Another thing holding back the UK is the fact that financial firms, which are heavy users of technology, are wary of investing in IT firms because of the dot-com crash, the survey revealed. Based on a survey of 50 "technology influencers", the...
The group says computers will advance in particular biology, where they will be used to solve not just algorithms, as they are today, but predictive modelling and machine learning - where computers learn human processes to speed up research.
The annual Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey of more than 200,000 graduates shows that while the unemployment rate of IT students fell again this year to 10.3 per cent it is still substantially higher than the average of 6.2 per...
The software draws on tens of millions of digital images that are part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other sources, such as Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. Departing from tradition, Microsoft this year opened up the first day of its annual...
The quality of computer science graduates is falling, according to results from the exclusive silicon.com 2007 Skills Survey. Just a quarter of survey respondents agree or strongly agree with the statement 'computer science courses turn out high...
The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian...
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