According to a recent Reuters article, the worlds of personal finance and computer gaming are increasingly co-mingling.
Earning degrees in finance and computer science from the University of Miami, 33-year-old CEO Joe Fernandez had the idea for Klout back in 2007 when he had to have surgery to correct his misaligned mandible.
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The evidence is equally clear that computer-using industries like finance, insurance, real-estate and other services have continued to lag in productivity growth.
Lockitron creators Cameron Robertson and Paul Gerhardt were both University of Colorado students -- studying history, economics and finance, and computer science respectively -- when they started playing with inventions.
In a bid to placate Airbus, the British government this week announced it would finance research into new computer-modelling techniques at several British universities, to help Airbus speed up product development by as much as 90%.
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My interest is that there could indeed be a good finance, as opposed to computer business, reason to do so.
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Even as the private world has eclipsed public markets, finance has been convulsed by a computer-enhanced frenzy of creativity.
Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).
Price Waterhouse aims to add hundreds of experts to its Japanese branch to handle a growing consulting practice in computer systems integration, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and international taxation.
Davis, Kumiega and Van Vliet point out that automated finance unites three professions financial engineers, software engineers and computer engineers but has no one taking ultimate responsibility.
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The Britons - a computer expert and his four bodyguards - were working in Baghdad's Iraqi Finance Ministry in May 2007 when they were surrounded by 40 gunmen disguised as policemen and driven off towards a Shia area.
The topic of supercomputing in finance might get more attention now that Cray has come out with a commercial computer.
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