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Meet a few brave people who make a living trying to predict the future...
Last fall students created a program to predict course enrollments and prevent the misallocation of teaching fellows as part of a final project in Computer Science 96, “System Design Projects.” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 told The Crimson in February that the program might be used this fall...
While administrators are not using software to predict course enrollments, they are exploring a variety of other technological tools...
...that, there are no reliable statistics about the extent of offshoring. A report last month by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said that while outsourcing business services is becoming a significant trend, most of it takes place domestically; only 1-2% is done internationally. Others predict a surge. Forrester in August forecast that Europe will lose 1.2 million jobs to offshore service providers by the year 2015. "The fact is that we are in the foothills of a revolution," says Stephen Green, chief executive of HSBC. Such estimates often overlook important nuances. For one thing...
...Economy, Drongo AUSTRALIA As the Oct. 9 election nears, polls show the rivals - the coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard, and Mark Latham's Labor party - neck-and-neck. You might predict that Howard would press his staunch support for the war in Iraq. After all, Latham, 43, has pledged to bring Australia's 920 troops in Iraq home by Christmas. That couldn't be further from Howard's position. In addition to supporting the war, Howard - after the Sept. 9 bombing attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 - renewed his support...