HP signs BT as Adaptive Enterprise unfolds

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HP: The Adaptive Enterprise that can't
adapt

HP: The Adaptive Enterprise that can't
adapt 08/13/2004 02:42 PM
Opinion SAP hardly to blame

HP Views Adaptive Enterprise As 'Uber
OS'

HP Views Adaptive Enterprise As 'Uber
OS' 11/11/2003 05:40 PM
The company ramps up its utility computing offerings with the help of an SAP partnership and the acquisition of Persist Technologies.

HP customers still searching for the
adaptive enterprise

HP customers still searching for the
adaptive enterprise 05/05/2004 08:21 AM
ZDNet UK May 5 2004 12:38PM GMT

HP invokes Adaptive Enterprise mantra

HP invokes Adaptive Enterprise mantra 08/16/2004 10:31 AM
Hewlett-Packard will detail enhancements to its virtualization products, the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system, and its AlphaServers this week during its HP World 2004 conference in Chicago.

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1
for Panther

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1
for Panther 01/07/2004 06:45 PM
Sybase today announced that Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.1, the latest release of the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS), is now available for Mac OS X Panther...

Q&A: HP's Todd DeLaughter on the
adaptive enterprise

Q&A: HP's Todd DeLaughter on the
adaptive enterprise 08/05/2004 05:37 PM
Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager of the Management Software Organization at Hewlett-Packard, spelled out the strategy behind the adaptive enterprise and spoke about the company's direction in the coming years.

webslingerZ Releases smartASK 2.0, Signs
New Enterprise Customers

webslingerZ Releases smartASK 2.0, Signs
New Enterprise Customers 07/26/2004 02:22 AM
Today webslingerZ released version 2.0 of its smartASK survey software. In addition, the company announced the signing of new enterprise customers including Boeing, Nortel Networks, and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

Apple's Mouth Says 'No' To The
Enterprise, Yet All Signs Point To 'Yes'

Apple's Mouth Says 'No' To The
Enterprise, Yet All Signs Point To 'Yes' 01/24/2004 10:21 AM
The truth is, Apple cannot survive by just feeding off its installed base, and the company knows it. By Ephraim Schwartz (InfoWorld via MyAppleMenu)

Pixar's Future Unfolds

Pixar's Future Unfolds 05/07/2004 08:57 AM
Pixar delivers another solid quarter and another shot at a brighter future.

Art Unfolds in a Search for Keywords

Art Unfolds in a Search for Keywords 06/16/2004 09:02 PM
A Chicago-based computer scientist has created a high-tech artwork that explores how an Internet search can resemble the psychological process of free association.

VP Unfolds Microsoft's Roadmap

VP Unfolds Microsoft's Roadmap 06/14/2004 07:03 AM
In an eWEEK interview, Microsoft's new VP for server and tools marketing, Andy Lees, discusses server integration and more.

In Max Payne 2, the bullets fly and the
story unfolds

In Max Payne 2, the bullets fly and the
story unfolds 01/25/2004 01:52 AM
Boston Globe Jan 25 2004 6:03AM GMT

Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds
Digitally

Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds
Digitally 04/14/2004 10:28 PM
As the epistolary novel comes of digital age, a new literature captures the primal urge behind instant-message patter.

IBM unfolds service-oriented
architecture offerings

IBM unfolds service-oriented
architecture offerings 04/21/2004 05:06 PM
IBM is touting a new service-oriented architecture that it said can help customers reuse parts of their IT systems and combine them in ways that can boost business flexibility.

Microsoft Unfolds Its Windows Server
Road Map

Microsoft Unfolds Its Windows Server
Road Map 05/18/2004 01:31 PM
A Microsoft Corp. executive last week cleared up what had been a murky Windows Server plan, affirming release dates of 2005 for a product update code-named R2 and 2007 for the next major software release, known as Longhorn. Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Server division, said the company wants to be consistent with the product's release cycle. Plans call for a major release of Windows Server roughly every four years and an incremental update two to two and a half years after each major release, he said. Muglia earlier this year told Computerworld only that Longhorn would emerge no sooner than 2006.

