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Computer programmer learns it really is a beautiful mind |
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Written by Mark Toljagic
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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
Our Coordinator Iqbal Khan has been featured in a newspaper! Read the article below:
Mohammad Iqbal Khan is part of a vast army of researchers that has been pursuing the Holy Grail of the computer world: Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is the ability of man-made machines to duplicate intelligent behaviour, such as decision-making, planning and natural language. Computers and electronic devices can do amazing things these days, but critics of AI say that no actual comprehension by the AI computer has taken place, rendering the effort moot. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 08 September 2007 )
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How to ... fix a computer |
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Written by Guy Browning
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
When your computer fails, it's like being returned instantly to the 70s. Post Offices, record players and board games become important again.You then have three options: the first is to buy a new computer; the second is to embrace a preindustrial lifestyle; the third is to attempt to fix it. Of the three the last is the most expensive, most stressful and least likely to succeed. The most effective way to fix a computer is to restart it. This is the technical equivalent of a detox weekend. It's important to switch the power right off, and that doesn't mean pushing only the button on the front, it means shutting down the power to the whole street. |
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12 IT skills that employers can't say no to |
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Written by Mary Brandel, Computerworld
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
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Have you spoken with a high-tech recruiter or professor of computer science lately? According to observers across the country, the technology skills shortage that pundits were talking about a year ago is real (see "Workforce crisis: Preparing for the coming IT crunch"). "Everything I see in Silicon Valley is completely contrary to the assumption that programmers are a dying breed and being offshored," says Kevin Scott, senior engineering manager at Google and a founding member of the professions and education boards at the Association for Computing Machinery. "From big companies to start-ups, companies are hiring as aggressively as possible." Many recruiters say there are more open positions than they can fill, and according to Kate Kaiser, associate professor of IT at Marquette University in Milwaukee, students are getting snapped up before they graduate. In January, Kaiser asked the 34 students in the systems analysis and design class she was teaching how many had already accepted offers to begin work after graduating in May. Twenty-four students raised their hands. "I feel sure the other 10 who didn't have offers at that time have all been given an offer by now," she says. |
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Written by Rose Tamburri
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
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January 2007
Universities faced sharp criticism at a recent conference over their reluctance to recognize the growing number of baccalaureate and applied undergraduate degrees granted by community colleges. The day-long conference, held in Toronto in early November, brought together more than 100 representatives of universities, colleges, provincial quality-assessment councils, academics and others to discuss degree recognition in Canada and the merits of creating a national degree-accreditation system. The conference was organized by the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Higher Education Research and Development and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education in response to the proliferation of new degree programs offered by colleges and other institutions that aren’t universities. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 July 2007 )
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