In 2009, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the company's leading web application platform for organizations, SharePoint, has exceeded 1 billion dollars in profits with over 100 million licenses sold. I was in the audience when he said that and couldn't help but reflect on how far SharePoint has come in less than a decade. In the...
Image synthesis, or rendering, is a field of transformation: it changes
geometry and physics into meaningful images. Because the most popular
algorithms frequently change, it is increasingly important for researchers
and implementors to have a basic understanding of the principles of image
synthesis. Focusing on theory, Andrew...
Just so you’re clear: it was not my idea to give a talk to Microsoft Research. I had learned embarrassingly little about computer science in my 18 years of life, and the last thing I wanted to do is to have that exposed in front of a bunch of genius PhDs in MSR. But my manager thought it’d be a great...
Welcome to the Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Advanced
Software Engineering and Its Applications (ASEA 2010) – one of the partnering events
of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information
Technology (FGIT 2010).
ASEA brings together researchers from academia and industry...
BECAUSE YOU ARE READING THIS, I assume that you share my interest for Microsoft SharePoint. In
my case it is more than an interest, it is a passion! For more than 30 years, I have been working with
computers, from assembler programming to complex software solutions. For more than 10 years my
whole world was e - mail (my personal car...
An academic dynasty has come together to write an excellent textbook on information retrieval.
Stefan Buttcher, Charles Clarke, and Gordon Cormack make up three generations of stellar
information retrieval researchers with over fifty years of combined experience. Buttcher was
Clarke's doctoral student, and Clarke was Cormack's...
By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.
In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business,...
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“In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell presents an important idea without any ‘how to.’ Now Bertrand Cesvet provides the ‘how to’ you need to create ‘Tipping Points’ for your business and success. This book is a compelling presentation of a powerful idea. This is how the...
This book is based on a highly successful joint project between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the auspices of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. The project brings together communities of highly diverse individuals to share and learn how to be enterprising. It has run 17 times with the...
You have always dreamed of skydiving, imagining yourself in a free
fall, high above the earth, parachute ready to open with the pull of a
rip cord.
One day you decide to give it a try. You drive to the local airport
and quickly spot the skydiving center at the edge of a wide airfield,
far across a parking lot...
Algebra is accessible and engaging with this popular text from Charles "Pat" McKeague! ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA is infused with McKeague's passion for teaching mathematics. With years of classroom experience, he knows how to write in a way that you will understand and appreciate. McKeague's attention to detail and...