Rumsfeld visits Iraq; abuse probe
unfolds

Rumsfeld visits Iraq; abuse probe
unfolds 05/13/2004 06:18 PM

In Library's Back Pages, a Vivid History
Unfolds

In Library's Back Pages, a Vivid History
Unfolds 05/11/2004 10:35 AM
In a series of businesslike reports filed by city librarians, the Lower East Side of legend breathes again.

Hostage Crisis Unfolds in Russia as
Guerrillas Seize School

Hostage Crisis Unfolds in Russia as
Guerrillas Seize School 09/01/2004 09:46 AM
Heavily armed insurgents seized a school in southern Russia today and herded scores of schoolchildren and others into its gym.

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

Adaptive Poker 2.1

Adaptive Poker 2.1 05/25/2004 01:30 PM
A Texas Hold'em poker game, where the computer learns from you.

Update: Adaptive Equalization

Update: Adaptive Equalization 05/27/2004 09:12 AM
The Photoshop plug-in for enhancing local contrast in images adds a larger preview and an improved blending function.

Consciousness and Adaptive Behavior

Consciousness and Adaptive Behavior 03/14/2005 06:03 PM
A new paper by Richard Sieb attempts to explain how subjectivity could arise and how a subjective system might be more adaptable by utilizing changing points of view to respond to change. In the paper, he proposes that voluntary intentional actions arise from an animal's (or machine's) unique point of view - and if the physical mechanism responsible for the production of the action can be found, it may also explain the point of view (which he identifies with consciousness).

AWF :: Adaptive Website Framework
(1.04+)

AWF :: Adaptive Website Framework
(1.04+) 02/19/2003 10:51 AM
Submission by Paul Maxwell I had been using phpNuke (5.5) for a few months and was becoming frustrated by the time it took me to add content. Additionally performance was not wonderful (in part due to my ISP at the time) and was having trouble in backing-up my site's data.

Adaptive Website Framework (AWF)

Adaptive Website Framework (AWF) 01/15/2003 11:50 AM
Submission by RocketMan Annother CMS (Easy to setup and use, but strong in features...): php, mysql Have a look at Adaptive Website Framework (AWF) I tried about 15 cms tools and sticked to this at last.

Adaptive Dynamic Hardware

Adaptive Dynamic Hardware 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
IST reports, "Visionaries more than half a century ago imagined machines capable of growth, self-repair and self-replication. By digitally mimicking biological tissue's properties, European researchers recently demonstrated a platform for autonomous computer systems." The new platform is the POEtic chip developed by the POEtic Project of the EU IST Program. The chip contains a microprocessor made of reconfigurable cells, similar to an FPGA except that this chip reconfigures itself autonomously in real-time. The chip allows machines to take advantage of the three forces that shape biological life: development, learning and evolution (or ontogenesis, epigenesis and phylogenesis if you're writing a budget proposal). The first shipment of 80 chips will be delivered and tested in autonomous robotic applications this year.

Architectures for Adaptive Mobile
Systems

Architectures for Adaptive Mobile
Systems 07/01/2002 03:39 PM
"(...) the application of adaptive architectures to maximize the user-defined utility of mobile devices within the limits of their available resources." (Rick Kazman - news@sei interactive)

Adaptive Database Installation Toolkit

Adaptive Database Installation Toolkit 06/21/2004 02:07 PM
ADBIT New Release - 0.9 for Linux

Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity in Robots

Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity in Robots 04/15/2005 05:41 PM
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Frédéric Kaplan of the Sony Computer Science Lab have a released a paper (PDF format) online which was presented at the 4th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics. The paper describes a mechanism by which robots can be given intelligent, adaptive curiosity which guides their focus to novel situations in which they can learn. Their system is implemented in a robot simulator using a simple two-wheeled robot which learns about the behaviour of a nearby toy. For more on this research, see Sony's Curiosity Driven Learning webpage.

On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality...

On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality... 01/22/2004 02:14 AM

The latest issue of New Scientist contains an article - "The In Crowd" - that is both profoundly interesting and yet totally unavailable online. Gradually, I'm delighted to say, this situation is becoming more rare and more of a surprise each time it occurs.

