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Global IBM CIO Study reveals today’s CEOs and CIOs strongly aligned on future challenges and complexity

By Guest PostMay 18, 2011Technologyanz cios, australian economy, bi, business intelligence, c suite study series, ceos, chief executive officers, chief information officers, cios, client intimacy, english, global cio, global study, ibm, ibm institute for business value, matt english

*Significant increase in the focus CIOs place on Cloud Computing since 2009*

Sydney, Australia – 18 May 2011: Results from a global study of more than 3,000 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) released by IBM today, reveal that for the first time, CEOs and CIOs are strategically aligned in their thinking around future challenges and complexity, with both groups focusing on insight and intelligence, client intimacy and people skills to drive organisational strategy.

The CIO Study shows that 57 per cent of CIOs anticipate more change and complexity in the next five years while 55 per cent of CEOs anticipate the same, according to the IBM’s 2010 Global CEO study. (more…)

‘Was Doing’ Versus ‘Did’: Verbs Matter When Judging Other People’s Intentions

By Guest PostFebruary 16, 2011Cultureaction, communication, courtroom, criminal law, defense attorney, did, doing, dolores albarracín, english, grammar, gun, imagine, imperfective, innocent or guilty verdict, people, perceptions, perfective, prosecutor, report of a crime, shot, subtle variations, university of alabama, verb form, was shooting, william hart

Your English teacher wasn’t kidding: Grammar really does matter. The verb form used to describe an action can affect how the action is perceived—and these subtle variations could mean the difference between an innocent or guilty verdict in criminal law, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

William Hart, of the University of Alabama, was inspired to conduct the study by research on how people think about narratives. “Research was showing that when you describe somebody’s actions in terms of what they’re ‘doing,’ that action is way more vivid in [a reader’s] mind” than if the action is described in terms of what the person ‘did.’ At the same time, other researchers had found that when people imagine action vividly, they were more likely to think the person performing the action was doing it intentionally. (more…)

‘Music and Caroling an Important Part of Holiday Celebrations’

By Guest PostDecember 14, 20101 commentCultureamerican music research center, americans, beliefs, carol, caroling, celebrate, celebration, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, community activity, country life, dance song, english, frosty the snowman, germans, holiday songs, holidays, jingle bells, joy to the world, midnight clear, music, musicologist, natural, rudolph the red nosed reindeer, secular, silent night, singing, the christmas song, thomas riis

During the holidays, no matter how you celebrate or what your beliefs, music is almost always an important part of the celebration, according to Thomas Riis, a musicologist and director of the American Music Research Center in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Music.

“Singing brings people together and is a natural and comfortable community activity,” Riis said. (more…)

Microsoft Engkoo Helps Teach English to Chinese Internet Users

By Guest PostAugust 26, 20101 commentTechnologybing, champagne, China, chinese, chor, engkoo, english, frank soong, internet, matt scott, ming zhou, natural language, phonetic search, search technology

*Engkoo, a new language assistance search technology released by Bing in China, helps Chinese speakers learn not just English words but the language itself, complete with slang and idioms.*

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 26, 2010 — Teach someone a word and help them once. But teach a search engine linguistics, and it can help people learn an entire language.

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‘Google translate’ is the Best

By ShamsApril 20, 2010Technologychinese, english, french, german, Google, google translate, leo, leo.org, lion master, partly, z.t., zum teil

No doubt about that.

Here’s a ‘tiny’ example. 🙂