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- Forget hackers: Complex networks doomed to Murphy's Law
- There is an interesting story in the New York Times today, "Who Needs Hackers?" by John Schwartz. The article appraises network threats and recent high-profile outages, suggesting that while malicious hacking might be good fodder for disaster movies, the mundane problems inherent in enormously complex software and systems are more...
- Tags: Network, Article, Hacker, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Millennium Performance Problems: Challenges for Performance Management in the 21st Century
- This webcast identifies five very tough problem areas in performance management that need to be addressed. The problems identified are performance visualization, self-measuring applications, the von Neumann bottleneck, the Internet simulator, and quantum computers.
- Tags: Performance, TeamQuest Corp., Performance Management, It Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management
- Webcasts
- A Q&A with Peter Neumann on the many risks facing the enterprise
- Security guru Peter Neumann isn't optimistic when it comes to protecting enterprises with today's solutions. Yet the award-winning scientist says there's still hope if CIOs focus on three key aspects: authentication, authorization, and accountability.If Peter Neumann thought any more about risk, he’d probably be a gambler instead of a computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Howard Baldwin, Peter Neumann, security, best practice
- Technical articles 2002-09-17
- Haskell Is Not ML
- This paper presents a typed calculus IL ("Intermediate Language") which supports the embedding of ML-like (strict, eager) and Haskell-like (non-strict, lazy) languages, without favoring either. IL's type system includes negation continuations, but not implication function arrow. Within IL the authors find that lifted sums and products can be represented as...
- Tags: Springer Science+Business Media, Haskell, IL
- White papers 2006-02-06
- Inside the first personal computer: Kenbak-1
- The Kenbak-1 is considered by many to be the world's first "Personal Computer." The Computer History Museum granted it this designation when they were still located in Boston in 1986. More specifically, the machine represents the first commercially available Von Neumann stored program computing device intended and priced for personal...
- Tags: Boston, computer, designation, Erik Klein, image, Kenbak-1, PC, photograph, Web, Web site, Webmaster
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- When is the ideal date for Programmer's Day?
- September the 13th is celebrated in some quarters as Programmer's Day. In fact, Engadget published an article to commemorate the event. However, the reason that the 256th day of the year, i.e. the 13th of September, is assigned as the Day of the...
- Tags: Computing, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- Have we reached the end of the IT era?
- Is this the end of the IT era? What's next?HP thinks "Business Technology" is the next stage, as I wrote in my blog post: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=446Do you agree? What will this mean for the structure of IT or BT departments?Mark Five is Next!!based on encoding of human thinking, the Hewlett-Packard supercomputer...
- Tags: Middleware, Jason Hiner, Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- 75 words every sci-fi fan should know
- Textbook barons Houghton Mifflin have of late proclaimed 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know, probably in an attempt to shame and terrify the average student into purchasing an appropriate SAT study guide. For those of us who grew up reading science fiction and/or comic books, the list reads...
- Tags: Science Fiction, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Nanotechnology, Wiki, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Why do programmers often fly under the radar?
- While reading Mark Miller's Tekkie blog, I came across a humorous post with funny spoofs of "motivational" posters. It really got me thinking. I am sure you have heard of Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, pioneers in physics and math. You might even be familiar with Edward Teller or Robert...
- Tags: Radar, Programmer, Computer, Productivity, Development Tools, Wiki, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Online Communications, Justin James
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Alan Turing
- Alan TuringI've just watched a drama on the BBC about the life of Alan Turing. Turing, if anyone can claim this, was the inventor of the digital computer. Turing addressed the problem of how to reduce any formula to a set of simple instructions which could be used by a...
- Tags: Alan Turing
- Discussion threads 2005-12-06
- Lock IT Down: Granting users access while maintaining control
- The security paradox: Providing workers enough access to do their jobs, while maintaining enough control over the network to keep it secureMainframes are the technological equivalent of the television show “Father Knows Best”—both represent an idyllic time when life was simpler. Back then, CIOs and VPs of MIS/DP knew all...
- Tags: Howard Baldwin, security
- Technical articles 2002-08-13
- Technology's growing acquisition appetite
- Oracle's acquisition of Siebel and eBay's purchase of Skype are the most recent of many large mergers completed this year. This acquisition boom is driven in part by the notion that large companies are better able than small ones to maintain profit margins and to withstand pricing pressures--so getting...
- Tags: acquisition, acquisition appetite, it management, mergers, profit margin, Sonja Thompson
- Discussion threads 2005-09-15
- Seeking a programming middle ground
- Is it a time for a new computing paradigm?Hi Justin,If I understand you correctly, then you want to tell us that the idea of "virtual" memory is wrong? If "yes", then it is a good starting point for new IT revolution. Does anybody has an idea how we can avoid...
- Tags: Processors, Tzekov, programming, parallel processing, CPU, server
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Geek Trivia: Mother of invention
- Which original ENIAC programmer helped develop COBOL and Fortran? For all those computer geeks out there who will spend yet another Valentine's Day in the presence of a computer rather than a significant other, it's time to change the game. Toss off the shackles of this ...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Gender and diversity, PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Programming languages, ENIAC Eve, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Women, Fortran, Programmer, Programming, Computer, COBOL, Betty Holberton, UNIVAC, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources
- Technical articles 2007-02-13
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