Anyway, the article - written by Joan Roughgarden - contends that: "Same-sex relationships are not a biological dead end. They are a glue that helps hold many animal societies together, and a fatal flaw in one of Darwin's central ideas." Here are a few choice chunks of the article that I think encompass most of the article:

Author Bruce Bahemihl, in his book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and natural diversity, has catalogued over 200 vertebrate species in which same-sex genital contact regularly occurs. In some species, homosexuality is not very common - around 1 to 10 per cent of all mating. In others, such a bonobos, homosexual mating occurs as often as heterosexual mating. In some species only males participate, in others only females, in still others both sexes. Sometimes homosexuality is associated with pair bonds that last for years, and in others with short-term courtships. This broad occurrence of homosexuality among vertebrates raises the possibility that if it has a genetic basis at all, it has some broad adaptive significance, and is not an aberrant condition just a few species happen to be stuck with.

In humans, moreover, homosexuality is much too common for it to be considered a genetic aberration. Real genetic diseases are really rare, and their frequency inevitably depends on their severity. A disease that is uniformly lethal must arise anew each generation, so its frequency is equal to the mutation rate, say one in 1 million. A disease that causes only a 10 per cent drop in offspring production (fitness) is 10 times more common than a lethal disease - about one in 100,000. Similarly, a mere 1 per cent drop in fitness leads to a frequency of one in 10,000. If homosexuality has a frequency of 1 in 10, the fitness loss could be no more than 0.001 per cent, which is completely undetectable. A "common genetic disease" is a contradiction in terms, and homosexuality is three to four orders of magnitude more common than true genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease.

All this seems eminently reasonable to me so far. I mean, clearly I'm no expert in evolutionary biology, so my opinion really counts for less than nothing. But on the other hand, as an engaged reader and a gay man I've at least got a legitimate interest in the subject and have found myself relatively compelled by the idea that if homosexual behaviour has a genetic component, that at least some of the genes that result in it must have some adaptive utility. The most commonly cited example is that perhaps a gene might exist that in an heterosexual adult provided a significant reproductive advantage of some kind - but which had the side effect of producing a certain proportion of children who were gay. As long as the cumulative effect was to mean that - on average - the familial line would produce more sexually productive offspring than a line which did not have the gene, then it would be clear that the genes that result in gay people had a reproductive advantage.

Of course while that theory has a certain compelling logic to it, it doesn't (perhaps shouldn't) have anything to say about what it means to be gay in this context. In other words - it makes no statement that homosexual behaviour is itself somehow useful or positive with regard to human behaviour, survival or evolution. Homosexual behaviour then, is not considered adaptively useful.

Now back to Joan Roughgarden's piece (carrying on directly from what was written above):

Indeed, I challenge the presumption that homosexuality leads to any reduction in fitness whatever. Throughout history and across cultures, homoerotic attraction has not precluded heteroerotic attraction. And there is little evidence that people who feel homoerotic attraction have, as a group, any less Darwinian fitness than those who don't. After all, many exclusively heterosexual people do not have offspring either. Even if those with homoerotic attraction did have marginally fewed children, they might make up for it by a better chance of survival - during wars, for example, when homoerotic bonds might lead soldiers to protect one another more vigorously.

So what then, is the adaptive significance of homosexuality? Homosexuality has many uses, much as the ability to speak does. Homosexual contact is a way to communicate pleasure. And I suggest that homosexuality is a social inclusionary trait - that is, it provides animals, including perhaps humans at times, with admission to social groups. It evolves, I suggest, whenever same-sex cooperation helps achieve an evolutionary successful life: to survive, find mates and protect one's young from harm. This plays out in different ways in different sexes and species. Sometimes, as with bonobos, same-sex cooperation provides group security and access to food that females need to successfully rear their young. For others, such as male Savanna baboons and probably some whales, it provides the allies they need to survive conflicts so that they may later mate. But the unifying principle is the same - homosexuality cements relationships that are crucial for a successful life.

At which point, I'm afraid, I think my scepticism comes to the fore. It seems to me that any theory of homosexuality that operates in direct opposition to people's experience of contemporary human sexuality seems to be at least flawed. While bonobo homosexuality might be seen to be useful in the creation of social inclusion, often exactly the opposite occurs in human society. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's classic book Between Men specifically talks about the continual need to disavow sexual components to male homosocial relationships (ie. male-on-male friendship / bonding relationships). We're all familiar with this kind of experience - that the most common and most potent sources of anti-gay tirades are tightly-bound social groups of men. At the very least more is going on in those situations than simple homoeroticism bringing those men together to express solidarity and closeness. Even at our most open-minded, surely we have to state that in those circumstances, the fact that any vestigial or situational erotics have to be so vigorously denied makes it clear that there's a distinction to be drawn between homoerotic behaviour, homosexual behaviour and homosexual identities that is much more complex than anything that Roughgarden supplies us with.

