Indian
Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad
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Indian
Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad
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| Bi-Monthly E-Magazine |
November-December
2004
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Issue
I Volume I
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ITPTSBURGH
- Researchers Tiago V. Maia and James L. McClelland, the Walter
Van Dyke Bingham Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
have completed a study challenging a popular theory that claims
bodily states can guide decision-making when conscious knowledge
isn't available. The study examines the somatic marker hypothesis,
which states that when an individual faces a decision, each
alternative elicits a bodily state – a somatic marker –
that corresponds to an emotional reaction. According to the
hypothesis, these markers influence decision-making and can
guide the individual to make an advantageous choice even in
the absence of conscious knowledge to guide the decision. The
somatic marker hypothesis was proposed by neurologist Antonio
Damasio in his best-selling book, "Descartes' Error: Emotion,
Reason, and the Human Brain."
IBM
is aiming to combine management consulting, advanced mathematical
research, business performance management software capabilities
and deep computing power to help solve some of the most complex
problems facing businesses and government agencies around the
world. The Center for Business Optimization in Somers, NY will
leverage these new capabilities to help companies and governments
manage much more complex and unpredictable business and societal
problems, while at the same time providing leaders of those
organizations with a much more precise and understandable view
of business performance. The Center plans to tackle the uncertainties
and imprecision of managing real-time situations, going beyond
the limitations faced by mathematicians in the past who were
only able to design business models based on historical data
of past events.
India's
top information technology (IT) body said India's booming outsourcing
and IT research sectors face a looming skills shortage and the
nation's universities must train students better to fill the
gap. Kiran Karnik, president of the National Association of
Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), said the body had
begun talks with IT firms, universities and governments about
improving study courses to equip students for outsourcing and
IT research jobs. NASSCOM said in a recent report that India's
outsourcing industry was expected to face a shortage of 262,000
professionals by 2012. Outsourcing contributed 29 percent to
India's total software exports and posted revenue growth of
46 percent to 3.6 billion dollars in the fiscal year to March
2004, NASSCOM figures show. More than 50 multinational companies
such as General Electric have set up their research bases in
India.
General
Motors plans to install a global identity management system
that will provide single sign-on access to applications for
about 500,000 internal and external end users, and Boeing is
in the midst of a similar project -- both aimed at cutting IT
costs and improving user productivity.
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