Absolutely fascinating (and harrowing) essay by Ross Anderson interviewing Nick Bostrom, the director of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, about what lies ahead for humanity. Specifically, the role technology could play if things go, well, badly: No rational human community would hand over the reins of its civilisation to an AI. Nor would many build a
Read More...If I had Tyson as my high school physics teacher, I might be a scientist today. I find him fascinating to listen to.
Read More...Check out Google Glass. It’s the next big thing: wearable, context-aware computing. Google’s doing this with Glass, Apple is chasing the same goal with its rumored smartwatch. This is quite literally the next web, surpassing the semantic web. It’s contextual computing, and everything’s headed here. If post-PC computing (iPads, tablets) was the last gold rush,
Read More...By All Accounts By: Steven Brenner and Shannon Roche In the world of banking, the ability to track the movement of funds into systems has always been a top priority. While computers have exponentially increased tracking and monitoring capabilities, the digital world has also introduced a great deal of additional complexity into the banking
Read More...From Marketwire: For the second year in a row, KLAS has named Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials best Financials/ERP software in its “2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services” report(i). The annual report, now in its 15th year, ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in nearly 100 market segments based on ratings from nearly 20,000 interviews
Read More...Hi everyone. Through some early hands-on testing, I have noted some features in PeopleSoft 9.2 that will be well-received and replace customizations that I have seen on various client projects. Oracle has an excellent blog series started as well, called 10 Innovations in PeopleSoft 9.2. I suggest you check that out. My thoughts that follow
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Read More...As an Event Summit Track Sponsor, we are pleased to invite you to attend the first annual Oracle Value Chain Summit, February 4-6, 2013 in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar with the Value Chain Summit, that’s OK: it’s an expanded and refocused version of the popular Maintenance Summit from years past. Instead of just
Read More...January 2, 2013 Strategically charting a path to success. MIPRO has spent years developing, refining and perfecting a proprietary methodology many now know as an agile, scalable, focused, efficient and cost-effective approach to PeopleSoft Implementations, Upgrades or Optimizations. We call it MIPRO MPower Methodology. A Proven Methodology, Predictable Results. The process of
Read More...MIPRO Featured in American Oil & Gas Reporter, November 2012 For large companies with numerous moving parts and pieces, asset management can present a constant challenge. However, implementing and effectively utilizing a comprehensive Asset Management solution will equip your organization with the proper tools to meet this challenge head-on. MIPRO, a Milford, Mich.-based consultancy
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