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How to run Internet Explorer securely

Here are the key configuration changes you can make to disable various features and reduce the attack surface in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. This guide provides a walk-through of IE 6.0 but applies to the latest IE 7.0 as well. (This guidance was prepared and distributed by Will Dorman, vulnerability...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Software Engineering Institute, CERT, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, vulnerability, attack, analyst, Microsoft Corp.

Image galleries 2007-06-09

Software Risk Management

This paper presents a holistic vision of the risk-based methodologies for Software Risk Management SRM developed at the Software Engineering Institute SEI. SRM methodologies address the entire life cycle of software acquisition, development, and maintenance. This paper is driven by the premise that the ultimate efficacy...

Tags: Software, Methodology, Software Engineering Institute, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management

White papers 2001-03-03

Best Training Practices Within the Software Engineering Industry

This white paper documents the results of a benchmarking study to identify the best training practices and support training initiatives within the software engineering community. In the first phase, paper collected and analyzed information from a number of organizations to create a broad picture of training as it currently...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Institute, Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Development Tools, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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Reuse-Based Software Development Methodology

Software has been reused in applications development ever since programming started. However, the reuse practices have mostly been ad hoc, and the potential benefits of reuse have never been fully realized. Most of the available software development methodologies do not explicitly identify reuse activities. The Application of Reusable Software Components...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering Institute, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management

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SEI Investments Sales Productivity Up Almost 300% With Sage CRM SalesLogix

SEI Investments, a global technology and investment services firm, needed a flexible CRM solution that would support its highly complex sales process. After examining several solutions, from contact managers to enterprise-size packages, the company decided Sage CRM SalesLogix from Sage Software was the right solution. Sage CRM SalesLogix has a...

Tags: Sage CRM SalesLogix, Investment, Software Engineering Institute, Sage Software, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

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News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Study: Silent patching best for securing browsers

Google's decision to silently update the Chrome browser -- without the user's knowledge or consent --  has put the company at the head of the pack when it comes to securing modern Web browsers. That's the big takeaway from a new study that argues that silent...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Safari, Benefit, Internet, Opera Software ASA, Ryan Naraine, Security, Web Browser, Web Browsers

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Supercomputer performs prostate surgery

A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...

Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-02

A robotic brain-computer interface

California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...

Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-21

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

Bar code sales tool is failing campus test

Bar code sales tool is failing campus testRE: Bar codes sales tool is failing campus test.The last sentence says it all:[b]Why should I pay for advertising???[/b]I agree!!!!! It amounts to just another way the wireless carriers can [i]nickle and dime you to death.[/i]RE: Bar code sales tool is failing...

Tags: Games, Sales force management, Bar code sales tool

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

A robotic taxi named robuCAB

According to ICT Results, a EU-funded project named Embounded 'has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory goals, of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.' One example is the robuCAB, a '4 seats automated people mover' developed by a French company and built from a 4 wheel-drive electric chassis with...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Embedded System, robuCAB, Robosoft, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-12

A necklace that checks the pills you take

I'm sure you've already failed to take some pills ordered by your physician. In fact, one in three adults forgets to take their medicines, and for lots of different reasons. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a solution for this problem which costs billions of dollars...

Tags: Patient, Device, Sensor, Pill, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-08

Virtual factories under your fingers

We've seen lots of multi-touch tables recently, but many of them were designed for gamers. The one developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany is designed for engineers. This Multi-Touch table screen allows to inspect virtual factories. As 'many industrial processes involve reactions in places that are difficult to see...

Tags: Finger, Camera, Coperion Group, Productivity, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Epicor Software Case Study: The Manufacturing Institute

As a non-profit organization, over 13,000 manufacturers have benefited from the proven, hands-on productivity and skills improvements that The Manufacturing Institute delivers. To this end, The Manufacturing Institute formed a cross-functional team to look at business process re-engineering alongside the deployment of a new business system. By mid-2004, this committee...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Manufacturing, Sales Strategy, Operational Planning, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, Sales, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2007-12-21

Commercial brain computer systems are coming

All over the world, systems that directly connect silicon circuits to brains are under development, and some are nearly ready for commercial applications, according to a new report from the World Technology Evaluation Center and announced by a news release of the University of Southern California USC. Some of the...

Tags: University Of Southern California, Panel, Report, Computer, BCI, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Collaborating in virtual environments

Engineers have been using collaborating tools in virtual reality environments for almost 20 years. Now, South Korean and Japanese researchers have tried to compare different experiences of users working together using the Virtual Dollhouse application where two people working together have to build a virtual dollhouse using virtual building blocks,...

Tags: Network, Environment, Object, Physics Law, Virtual Reality, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Stopping failure in its tracks

Some IT projects become a negative self-fulfilling prophecy, gaining a drive toward failure that seems inevitable. How can one interrupt this downward spiral before it's too late? In an article called Surviving Failure, Watts S. Humphrey, founder the Software Process Program of the Software Engineering Institute at...

Tags: Failure, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-10-28

Teaching Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: An Experience Report From the Manaus Research and Development Pole

The number of microprocessors and microcontrollers being applied to modern computational systems is growing exponentially. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find engineers with the necessary skills for developing software for such devices. In fact, the creation of official undergraduate courses to fulfill this modern demand proved not to be...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Embedded System, Training, IEEE, Workforce Management, Research & Development, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Business Operations

White papers 2007-10-13