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NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Software Upgrade a Success NASA's Mars rover Curiosity spent its first weekend on Mars upgrading its software. Upgrading the Curiosity’s software after successfully reaching Mars allowed scientists to align the software’s capabilities with the current tasks the rover faces. |
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Debate: The Danger of "Negative" Requirements Is it advisable to define a system by stating what it shouldn’t do, or should “negatively-framed” requirements be avoided? |
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It's the Relationships, Stupid Relationships—working and personal—are vitally important to successful business analysis. If you don't have them, nothing else much matters. |
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Software Learns like a Human—and for Humanity’s Benefit Union City, CA, startup Vicarious has received a $15 million Series A investment to help them design a visual recognition system that aims to go far beyond what computers have been able to do in the past. Vicarious wants to benefit human lives. |
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Using a Scaled Agile Framework for Big Agile Projects As the software debacles experienced by both the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Knight Capital Group show, large-scale projects can become large-scale problems. Using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) helps steer these big projects in the right direction. |
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CIO: It's a Tough Job, but ... Will It Last? Where the CIO position is heading or even whether it will still be around in a few years is far from a sure thing. Look around, and you’ll see that opinions vary considerably about what the future holds for CIOs. Will it stay the same, split into multiple roles, or disappear completely? |
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QA Engineer: The Happiest Job in America Software quality assurance engineers were recently crowned as having the happiest jobs in America. We look at what factors were used in making this distinction, while looking for other software positions in the top twenty. Did yours make the list? |
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Mobile Wallet Fast Becoming Popular Consumer Accessory Brick and mortar retailers believe quicker and easier is what today’s consumers want and making purchases with a smartphone is the way of the future. Who will be the first to take hold of the mobile payment market? |
