 TEST CENTER
Peering into the future
By Kevin Railsback , InfoWorld Test Center
October 13, 2000
With this issue, the InfoWorld Test Center introduces Test Center Future Watch. These stories will give you a glimpse into the next phases of enterprise computing
IN THIS ISSUE, a new kind of article debuts from the InfoWorld Test Center called Test Center Future Watch. Our top-notch analysts and editors put down their testing tools to evaluate not-quite-ready-for-prime-time technologies that will profoundly influence the ways we work and live in the near future. In each Test Center Future Watch, we will identify an emerging technology or trend, examine the business-related issue it targets and how it may solve that problem, and then discuss the ramifications of that technology.
The ways in which the emerging technology will influence business is our primary focus, and we will also examine the viability of each technology or trend within the business environment.
To launch Test Center Future Watch, we have evaluated 15 technologies and trends. We give you the scoop on speech recognition, quantum computing, natural language processing, content retrieval, text mining, pattern recognition, Bluetooth, Webtops, digital certificates, biometrics, smart cards, e-cash, ubiquitous computing, and synthetic characters. We chose these technologies because of their expected impact on the future of enterprise computing.
These articles take an in-depth look at how burgeoning technologies and technological trends will shape the business environment of tomorrow. This is but our first installment of Test Center Future Watch, and we want to know what technologies you'd like to see us cover. E-mail your suggestions to test_center@infoworld.com.
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