocus says. Texas Instruments leads the market earning around $6.6 bln and thus holding 18% of the communications chip market share. Other leaders in...
- Tags: Revenue, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- 2nd-generation Intel Classmates reviewed
- 2nd-generation Intel Classmates reviewedAlternative OSThis laptop looks good and rugged for its intended audience. However I feel Intel should allow the user to choose the installed OS such as linux, bsd etcIt will also serve as a good thin client to run software from a central serverhttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmhttp://www.nomachine.comCRE 2nd-generation Intel Classmates...
- Tags: CAD, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Classmate
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- GrowCut (exe)
- GrowCut is a masking plugin for Adobe Photoshop Family image editors, designed for everyone who deals with digital photos, both amateur photographers and professional designers. Advanced algorithms and intuitive user interface makes segmentation of even the most complex images quick and easy. With GrowCut 2.0 you can cutout an object...
- Tags: iPhotoSoft, GrowCut, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Engineering, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-31
- Classmates for the rest of us!
- Intel announced Wednesday that it will be offering its 2nd- and 3rd-generation Classmate PCs in the United States and Europe. This is a welcome change from the company's previous offerings only to emerging markets, leaving those of us who didn't live in Asia, Africa, or South America wishing for...
- Tags: OEM, Intel Corp., Classmates, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- MedINRIA (exe)
- MedINRIA allows to process and analyze a large variety of magnetic resonance MR images including anatomical MRI, functional MRI fMRI, and diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI). MedINRIA was initially developed for medical experts, but may be used by anyone curious about medical images. Practically, MedINRIA is a suite of software, each...
- Tags: 3D, Inria, Visualization, MedINRIA
- Software downloads 2008-03-17
- Hosting Data Center Networking With Vyatta
- This paper will show how Vyatta open-source software combined with off-the-shelf x86 hardware can be leveraged to perform most routing and firewall requirements in the hosting data center at a fraction of the cost of closed proprietary systems. While proprietary networking equipment vendors have created discrete hardware product categories and...
- Tags: Data Center, Performance, Network, Vyatta, Data Centers, Performance Management, Firewalls, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-03-10
- Sudoku ported to Android
- I've written a free Android version of Sudoku. It's very basic, but after I clean it up I hope it will serve as a good example to beginning Android programmers. Here's a screen shot: The source code and binaries can currently be found...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Theme, Eclipse, Documentation, Emulator, Android, Android Life Cycle, Android SDK, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
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