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Google declares war on $2 trillion health care industry

The Google health care die has been cast, it is a $2 trillion dollar declaration of medical intent.Adam Bosworth, Google Vice preisdent Engineering,  is no longer content with "touch-feely" consumer reach-out campaigns to "learn" what the "health care consumer" wants, he is now doing what Google does best: Telling the world how...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Google Search: Is PageRank reliable?

How reliable is Googles beloved PageRank based search algorithm formula?Google blogger Matt Cutts points to a fellow Googler blog post, that of Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. Cutts’ Google shout out warns of self-selection bias in toolbar driven metrics.One of the first commenters at Cutts’ blog, Michael...

Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, Google, Google Software Applications, Search

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Google on Search:'Natural Language works when it isn't'

Is “Natural Language” the magic search bullet that will dethrone the Google search kingdom? Powerset, a search start-up in “semi-stealth mode,” is now licensing Natural Language patents and technology from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center PARC, the New York Times reports: "Powerset hopes the technology will be the...

Tags: Adam Bosworth, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Search, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-09

Google's Adam Bosworth to NYC technologists: Speed rules

I took Google up on its invitation to hear Adam Bosworth, Vice President of Engineering, speak on “Physics, Speed, and Imprecision: What Works and What Doesnt in Software, and Why," at the New York City Googleplex this evening. Bosworth has held senior management positions at Microsoft, including serving as General...

Tags: AJAX, XML, Microsoft Office, Adam Bosworth, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Another Adam Bosworth sighting

Dirson.com reports another Adam Bosworth sighting with the title "Architect, Google Health" -- just like the one found in the attendee list of PC forum. This time he is slated to be a featured speaker at DISA Customer Partnership Conference 2006 on May 4.For those who don't know, DISA...

Tags: Google Health, Google Inc., Health, Adam Bosworth

Blog posts 2006-03-30

Bosworth: Intelligent reaction, not intelligent design

Adam Bosworth, former Microsoft and BEA development guru and now a Google engineering vice president, gave a presentation at the salesforce.com user event that offered a much improved articulation of the notion of continuous improvement and innovation I wrote about my recent post on Microsoft making some of its Office...

Tags: Adam Bosworth

Blog posts 2005-09-13

The MetaDating Game

Marc Canter bought me dinner last night. Does that mean I'm pimping Marqui now? Guess it does.Marc then sprinted back to the hotel for an 8:30 Birds of a Feather session where Dick Hardt finally had enough time and a persistent questioner to explain both the mechanics and the business...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., attention.XML

Blog posts 2005-03-16

The future of search

Adam Bosworth, Google vice-president of engineering, joins The Gillmor Gang to discuss the future of search. Bosworth suggests that the same architectures used to make Web servers more scalable could be used to improve search. Data routers could know about the information located on back-end servers and could query servers asynchronously according...

Tags: Gillmor Gang, serverS, Adam Bosworth

Blog posts 2005-01-18

Where have all the good databases gone

Former Microsoft and BEA and now Google software wizard Adam Bosworth has a controversial blog post on the problems with today's database products, and calls on the open source community to rise up and create the Apache of databases...My message is to the Open Source community that has, so ably,...

Tags: database

Blog posts 2005-01-04

Bosworth on simplicity and complexity

Adam Bosworth's talk at ICSOC04 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing has generated interesting and compelling conversation about the virtues of simplicity versus complexity in building software foundations: "It is an ironic truth that those who seek to create systems which most assume the perfectibility...

Tags: Adam Bosworth, Improv

Blog posts 2004-11-29

Bosworth, BEA and Google

Steve Gillmor speculates on the impact of Adam Bosworth’s sudden exit from BEA and employment at pre-IPO Google. According to Steve, Bosworth's move puts pressure BEA to "complete the work of open-sourcing the Alchemy framework as planned. As with the earlier Beehive contribution, Alchemy’s intelligent caching framework was meant to seed...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Adam Bosworth, Alchemy

Blog posts 2004-07-27

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News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...

Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...

Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up

There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...

Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...

Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare

News items 2008-10-10

Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator

We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...

Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Kernell's prior: In 7th grade he broke into school computer

Hard-hitting news here: Sarah Palin's email wasn't the first time David Kernell applied guesswork to breaking into a computer system, Computerworld reports. The other incident allegedly occurred around 2000, when Kernell was in the seventh grade. Kernell and an accomplice guessed the password to a server...

Tags: Computer, Kernell, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Live Webcast: The 2008 Email Security Benchmarking Report

Email is a critical tool for business communications, but its use is threatened by the growing volume and sophistication of external attacks. Today's best-in-class organizations are realizing significant benefits compared to other organizations, particularly through the use of Software as a Service SaaS security applications. Join this...

Tags: Google Inc., Webcast, E-mail Security, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security

Webcasts 2008-10-07