On Friday, the British Education and Training Technology conference and exhibition gets under way at London Olympia. Schools recognise the educational value of the internet, for example, but then get bogged down in how to protect children from...
These methods are described in three papers. The third method, called Adaptive PageRank, relies on the fact that lower-ranking sites tend to be computed faster than higher-ranking ones. The Stanford team presented its paper on these Google...
Also at the conference, the company is expected to announce version 15 of its relational database, called Adaptive server Enterprise (ASE). At the company's customer conference in Orlando, Florida, Sybase executives plan to discuss a mobile...
On the business side, in particular, analysts criticised HP's current "Adaptive Enterprise" effort, which has been to sell itself as a less proprietary version of IBM. Frank Gillett, an analyst at Forrester Research, said: "The Adaptive Enterprise...
This approach has recently been popular among higher education administrators, who cannot assess the quality of published papers but rely on how often other academics cite them. Before we get too carried away by the alleged novelty of our...
And adaptive software is being produced and let loose. Even if we do nothing more than continue to build at the current rate, and keep bolting on more and more sophisticated sensors, plus adaptive software, then something will happen.