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- BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- This is the 3rd excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: T Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots part One Herman Hollerith, then a statistician with the US bureau of the Census formed a company called...
- Tags: Card, IBM Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil
- (This is a re-run, from Dec 16/05.)While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker...
- Tags: Unanswered questions, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- You brought them along, kicking and screaming ... now what?
- If you've been supporting faculty in a university IT setting for any time at all, you've found it necessary to drag some of them, kicking and screaming, into the information age while others have been on the leading edge (some would say 'bleeding edge') from the start, always challenging you and...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Is software a form of applied mathematics?
- Last week's licensing discussions sprouted an interesting, if off topic, thread on a number of computer language related issues. One of the issues raised strikes me as fairly fundamental: is software a form of applied mathematics?Here's how occasional contributor b3timmons stated one side of this argument in response to...
- Tags: Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?
- Writing in Technology Review, Mark Williams explains that the problem with the Transportation Security Administrations watchlists - which famously produce reams of false positives - is based on a very old algorithm called Soundex. Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School...
- Tags: Government technology, Privacy, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Hats off to the father of FORTRAN
- The headline reads John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies. May he rest in peace. FORTRAN, short for "formula translator", was developed in 1957 and fifty years later, it is still of immeasurable value to researchers at universities all over the world. Today, we think of Education...
- Tags: Programming languages, Fortran, computer
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Software patents and the dependency problem
- Ive long taken a dim view of software patents. I wrote this piece as far back as 2003, arguing that Europe should avoid copying the American approach to software patents, both because they are unnecessary to spur innovation and because it would be useful for Europe to demonstrate why. There...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- IBM says, you don't need no operating system
- IBM says, you don't need no operating systemThat's not what I understood..That's what IBM is saying with its Open Client Offering. We will let you run Windows applications, Linux applications and very soon Macintosh applications in a single, seamless environment....Granted it is a press release and so real meat is...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, consulting, OS independence, IBM Corp., operating system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Hurd: HP's founders would be appalled
- Hurd: HP's founders would be appalledGreat, Congress is involvedSeems to me politicians are masters of leaks for political gain. They have a biased interest in this case. Its in Congress' best interest to make sure that people who leak information have the advantage....Its not freedom of speech of the inside...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Insider Trading, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- Captain Cyborg and the problem of evil
- While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker replacement, and those focused on enabling...
- Tags: computer
- Blog posts 2005-12-16
- Microsoft recapitulates IBM
- This is part two of an answer to talkback contributor Carl Rapson's question about why, if dumb terminals were dumb then, would they be smart now? This isn't an easy question, and to get to the answer I need to start with a long digression on history. Please bear with...
- Tags: card, data processing
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- The benefits of patents
- Richard Stallman doesn't like the proposed EU directive which would legalize software patents in the European Union. That's not surprising, because the software libre movement he founded and the software license, the GPL, he wrote aim to remove all entanglements from the software development process, whether based on a secret...
- Tags: benefit, patent, software
- Blog posts 2005-06-21
- Feds approve IBM PC Co. move to Beijing as an era in computer and business history draws to a close
- Feds approve IBM PC Co. move to Beijing as an era in computer and business history draws to a closeModem speedThat was 300 and 1200 BITS not bytes per second.I remember ....I was a freelancing management consultant back in the mid '80's. I carried my entire support system...
- Tags: Modems, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, IBM Corp., WordStar, computer, baud, card
- Discussion threads 2005-03-11
- IBM faces Gypsy holocaust suit
- IBM faces Gypsy holocaust suitI still have an conscienceI think that IBM should be held somewhat responsible for what they provided to the "enemy" during WWII. So what if they were in Switzerland? They were provided a haven to profit from both sides during the war and there is no...
- Tags: Piracy, PRODUCTIVITY, Really Bad Guy, Really Bad Stuff, Gypsy, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-06-23
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