I will of course give her the benefit of the doubt in this case - the article is evidently a truncation of a body of work that no doubt includes a massive set of sample data from which to draw conclusions as well as the applied expertise of a lifetime of training. If I get the chance to read any more of her work, I will make sure that I do so vigorously. But in the meantime, I'm afraid I must remain interested but unconvinced.

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Straight talk on Adaptive Computing

Straight talk on Adaptive Computing 11/18/2003 08:57 PM
CNET Nov 18 2003 8:45PM ET

SMC Expands Enterprise Wireless Solution
Set to Extend Enterprise Networking

SMC Expands Enterprise Wireless Solution
Set to Extend Enterprise Networking 06/05/2005 11:19 PM
New EliteConnect™ 802.11b/g wireless accessories extend network reach with the security, range, flexibility, interoperability and throughput that Enterprise wireless applications demand [PRWEB May 25, 2005]

Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive
Systems

Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive
Systems 11/15/2002 08:43 AM

Adaptive Path: User Experience
Consulting

Adaptive Path: User Experience
Consulting 05/11/2004 05:51 PM
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Adaptive Learning Speeds New
Drug-Screening Software

Adaptive Learning Speeds New
Drug-Screening Software 04/16/2004 11:39 AM
Software created by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute uses a pattern-recognition process called kernel learning to more quickly assess molecules' properties.

adaptive path » 90% of all
usability testing is useless

adaptive path » 90% of all
usability testing is useless 06/16/2004 06:16 PM
When done right, usability testing will improve your Web site and your development process, but the current culture surrounding Web site usability testing is such that it rarely benefits the design

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Ever Wonder Why You Can't Get A Magazine
That's Just For You? Adaptive Systems
and Processes Poised To Go Mainstream

Ever Wonder Why You Can't Get A Magazine
That's Just For You? Adaptive Systems
and Processes Poised To Go Mainstream 06/17/2005 03:17 PM
The next generation of software and media will be centered on adaptation; processes and supporting systems that learn to become more and more useful over time. ManyWorlds Inc., the leaders in the development of adaptive systems and processes, announces an important step toward enabling the “adaptive world”. The results of ManyWorlds' multi-year research and development and associated patent portfolio are now broadly available through a suite of IP licensing programs. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

Over 60 Days, Troops Fought Adaptive
Enemy (washingtonpost.com)

Over 60 Days, Troops Fought Adaptive
Enemy (washingtonpost.com) 06/25/2004 11:48 PM
washingtonpost.com - NAJAF, Iraq -- After a year in Iraq, Lt. Jon Silk and the rest of the Army's 1st Armored Division had tickets home. But before dawn on April 5, he and his platoon rumbled toward this southern city of shrines and cemeteries, headed into war.

Adaptive Cruise Control May Solve
Traffic Jams

Adaptive Cruise Control May Solve
Traffic Jams 07/30/2004 03:51 PM
More and more luxury cars these days are coming with adaptive cruise control -- which is mainly considered a safety feature. The idea is that if you're getting too close to the car in front of you, your car automatically begins to slow down, avoiding the possibility of an accident. However, one of the nice "unintended benefits" of such systems is they may create much more efficient traffic flow. Apparently, if just 20% of the cars on the road had such systems on a normal highway, most traffic jams would simply go away. The article goes into details on how this works, but the basic summary is that most drivers are either idiots or err on the side of caution by braking too hard when someone in front of them brakes, leading to a chain reaction that causes the slow down. With a computer braking more appropriately, the chain reaction has a much smaller impact, allowing traffic flow to continue smoothly. Yet another situation where a technology designed for one purpose, actually has a very useful alternative benefit.

adaptive path » six design lessons
from the apple store

adaptive path » six design lessons
from the apple store 07/14/2004 04:58 AM
Six design lessons from the Apple Store

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