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This article presents a list of conferences on computers to be held in different countries from September 2001 to January 2002. The 24th ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana during September 17-19, 2001. First International Conference on Wireless Internet Technologies will be held in Beijing, China during September 17-19, 2001. LPNMR'01-6th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmotonic Reasoning will be held in Vienna, Austria during September 17-19, 2001. KI-2001-Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Vienna, Austria during September 19-21, 2001. Quality of Future Internet Services (QOFIS'2001) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal during September 24-26, 2001. South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Annual Conference SAICSIT 2001 is scheduled to be held in Pretoria Gauteng, South Africa during September 25-28, 2001. ICCIT'01: International Conference on Computing and Information Technologies will be held in Montclair, New Jersey on October 12, 2001.

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A new White House study suggests the U.S. can regain its former standing in the information technology market by building computers and AI systems based on brain and biological processes. The Office of Science and Technology Policy reports that brain research can influence progress in massive parallel processing, cognitive Al systems, and complex imaging systems. According to presidential science adviser D. Allan Bromley, the 1990s have been federally designated as the "decade of the brain."

The article offers news briefs on computer industry in Great Britain as of February 2019. It mentions that the government with information technology (IT) industry, launched the graduate education program in artificial intelligence (AI). It mentions that health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock is launching the digital strategy in the National Health Services (NHS). It mentions that the government published the guidelines called the Outsourcing Playbook on outsourcing of public sector.

The article presents information on how information technology (IT) departments can rationalise applications and strip cost and complexity out of the business. The prevailing ethos in IT has always been "keep it simple." The benefits of consolidating applications are obvious. It cuts change management requirements considerably because application interdependencies are reduced. Support staff no longer have to deal with as many pieces of software, and training costs fall. Software and hardware maintenance costs can also be slashed, leading to a more efficient IT operation that can concentrate on business goals. According to Peter Stevens, a consultant at PA Consulting, a common mistake has been for IT departments to attempt wholesale consolidations of applications onto the newer technical platforms such as .net, J2EE or best of breed applications. The process of accommodating subsidiaries' requirements to create a consolidated financial application system was worth it from a management perspective. INSET: Case study: Icelandair brings financials in from the cold.

The article discusses whether the different sizes of hardware and functionality introduced by the computer industry's suppliers meet the users' demand. Common sense would predict that a machine that brings together as much functionality as possible would mean fewer devices to carry, and therefore fewer devices that can be lost, that need information synchronisation, management and so on. However, the idea of trying to watch streamed television or films on a two-inch screen does not grab me, nor does a small PC capable of running office applications but with a battery life measured in minutes. If one looks at in-depth, business-important spreadsheets on a PDA, he/she will rapidly decide that a laptop may be heavy and a pain to carry around, but at least it can get some work done. It is not the form factor that firms should be fighting over, it is the offer. Suppliers should be looking at making sure that the functionality package is form-factor-agnostic--that is the way to success.

This presents information on events related British Computer Society. A seminar on the role of IT in business will be held on March 30, 2005. A symposium of Artificial Intelligence Specialist Group will be held on April 6, 2005. The Tom Winter Memorial lecture will be held on April 12, 2005.