WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009
When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.
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VIDEO:   Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 13 Nov 2009
BPEL is an XML-based language that defines the execution of a business process. It is used to implement a particular flow through computer services. Now an OASIS standard, BPEL grew out of separate initiatives at IBM, Microsoft, and BEA to create an orchestration language for business processes.
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VIDEO:   Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 13 Nov 2009
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a newer language but has been the focus of much attention from business and IT. As business processes grow more complex, BPMN provides a structured way to organize them. But it is important to know the basics before selecting a BPMN solution.
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TECHNICAL ARTICLE:   Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009
In this 3rd part of the <i>Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games</i> series, you'll learn how to give your agents higher orders of intelligence. The agents can already deal with the immediate situation they find themselves in; now you are working toward artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with broader goals and the bigger picture.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009
This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs’ efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led service initiatives.
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TECHNICAL ARTICLE:   Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 30 Apr 2008
This worksheet is intended to function as a checklist of the most important areas to consider when researching a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
This whitepaper explains the advantages of reusing open source components in projects implemented by agile development teams, discusses the issues and risks that must be managed, and highlights the benefits organizations can receive by leveraging open source components.
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TECHNICAL ARTICLE:   Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009
This article aims at answering the question, "Is parallel programming hard?" You'll take a look at the distinctions between parallel and sequential programming as well as the three main problems programmers face when it comes to parallel programming.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
This paper examines arguments for and against security awareness training and education, approaches to integrating social approaches to security, and user-friendly approaches to teaching computer hygiene to mixed audiences.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly.
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JOURNAL ARTICLE:   Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009
This article offers an in-depth overview of the just-released Intel Media SDK, an API that offers a single-source approach for targeting a broad range of Intel architectures.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
Black Duck provides a framework that not only allows your software development organization to benefit from open source but also allows other enterprise stakeholders—including legal, IT, security, export and purchasing personnel—to access timely and relevant information to effectively manage business risks.
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TECHNICAL ARTICLE:   Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009
It's amazing how many books on parallel computing use the term parellelism without clearly defining it. In this technical article, Charles Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, provides a brief introduction to this theory.
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