An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust.
This type of programming is based on a set of Java APIs, although new technology in the latest version of Apache Hadoop, called YARN, allows other languages to be used.
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Glasses.com, a new venture from 1-800 Contacts, which in turn is a subsidiary of the big insurer Wellpoint, is set to unveil a new try-on technology in a couple of months that will let you see how dozens of pairs look on a 3-D rendering of your face.
Even before Sept. 11 set off a rush of antiterror technology research, Sandia and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) had the zany idea of using honeybees to stand in for humans when collecting traces of bioweapons and explosives.
The two-year research project is being funded by the Technology Strategy Board, a government agency set up to find innovative ways of using technology.
For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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Digital Publishing Suite is a set of turnkey hosted services and viewer technology that tightly integrates with Adobe Creative Suite 6 products and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Obscured behind a persistent set of misconceptions is a much more nuanced view of this critical workplace technology trend and the opportunities it offers to improve business productivity.
The ewe's birth in 1996 set off a firestorm of debate about the technology used to create her.
Some will require a set of simple tools, others more advanced technology.
Yet, the exact same technology also carries a set of intimately-associated liabilities, dangers we must recognize and respect if we are to do more good than harm.
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Leading international scientists and policy-makers then came together during the Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in July 2012 and put forward a set of recommendation to help establish such co-designed research, technology and policy agendas.
Speaking of solar efficiency, this week solar manufacturer Amonix announced that its concentrated photovoltaic technology has set a new efficiency record with a conversion rate of 33.5 percent.
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But beyond a set of enthusiastic early adopters, the use of technology in formal education remained largely stalled.
As a tactile set of symbols it is believed that the technology could also be used by fire-fighters to communicate with each other in smoke-filled buildings when hand or radio communication is not possible.
Two months later, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, which is responsible for EHR certification, issued a different set of rules, stating that hospitals have to certify their EHRs on 24 measures to meet requirements.
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Dr Robock, who carries out geoengineering research while taking an avowedly hostile approach to any suggestion of deploying the technology, has teamed up with climate modellers at other institutions to produce a set of options that could be run on a range of computer models.
This situation is exacerbated by two major technology trends that demand a new set of technical skills: cloud computing and big data.
"We are constantly striving to deliver the best possible customer experience for Cloud Player, and today we are offering our customers a significant set of new features, including scan and match technology and audio quality upgrade, " said Steve Boom, Vice President of Digital Music at Amazon.
Today, the TV you watch and interact with is a sophisticated ecosystem made up of a melange of technology including middleware, meta data, content discovery and content rights management technology that converges in your set top box, which in itself is a smarter piece of hardware than your TV.
We are also identifying a set of close partners who will bring critical elements of the technology stack needed for M2M solutions.
Or-in a true display of technology integration-viewers who were set up to use the department's videoconferencing system could ask their questions live, as if they were in the same room as the speaker.
Back in the early 1980s, this media guru drummed up some money from a lot of publishing, entertainment and technology companies and set up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Working with internal and external experts in battery technology, we have proposed a comprehensive set of solutions designed to significantly minimize the potential for battery failure while ensuring that no battery event affects the continued safe operation of the airplane, " said Conner.
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Mr. Piper, 38 years old, a director of sales operations at a major information technology firm, would grab a beer from the fridge, set up a conference call, kick back and wait for his colleagues to join in and talk about work or raise problems, he said.
But what concerns your correspondent about this chapter is that it spends most of its time describing an apparently cheap, simple solution to climate change: a clever idea fermented in a small set of laboratories at Intellectual Ventures, a firm run by Nathan Myhrvold, who was once Microsoft's chief technology officer.
Formerly, new technology was accessible only to those with a sophisticated set of skills.
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Other causes supported by Lucas include his own educational foundation set up to help bring about a technology-enriched educational system of the future.
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The government has now set up a panel, led by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and including biologists and palaeontologists, to oversee any changes to science books.
If you'll recall, the behemoth is the first Dell monitor to sport the emerging DisplayPort technology, and it also offers a fairly impressive set of other connectivity options, including dual DVI ports, HDMI, VGA, S-Video, component, and composite.
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