University Faculty of Information Technology Green Computing in Kenya Thursday April 10th ‚ 2014 Abstract The main aim of this paper is to look at what green computing is‚ why we should care about it and why it is becoming such a force in today’s world. The paper aims to tackle the advantages of green computing not only to businesses but also to individuals as well in their day to day lives. This paper also aims to look at different green computing implementations in Kenya in order to get an
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Taking On the Trust Steve Weinberg’s “Taking on the Trust” is a book that chronicles the lives of both Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller. Ida Tarbell was born in Pennsylvania to Franklin and Esther Tarbell. While her family was not necessarily poor they were not rich either. At times they had to struggle to make it through while at other times they had money in the bank. One of the interesting things about her family is how strongly religion played a role in their family. Even when they didn’t
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The future of Social Computing?? * Ruchika Arora The article is based on the article John Riedl‚ “The Promise and Peril of Social Computing”‚ IEEE publication‚ Volume: 44‚ Issue: 1‚ Publication Year: 2011‚ Page(s): 93 - 95. The author of the article presents to us the world of social computing‚ its evolution and its scope‚ highlights some interesting developments in this field‚ and evaluates its impact on human lives and social structures‚ in particular. The article leads the deliberation
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vulnerabilities 8 Conclusion Toward a backdoor without permission Post-exploitation Android introduction Android security model Methodology Toward a backdoor without permission Context and objectives Why Android? Most used mobile OS Security often questioned because of many malwares Unofficial markets (warez) Show off how an application without any permission can take control of a smartphone Post-exploitation Android introduction Android security model Methodology
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Identification of a company’s suitability for the adoption of cloud computing and modelling its corresponding Return on Investment Subhas Chandra Misra ∗ ‚ Arka Mondal 1 Department of Industrial and Management Engineering‚ Indian Institute of Technology‚ Kanpur‚ India article info abstract Internet has become pervasive in our daily life and cloud computing is the newest offering as service over the ubiquitous Web. Cloud computing has been considered as a much hyped phenomenon in the IT and business
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What is Soft Computing ? (adapted from L.A. Zadeh) Lecture 1 What is soft computing Techniques used in soft computing • Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that‚ unlike hard computing‚ it is tolerant of imprecision‚ uncertainty‚ partial truth‚ and approximation. In effect‚ the role model for soft computing is the human mind. 1 2 What is Hard Computing? • Hard computing‚ i.e.‚ conventional computing‚ requires a precisely stated analytical model and often a lot of
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Question: Back in Boston‚ Steve has been busy creating and managing his new company‚ Teton Mountaineering (TM)‚ which is based out of a small town in Wyoming. In the process of doing so‚ TM has acquired various types of assets. Below is a list of assets acquired during 2010: Asset Cost Date Place in Service Office equipment $10‚000 02/03/2010 Machinery $560‚000 07/22/2010 Used delivery truck* $15‚000 08/17/2010 *Not considered a luxury automobile‚ thus not subject to the luxury automobile limitations
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Cloud Computing Research Manchester Business School Commissioned by Rackspace Dr Brian Nicholson Dr Ali Owrak Dr Lucy Daly Contents 1. Foreword ................................................................................................................ 1 2. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 4. The economics of cloud computing ......................................
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Distributed System: Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal. A computer program that runs in a distributed system is called a distributed program‚ and distributed programming is the process of writing such programs. Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems
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Turn Taking Because conversations need to be organised‚ there are rules or principles for establishing who talks and then who talks next. This process is called turn-takinandf‚ as aforementioned‚ with their favorite game being Doom. In the book Columbine by Dave Cullen‚ it states that Harris and Klebold‚ according to their attempt at a more grandiose‚ elaborate‚ and terrifying attack than the one they committed‚ wanted to commit the deadliest terrorist attack the U.S. has ever seen‚ by killing
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