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On the shoulders of genius

George Boole was born in Lincoln, England in 1815 and published The Calculus of Logic in 1848 - almost exactly 100 years after Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum Nothing in modern, science based, computing originated in either publication, but the two set in stone the roots of the research behind...

Tags: Enterprise software, George Boole, Neumann

Blog posts 2006-06-30

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This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to be

This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to beMicrosoft...... is shelling out considerably more than $40 million.If they can [i]"agree to disagree"[/i] over the patent issue so easily then that is obviously not that central to the deal. If it was core item I would expect considerably more rancour.I'm...

Tags: Programming languages, Free trade, payoff, partnership, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Who shapes IT?

Who shapes IT?If historical figures are included......there are others that are perhaps more influential than George Boole, as influential as he was:Charles Babbage: Creator of the first programmable adding machine.Alan Turing: Arguably the founder of modern computer science.Thomas Watson: Longtime IBM CEO, whose company pioneered lock-in techniques used to this...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, MySpace

Discussion threads 2006-07-24

Who shapes IT?

What do Adobe's chief software architect, the man behind MySpace, a 19th-century mathematician and a 21st century futurologist, plus the most hated man in cyberspace all have in common? They are regarded, by ZDNet bloggers, as individuals who exert an especially noteworthy influence on the broad field of information technology....

Tags: information technology

Blog posts 2006-07-24

The man behind MySpace

Tom Anderson, the man behind MySpace, and the ubiquitous friend known as "Tom" to all MySpace users, has created a social phonomenon and brought a revolutionary communication medium to millions of users. Called social networking, this medium allows people to build vast groups of "friends," or other registered users...

Tags: MySpace

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Howard Rheingold about our mobile world

Howard Rheingold is the well-known author of Smart Mobs and many other books describing the evolution of our societies. His last book predicted the transformation of our society into a mobile one. Four years later, and with thousands of posts published on the collective blog organized around this theme, his...

Tags: Howard Rheingold, mobile, telephone

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Dan'l Lewin: Leading Microsoft Emerging Business Development

Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, interacts with a worldwide VC network to surface and nurture emerging venture-capital-backed technology start-ups with the potential to be the “next big things” extending the Microsoft platform, a $10 billion business, and growing.I spoke with Lewin to discuss...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Barrett Lyon: Internet Influencer

The first thing Barrett Lyon will tell you when he gets on stage is his age. At a youthful 27 years old he is rapidly becoming one of the most influential technologists of the day. He is founder of Prolexic Technologies, an Internet hosting service that defended dozens...

Tags: Barrett Lyon, Prolexic Technologies

Blog posts 2006-06-26

Making the Rich Internet Application a Reality - Kevin Lynch

It's difficult to talk about the evolution of the web without mentioning Flash. Over the years Flash has run the gambit from annoying animation, to revolutionary video technology and application framework. Who would have thought during the dark days of the skip intro button that Flash would someday serve up...

Tags: Flash, Adobe Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-23

The most hated man in cyberspace

Richard Stallman. Having covered this space for nearly two years, I have seen more resentment toward Stallman than anyone in the world, even though on the issues he’s right.Stallman, if you don’t know, is the father of GNU, and the "Free Software" movement. He’s not the father of open...

Tags: Richard Stallman, BSD

Blog posts 2006-06-16